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A wide-angle photo of Baghdad, Iraq, shows dozens of people walking down a city street holding umbrellas to block the sun. A building in the background features a large banner image of an astronaut.

To mark the 15th annual Global Entrepreneurship Week, Global Entrepreneurship Network President Jonathan Ortmans shares what observing ecosystem builders across the world can teach us here at home.

Kansas City entrepreneurs sit on a panel on stage in front of a live audience. From left to right: Michael Carmona, Ruben Alonso, Jackie Nguyen, Samuel Morris, and India Wells-Carter.

A panel discussion offered insights from local entrepreneurs as well as promising developments in equitable access to financing and technical support needed for entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses in the Kansas City.

Video still from the 2022 October Issue Forum "Findings from the NORC Entrepreneurship in the Population Survey"

Are you interested in the landscape of entrepreneurship in your local community? Watch this Data Dive into a new survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago and funded by the Kauffman Foundation. NORC scholars discuss their first-year findings as part of a 5-year, cross-sectional, nationally representative survey designed to capture an accurate measure of entrepreneurship status among the U.S population.

A statue of a man in front of a brick college building with an inscription that reads: "James Edward Shepard 1875-1947, Founder & President, North Carolina College at Durham 1910-1947"

From banking to higher education to the U.S. Department of Energy, Dr. Henry McKoy is always working to use the power of entrepreneurship to improve people’s quality of life.

A Black entrepreneur wearing pink teardrop earrings talks with their hands.

Ron Busby, Sr., president and CEO of U.S. Black Chambers, Inc., discusses the state of Black business, how policy can impact a more equitable economy, and what’s making him optimistic about the future.

A cohort of sixteen entrepreneurs with disabilities part of the 2Gether-International accelerator program sit around a long table inside a coworking space.

2Gether-International Founder and CEO Diego Mariscal says there is no inclusive entrepreneurship or economic development without disabled founders.

A panel of five entrepreneurship leaders sit on a stage in front of a live audience answering questions. Behind them is a screen that reads "Clinton Global Initiative, 2022 Meeting"

Kauffman Vice President of Entrepreneurship Philip Gaskin leads a Clinton Global Initiative panel discussion on supporting underserved entrepreneurs.

Increasing access to capital to help all entrepreneurs reach their full potential.

A video still from the September 2022 Entrepreneurship Issue Forum, "Kauffman Entrepreneurship Forum: The Power of Partnership"

This forum highlights six research teams from Kauffman’s Community Engaged Research Cohort who share their experiences in designing research with partnerships in mind, forming strong community partnerships, as well as the challenges or pitfalls that other researchers should be aware of before engaging in this approach to research production. Watch the full forum below.

The front page from the Trends in Entrepreneurship brief: "Who is the Entrepreneur?"

This infographic highlights trends in the share of new entrepreneurs in the United States between 1996 and 2021 by demographic groups – including sex, race and ethnicity, and nativity.