The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship is a collaborative effort between the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Princeton University Press, and the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at New York University. The book series features works by leading scholars on topics related to entrepreneurship and innovation from a wide range of academic disciplines and perspectives.
Books in the series include:
The Founder's Dilemmas
Using a data-driven approach not found in other startup books, in The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, author Noam Wasserman brings academic rigor to the real-world questions that challenge and puzzle entrepreneurs throughout a startup's development. |
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Solomon's Knot
Robert D. Cooter and Hans-Bernd Schäfer propose a legal theory of economic growth that details how effective property, contract, and business laws help to unite capital and ideas. They also demonstrate why ineffective private and business laws are the root cause of the poverty of nations in today's world. |
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Josh Lerner's extensive look at the way governments have supported entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across decades and continents. |
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The Entrepreneurial Group
Marin Ruef's sociological analysis arguing teams, not individuals, are the leading force behind entrepreneurial startups. |
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The Invention of Enterprise
Leading economic historians David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, and William J. Baumol's exploration of the entrepreneur's role in society from antiquity to present. |
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The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship
William J. Baumol's framework for a new kind of microtheory that reflects the importance of an entrepreneur's ideas and practices to economic growth and prosperity. |
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The Venturesome Economy
Amar Bhide's examination of how advances made abroad enhance prosperity at home and need not be feared. |
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