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Advancing Innovation

Exploring New Pathways to Market

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.

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.

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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.
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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

Here or There? A Survey of Factors in Multinational R&D Location

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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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Featured Resources

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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Upcoming Events

Kansas City Maker Faire June 29, 2013, Kansas City, Mo
Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum 2013 November 13, 2013, Palm Springs, California

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