This working paper, authored by leading experts Professors David Blumenthal, Eric Campbell, and Greg Koski of Harvard University, focuses on the implications for university, government, and industry relationships. In particular, the paper pays special attention to this issue in the context of emerging drug discovery and development practices in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

The data from both the Baseline and First Follow-Up Surveys provide an understanding of how businesses are organized and operate in their first two years of existence (2004 and 2005), and provide some indicators of survival and growth.

Innovation drives economic growth. Economic growth leads to longer, healthier lives by transforming yesterday’s luxuries into better, cheaper, and more efficient goods and services. University research is a key component of our nation’s innovative capacity. In an increasingly dynamic and global economy, the institutional infrastructure is inefficient at moving university innovations to the marketplace.  University […]

More than one million skilled immigrant workers, including scientists, engineers, doctors and researchers and their families, are competing for 120,000 permanent U.S. resident visas each year, creating a sizeable imbalance likely to fuel a “reverse brain-drain” with skilled workers returning to their home country, according to this report. The situation is even bleaker as the number of employment visas issued to immigrants from any single country is less than 10,000 per year with a wait time of several years.

This report tracked the educational backgrounds of immigrant entrepreneurs who were key founders of technology and engineering companies from 1995 to 2005 shows a strong correlation between educational attainment (particularly in science, technology, engineering and math) and entrepreneurship.

This Kauffman Foundation-sponsored report identifies which Kansas school districts are maximizing their resources and how less efficient districts can make improvements.

This study was the first in a series examining the importance of immigrant entrepreneurs to the U.S. economy.

Male academic scientists in the life sciences secure patents at more than twice the rate of their female colleagues, according to an analysis sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.