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.

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Lesa Mitchell, vice president of Advancing Innovation

Insights

  • Our nation’s universities produce some of the most important basic and applied research in the world, contributing to America’s competitiveness and prosperity in the global economy. University spinoff companies have the potential to become high-growth firms, in some cases creating entire new industries that not only change our lives but also generate hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Highlights

Featured Resources

  • john_tyler_200In an article published in the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, Kauffman Foundation General Counsel John Tyler exposes the absent and weak links between vision, policies and practices of universities and federal policy for advancing innovations.

  • TB cover 2009The Kauffman Thoughtbook is the flagship communication piece for the Kauffman Foundation. The Thoughtbook serves as our annual report. It tells the story of the Kauffman Foundation through essays written by our associates at the Foundation and the influential thought leaders we work with to advance educational achievement and entrepreneurial success.

  • The Engineering Advisory Committee Subcommittee on Industry-University Partnerships issued a report, Encouraging Industry-University Partnerships, that recommends strategies to strengthen National Science Foundation efforts to encourage industrial partnerships that advance research and promote technology innovation.

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