See Also : Universities

$1 Million Grant from Kauffman Foundation Aimed at Making Community Colleges a ‘Front Door’ for Entrepreneurship 

A model for entrepreneurship education and early-stage funding for startups, born in a community college in northeastern Ohio, will make its way to the national stage with the support of a $1 million grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Academic Research into University Entrepreneurship Picks Up Steam, says Kauffman Foundation 

While entrepreneurship may be the hottest ticket in town with six out of 10 adults saying they would like to start a business, the pace of academic research into entrepreneurship also has recently begun showing signs of increased interest and activity, according to a report released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Advancing Innovation 

The Kauffman Foundation has begun working with several universities and other partners to better understand the complexities of innovation in entrepreneurship.

Advancing Innovation Along the Long Tail 

Laura Dorival Paglione, Director, Kauffman Innovation Network, discusses moving away from narrow markets ruled by "the tyranny of the hit" (the old focus on best-sellers) to focus on the "long tail" markets where non-hits and specialty goods can flourish as well.

An Entrepreneurial Vision for Our Nation's Universities 

An interview with Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University, in which he discusses how he has instilled a burgeoning research culture at Arizona State while making sure that the university has had an impact on the Phoenix area and the state of Arizona.

Background on Kauffman Campuses II Grant Recipients 

The recipients of the second round of funding in the Kauffman Campuses program will embark upon an astonishing variety of programs aimed at instilling the spirit and skills of entrepreneurial studies into college life.

Background on Kauffman Campuses II Grant Recipients 

The recipients of the second round of funding in the Kauffman Campuses program will embark upon an astonishing variety of programs aimed at instilling the spirit and skills of entrepreneurial studies into college life.

Beyond Licensing and Incubators 

After years of studying how innovation works (or fails to work) in and around universities, says Lesa Mitchell, Vice President, Advancing Innovation, the Kauffman Foundation is finding emerging new solutions to accelerate innovation and commercialization at universities.

Bio-X: Multidisciplinary Research and Education at Stanford 

When multiple disciplines come together and different perspectives are shared, there's no limit to the collaboration, creativity, and innovation that can occur. Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking thrives. In the essay that follows, John Hennessey describes the success at Stanford University in creating a multidisciplinary approach to research and teaching in the biosciences.

Campus Leaders Share Perspectives 

At the Kauffman Foundation's behest, Dr. Modesto "Mitch" Maidique, president at Florida International, one of the initial Kauffman Campuses, talked with Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), a newly named second-round recipient of a Kauffman Campuses grant.

Can the TTO Manage Its Own Disintermediation? 

Canadian Student and Music Megabusiness Owner Crowned Champion 2009 Global Student Entrepreneur 

Simon Fraser University student Milun Tesovic, founder of MetroLyrics.com, has been named champion of the 2009 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards and the recipient of $150,000 in cash and donated services that will help support his company and development as an entrepreneur.

College Freshmen Show Increasing Interest in Entrepreneurship 

Interest in entrepreneurship among first-year college students has risen over time, a recent study reveals. Trends in Business Interest Among U.S. College Students, which is being released today, bases its findings on data available through the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, which for 40 years has conducted the CIRP Freshman Survey, the most ubiquitous survey of college freshmen in the United States.

Collegiate Inventors Competition Recognizes Top Student Inventors 

The National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation today announced the 2008 finalists of its Collegiate Inventors Competition.  This year's group of finalists includes undergraduate and graduate students from across the country whose inventions show practical applications to meet pressing needs in our society.

Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs 

The World Economic Forum's Global Education Initiative (GEI) report, Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs provides specific recommendations for the academic, public, private and non-profit sectors to collaborate in supporting the development of entrepreneurship ecosystems, in which education is a key driver.

Encouraging Industry-University Partnerships 

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.

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.

Entrepreneurship in US Higher Education 

By making entrepreneurship education available across all disciplines, American college students will become more aware of entrepreneurial activity and its importance, says William Scott Green, Chair of the Kauffman Panel on Entrepreneurship Curriculum in Higher Education.

Entrepreneurship Unleashed In Universities Across The Country 

n its continuing efforts to see entrepreneurship education become a common and accessible campus-wide opportunity, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today announced its second Kauffman Campuses Initiative with a $35 million commitment to colleges and universities throughout the country.

Eureka! Ranch 

Eureka! Ranch applies scientific methods to address the challenges of achieving meaningful uniqueness and help business owners find, filter, and fast-track their innovations.

Facilitating the Commercialization of University Innovation 

In the following paper, we examine an innovative new set of practices associated with the commercialization of university research developed and implemented at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Five U.S. Scholars Selected for First-Ever Kauffman-Singapore Entrepreneurship Program 

Five of America's best and brightest students in science, technology and engineering will participate in a five-month program in Singapore to learn about the Asian market and create successful global businesses based on their innovative ideas.

Foreign National Students in U.S. Plan to Return to Native Countries Post Graduation, Kauffman Foundation Survey Shows 
A Kauffman Foundation study indicates that lessening the number of foreign national students in U.S. jobs due to concerns over political backlash amidst growing American job losses may be detrimental to the economic health of the country by accelerating the return of talented immigrant students to their home countries.

Fundamental Transformations at Research Universities Necessary to Spur Global Entrepreneurial Growth 

The world's boldest universities have a unique opportunity to set the course for the future of global entrepreneurship, according to panelists at the 2008 Kauffman-Max Planck Institute Summit, held June 8-11, 2008, in Bavaria, Germany.

Global Student Entrepreneur Awards Announce Top Students Slated to Compete at 2009 Global Finals 

The Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), the premier competition for undergraduate students running a business while still in school, today announced the top student entrepreneurs from around the world who are scheduled to compete at the 2009 GSEA Global Finals at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri, during Global Entrepreneurship Week. The students represent 18 countries and some of today’s brightest, most innovative and forward-thinking individuals, laying the foundation for economic turnaround across the globe.

HHS Secretary Sebelius Joins Health Care Leaders at Kauffman Foundation to Discuss New Roles in Drug Discovery and Development 

Academic institutions across the United States are playing a critical role in developing life-saving treatments, procedures and innovations, and must be supported by a public policy agenda designed to foster continued growth and investment, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius told a gathering of leaders from the public and private sectors here today.

Higher Education: 2004 Survey of Endowed Positions in Entrepreneurship and Related Fields in the United States 

This report explores the explosive, 71 percent growth in the number of endowed chairs in entrepreneurship and related fields in the United States during the last five years.

Higher Education: An Entrepreneurial Way to Teach 

How a Dose of Reality Can Make Science More Visionary 

E. A. Fitzgerald, Professor of Materials Engineering, MIT, asks How do we know that university scientists are working on the best possible research projects to begin with? The ones with the greatest chances of bearing the most fruit?

How the iBridge Network Can Help: One Story From the Long Tail 

Professor Linda Restifo, a neurobiologist at the University of Arizona, have created a research tool that could accelerate the discovery of drugs for treating intellectual disability.  And the iBridge^SM Web site has accelerated the process of getting the tool into the hands of other scientists.

Improved Immigration Laws Would Help Foreign Student Entrepreneurs Launch U.S. Companies, Create U.S. Jobs, Says Kauffman Paper 

In the paper "Reforming Immigration Law to Allow More Foreign Student Entrepreneurs to Launch Job-Creating Ventures in the United States," released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a team of law and entrepreneurship experts from the University of Missouri—Kansas City (UMKC) outline specific measures to modify U.S. immigration law in an effort to attract and encourage talented international students to launch job-creating ventures in the United States.

Innovation Measurement: Tracking the State of Innovation in the American Economy 

In its report, the Advisory Committee outlines its recommendations to the Secretary of Commerce for steps to be taken by the government, the business community, and government and private sector researchers to foster and improve the measurement of innovation in the economy.

iStart Business Idea Competition Site Collects More Than 1,200 Business Ideas Worldwide 
iStart, a customizable Web-based platform that simplifies how organizations market and administer business competitions worldwide, is picking up speed as students access the site to fulfill their dreams of becoming successful entrepreneurs.

Kansas City Leaders Seek to Create America's Most Entrepreneurial City 

As part of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce's "Big 5" initiative announced in September to propel the region forward and create new jobs, area leaders have declared that Kansas City should be "America's Most Entrepreneurial City." That plan got a big boost today, as the University of Missouri-Kansas City's (UMKC) Bloch School of Management announced it has been named  No. 1 in the world in innovation management research by the Journal of Product Innovation Management, a leading academic journal. In the ranking, which will be published in the March issue of the publication, UMKC tops such prestigious schools as M.I.T., Harvard, Stanford, Michigan State and Texas A&M.

Kauffman Campuses 

The Kauffman Campuses initiative seeks to transform the way colleges and universities make entrepreneurship education available across their campuses, enabling any student, regardless of field of study, to access entrepreneurial training.

Kauffman Campuses II Plan to Embed Entrepreneurship 

In awarding $19.5 million to six universities, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation hopes to change the culture of entrepreneurship education on American university and college campuses.

Kauffman Campuses: Florida International University 

Florida International University (FIU), a Kaufman Campus, submitted a grant request  to implement a university-wide array of entrepreneurship initiatives.

Kauffman Campuses: Howard University 

This proposal represents Howard University's submission to the Kauffman Foundation for funding to institutionalize entrepreneurship at the university. Howard University was an inaugural Kauffman Campus.

Kauffman Campuses: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

The proposal of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an inaugural Kauffman Campus, requests a grant to ensure the continued development and implementation of an ambitious program designed to build entrepreneurial capacity and culture at the U of I and other doctoral extensive institutions.

Kauffman Campuses: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an inaugural Kauffman Campus, submitted a proposal for establishment of the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative to foster a campus-wide entrepreneurial climate, engender entrepreneurial skills and actions, and push the boundaries of knowledge of entrepreneurship.

Kauffman Campuses: The University of Rochester 

The University of Rochester, an inaugural Kauffman Campus, submitted a proposal to make entrepreneurship a comprehensive and defining institutional goal.

Kauffman Campuses: The University of Texas at El Paso 

The University of Texas at El Paso, an inaugural Kauffman Campus, submitted a proposal to initiate an integrative, experiential program that will provide access to entrepreneurship education for students in all six of the University’s colleges.

Kauffman Campuses: Wake Forest University 

Wake Forest University, an inaugural Kauffman Campus, submitted a proposal to make entrepreneurship an integral and enduring part of the liberal arts college experience.

Kauffman Campuses: Washington University in St. Louis 

Washington University, an inaugural Kauffman Campus, submitted a proposal to establish a culture of entrepreneurship throughout campus, making entrepreneurial education accessible to all students and engaging faculty.

Kauffman Foundation Accepting Proposals for 2012-2013 Entrepreneurship Dissertation Fellowship Grants 

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today that the 2012-2013 Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program’s online Request for Proposals is available now through Sept. 19, 2012. The Kauffman Foundation will award up to 15 Dissertation Fellowship grants of $20,000 each to Ph.D., D.B.A. or other doctoral students for the support of dissertations in the area of entrepreneurship.

Kauffman Foundation Analyzes New Approach to Moving University Innovations to Market and Filling Seed-Stage Funding Gap 

An emerging approach to identifying, funding and commercializing university-based innovation is proving quite effective at seeding new companies, according to research conducted by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Max Planck Institute of Economics.

Kauffman Foundation and National Postdoctoral Association Awards Recognize Entrepreneurship as a Valued Career Path for New Scientists 

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the National Postdoctoral Association have announced the call for applications for the 2012 Kauffman Foundation Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur and Emerging Postdoctoral Entrepreneur awards, which recognize exceptional postdocs who are working to commercialize research.

Kauffman Foundation Announces 2009 Young Scholars Program Recipients 

The 2009 recipients of the Kauffman Young Scholars Program that recognizes the achievements of young scholars who are making significant contributions to research in entrepreneurship were presented at the Allied Social Science Associations' annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif. on Jan. 3, 2009.

Kauffman Foundation Announces 2010 Emerging Scholars Program Recipients 

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today the 2010 recipients of the Kauffman Emerging Scholars Program. This program recognizes the achievements of young scholars who are making significant contributions to research in entrepreneurship.

Kauffman Foundation Announces 2013 Recipients of Junior Faculty Fellowship Grants 

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announces the recipients of the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research (KJFF).

Kauffman Foundation Announces First Class of Postdoctoral Entrepreneurship Fellows 

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today that it has selected 13 leading scientific postdoctoral researchers to become the first class of Kauffman Postdoctoral Fellows. The yearlong fellowship program will use entrepreneurship education and mentorship to equip the Fellows to commercialize their scientific discoveries.

Kauffman Foundation Awards Grant to Michigan State Law for ReInvent Law Laboratory 

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has awarded a $150,000 grant to Michigan State University College of Law to support ReInvent Law  a law laboratory devoted to technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. 

Kauffman Foundation Grant to Aid CODE2040 in Inspiring Underrepresented Engineering Students to Choose Startup Path 

As CODE2040 begins recruiting computer engineering students for its 2013 summer Fellows Program, its efforts will be bolstered by a $330,000 grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Kauffman Foundation Grant to Grow and Expand University of Miami's Breakthrough Entrepreneurship Career Model 

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today that it has awarded a grant to the University of Miami to help sustain and grow The Launch Pad, a unique career center program that helps students explore and launch new firms while they are still in school, before they have other commitments such as mortgages and full-time jobs.

Kauffman Foundation Grant to Olin College Creates Award Program Highlighting Student Contributions to Solving Major World Problems 

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has awarded a grant to Olin College of Engineering to fund an award program highlighting outstanding student contributions to solving the major challenges facing the world today.

Kauffman Foundation Names Panel of Top University Educators 

Seeking to advance entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today announced the formation of a multidisciplinary panel of distinguished scholars who will provide recommendations for a comprehensive approach to teaching entrepreneurship to college students.

Kauffman Foundation Researchers Offer New Approaches in Speeding Transfer of Technology From University Labs to the Marketplace 

The emphasis among universities to reap big financial rewards through licensing and patenting innovation developed by research scientists is actually impeding the development of new technologies and may be masking the importance of other means of knowledge transfer, according to researchers at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Kauffman Foundation Study Finds MIT Alumni Companies Generate Billions for Regional Economies 

A Kauffman Foundation study released today 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.

Kauffman Foundation to Accept 2012 Nominations for Junior Faculty Fellowship Grants 

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today that the nomination period will open on Nov. 7 for the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research (KJFF). The Foundation will award up to seven Junior Faculty Fellowship grants to junior faculty members in the United States whose research has the potential to make significant contributions to the body of literature in entrepreneurship. Each Fellow's university will receive a grant of $40,000 over two years to support the research activities of the Fellow.

Kauffman Foundation, Lorain County Community College Select 3 Schools to Pilot Entrepreneurship Education, Funding Program 

As the nation's economy continues its sluggish recovery, community colleges have emerged as important engines for entrepreneurial activity and job creation. An innovative new program, created and proven in a community college in northeastern Ohio, is hitting the road to help schools and the communities they serve to launch and grow technology-based startups.