This report shares the findings of an audit conducted across thirty school districts in which the state of science labs was assessed. The audit was conducted by SuccessLink, with funding of the project from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. This study was conducted as part of the Kauffman Foundation’s multi-year agenda to improve student achievement in mathematics, science, and technology subjects in the Greater Kansas City region.

Newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau—the Business Dynamics Statistics—allow unprecedented tracking of business dynamics for U.S. firms and establishments. This is one of several BDS briefings to be released highlighting key features of this new data.

This paper examined the question: to what extent is a company’s founding date—with a particular focus on company cohorts from weak economic periods—related to its eventual financial success?

At the 2008 Kauffman-Max Planck Institute Summit, more than a dozen speakers from Europe, the United States, and Israel, representing some of the finest institutions and freshest thinking on the planet, convened to explore in depth the ways research universities can foster entrepreneurship in the societies around them. The result is this unprecedented volume of essays and discussion synopses, which provides ideas and practical examples for the entrepreneurial research university.

This study details parents’ and students’ current thinking about Math, Science, and Technology education and their satisfaction with the existing curriculum which most experts see as vastly below world-class standards.

Based on the experience of accomplished teachers, this study offers new solutions for Improving Student Learning through Strategic Compensation. Published by theCenter for Teaching Quality (CTQ), the report’s recommendations are designed to acknowledge and reward professional work of teachers and meet the needs of the students, families and communities they serve.

The Introduction of the Report: Higher education is basic to the future of American life. The nation’s ability to prosper and to thrive in an increasingly knowledge-based global society and economy depends on our having a progressively well-educated population. The values and practices of pure research—discovery, originality, innovation—shape and motivate American university learning. The American […]

This study of more than 200 multinational companies across 15 industries, mostly headquartered in the United States and Western Europe, finds that emerging countries such as China and India will continue to be major beneficiaries of R&D expansion over the next three years as companies seek new market opportunities, access to top scientists and engineers, and collaborative research relationships with leading universities.

A compilation of studies on teacher quality.

While the current economic turmoil arouses anxiety and concern over job losses and business failures, this research shows that the “churning” of jobs and businesses also sows the seeds for future growth and productivity gains. New firms play a vital role in the process that links churning to productivity gains.