Growing Entrepreneurial Economies

Economic growth requires continued entrepreneurial innovation and expansion. To develop effective programs and help inform policy that advances entrepreneurship, we add to our empirical research the insights and networks of others also interested in expanding this important driver of growth. Through these initiatives, the Kauffman Foundation seeks a better understanding of the policies that best promote the formation and growth of high-impact firms at international, national, state, and regional levels.

Initiatives

  • The Angel Capital Education Foundation (ACEF), founded by the Kauffman Foundation, is a charitable organization devoted to education of angel investors and to collecting and disseminating data and information on angel investors and angel investing groups.

  • The Business Dynamics Statistics is a data series that tracks the annual changes in employment for growing and shrinking businesses.

  • Because of their common interests in global entrepreneurship and economic growth, the Kauffman Foundation and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) work together on a number of projects.

  • On March 11-12, 2012, the Kauffman Foundation hosted the International Research and Policy Roundtable in Liverpool, U.K. in the context of the Global Entrepreneurship Congress. Experts from around the world were invited to submit papers on a range of topics related to high-growth entrepreneurship. Out of almost 200 abstracts submitted, 12 authors were invited to Liverpool to present papers covering a range of geographies and themes.

  • Expeditionary Economics (EE), in the view of the Kauffman Foundation, is a framework for thinking about how to stimulate economic growth in post-combat/post-catastrophe zones where the American military is about to perform, is performing, or has concluded a mission.

  • ERPN LogoThe Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Network (ERPN) is an online network sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation and the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

  • Beginning in January 2010, the Kauffman Foundation tapped the insights of America's top economics bloggers in a series of quarterly surveys.

Highlights

  • Despite ongoing security challenges, the Afghan private sector has enormous opportunity for development and growth and will be a significant determinant to long-term stability in the country, according to the policy brief Afghanistan's Willing Entrepreneurs: Supporting Private-Sector Growth in the Afghan Economy, which was funded by the Kauffman Foundation.

  • Bloggers highlightSome of the country's most widely read economic bloggers, who have built loyal Web audiences by offering in-depth economic analysis and provocative commentary, share their insights in a newly released video produced by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

  • The Kauffman Foundation has funded a series of studies to examine the economic contributions of skilled legal immigrants in the United States, the obstacles they face with the U.S. immigration system, and what the implications are for the United States.

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