Emerging Scholars

The Kauffman Foundation funds a series of programs and initiatives designed to support the overall goal of promoting entrepreneurship as a legitimate field of academic study. By assisting talented emerging scholars in their efforts to earn their Ph.D., encouraging early-career research, and recognizing ground-breaking research, the Kauffman Foundation is encouraging the best and the brightest to focus their academic careers on entrepreneurship. These individuals will go on to teach and research entrepreneurship throughout their careers.

Initiatives

  • The Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program is an annual competitive program that awards 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.

  • The Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research is a new annual program recognizing junior faculty who are beginning to establish a record of scholarship and exhibit the potential to make significant contributions to the body of research in the field of Entrepreneurship.

  • As a tribute to Ewing Marion Kauffman and his entrepreneurial work, the Kauffman Foundation established the Kauffman Prize Medal in 2005 to inspire promising young scholars to contribute new insight into the field of entrepreneurship.

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