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America leads the world in innovation. Great minds constantly are refining ways to produce and deliver existing goods and services, or develop new products and services. Preliminary research shows how integral entrepreneurs are to this process, accounting for many breakthrough products and technologies.
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Making the Most of Creativity
A conversation with Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of MAKE, and general manager of the Maker Media division of O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Kauffman Leans In to Encourage Women to Start Companies
The Kauffman Foundation is partnering with Lean In, a nonprofit organization committed to offering women encouragement and support to achieve their goals. The partnership will help cultivate more balanced teams and more female leaders and entrepreneurs. Learn More
The Kauffman Foundation is partnering with Lean In, a nonprofit organization committed to offering women encouragement and support to achieve their goals. The partnership will help cultivate more balanced teams and more female leaders and entrepreneurs.
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Time.com Features 3-D Contest Winner
Time.com features the 83-year-old winner of a Kauffman Foundation-sponsored competition for his invention that lowers the cost of filaments for 3D printers. Kauffman’s Lesa Mitchell explains how the contest was designed to open access to everyone interested in digital manufacturing innovations.Read the Story
iBridge: The Next Chapter
Seven years after launching and supporting the iBridge Network, the Kauffman Foundation is handing the reins to the Innovation Accelerator Foundation to take the web platform and community to the next stage of growth. Learn More
Seven years after launching and supporting the iBridge Network, the Kauffman Foundation is handing the reins to the Innovation Accelerator Foundation to take the web platform and community to the next stage of growth.
Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT
A Kauffman Foundation study Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT demonstrates the critical role universities play not only in fostering innovation and entrepreneurial growth, but in stimulating the much-needed recovery in regional and global economies.
Assessing Risk and Return: Personalized Medicine Development & New Innovation Paradigm
Gender Differences in Patenting in the Academic Life Sciences
The Knowledge Filter and Economic Growth: The Role of Scientist Entrepreneurship
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New Report Details the Contributions of Immigrants to Cancer Research in America (02/25/13)
More than 40 percent of the cancer researchers at America's top cancer institutes are immigrants, according to a Kauffman Foundation-funded National Foundation for American Policy report released today.
Kauffman Foundation, Lorain County Community College Select 3 Schools to Pilot Entrepreneurship Education, Funding Program (01/31/13)
Startup Ideas Top 10,000 on iStart (11/26/12)
Kauffman Foundation Awards Grant to Michigan State Law for ReInvent Law Laboratory (08/29/12)
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Kansas University Endowment Association
Lawrence, KS | Approved Date: 12/10/2008 | Approved Amount: $8,100,000
Support to establish the Institute for Advancing Medical Innovation at the University of Kansas.
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Kauffman Foundation Leans In to Encourage Women to Start Companies
The Kauffman Foundation is proud to announce its partnership with Lean In, a nonprofit organization committed to offering women encouragement and support to achieve their goals.
The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy
What is the fundamental historical trend of our time? What is driving that trend? A book titled The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Economy promises answers to these vitally important questions.
New Titles from the Kauffman Foundation
A preview of seven new book titles funded by the Kauffman Foundation, from leading scholars on topics related to entrepreneurship and innovation in a wide range of academic disciplines and perspectives.
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