H-1B temporary visas have been an essential avenue for allowing high-skilled foreign nationals to work in America, according to a Kauffman Foundation-funded National Foundation for American Policy report.

Schools seeking to boost parental involvement will need to tailor their approaches to match parents’ differing views and concerns, according to a new report funded by the Kauffman Foundation.

As the unemployment rate fell in 2012, another economic indicator dropped too: the overall business creation rate. According to the annual Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, the 2012 rate declined slightly from 0.32 percent of American adults per month starting businesses in 2011 to 0.30 percent in 2012.

This, the second-annual Thumbtack.com Small Business Friendliness Survey showed that Utah, Alabama, New Hampshire, Idaho and Texas rated as the top-five friendliest states for small business.

In what some might consider an ironic twist, technology seems to play a lesser role in building a local entrepreneurial community for startups than good old-fashioned face-time and word of mouth.

More than 40 percent of the cancer researchers at America’s top cancer institutes are immigrants, according to a Kauffman Foundation-funded National Foundation for American Policy report released.

Startup Visas would unleash a torrent of entrepreneurial energy among foreign-born individuals in the United States, according to a white paper released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

How does a newly formed nonprofit organization tasked with helping entrepreneurs across America effectively serve startups that are in different places, in different industries and with wildly different needs? Region by region, is the central lesson this white paper.

The studies examined geographic trends of firms included in the 1982 to 2010 Inc. 500 lists to analyze for the first time how regional characteristics are associated with high-achieving companies and innovations.

Potential job creators – U.S. small business owners – do not view high tax rates as the biggest barrier to their success; it’s the complexity of the tax code that they find most troublesome. Other key concerns they have include overly complicated regulations and licensing requirements.