Entrepreneurship

Paving the Way to Success

The Kauffman Foundation is working to further understand the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, to advance entrepreneurship education and training efforts, to promote entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and to better facilitate the commercialization of new technologies by entrepreneurs and others, which have great promise for improving the economic welfare of our nation.

Bo Fishback, vice president of Entrepreneurship

Insights

  • Bill GreenEntrepreneurs renew society by constantly looking for opportunities to make products, institutions and practices better, says Bill Green, Senior Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of Miami.

Highlights

  • Econonomic Future Just Happened coverA new study, The Economic Future Just Happened, found that more than half of the companies on the 2009 Fortune 500 list were launched during a recession or bear market, and that these new firms steadily recreate the economy, generating jobs and innovations.


  • Kansas City area entrepreneurs had the opportunity to hear U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke give the new administration's perspective on innovation and the economy in a meeting held at the Kauffman Foundation. The event was part of a nationwide listening tour in which the Secretary is asking America's entrepreneurs and business leaders for their ideas about how Commerce can help them meet the challenges of the 21st Century economy.

Featured Resources

  • The Ascent of Money, a PBS series produced with funding from the Kauffman Foundation, tells the compelling history of money, credit, bonds, stocks, insurance, real estate, globalization, hedge funds, computer models of investing, and behavioral finance.

  • Global Entrepreneurship Week Hosts from 55 countries gathered in at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri, for the first Global Entrepreneurship Congress from March 9-11, 2009 to share ideas from the 2008 Global Entrepreneurship Week and begin preparations for Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009.

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