Research and Policy

Understanding and Advancing the Field

To develop effective programs and help inform policy that will best advance entrepreneurship and education, we must determine what we know, commit to finding the answers to what we don’t, and then apply that knowledge to how we operate as a Foundation. Our research is contributing to a broader and more in-depth understanding of what drives innovation and economic growth in an entrepreneurial world.

Robert Litan, vice president of Research and Policy

Insights

  • 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.

Highlights

  • The US Census Bureau provides new insight into the dynamic lifecycle of employment in new and existing businesses through its Business Dynamics Statistics.

  • The Law, Innovation and Growth initiative is a $10 million, five-year program to support research by leading legal and economic scholars on how best to shape the U.S. legal system so that it promotes innovation and growth.

  • robert_litan_sm.jpgRobert Litan, vice president of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation, discusses the 2008 New State Economy Index on American Public Media's "Marketplace."

  • National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 

    Cambridge, MA | Approved Date: 3/11/2008 | Approved Amount: $2,938,925

    Support research by the Entrepreneurship Working Group, the Innovation Policy and the Economy Working Group, and the Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

  • Educational Broadcasting Corporation aka Thirteen-WNET 

    New York, NY | Approved Date: 7/7/2008 | Approved Amount: $500,000

    Support a television series on the history of global finance titled, "The Ascent of Money."

  • President and Fellows of Harvard College aka Harvard University

    Cambridge, MA | Approved Date: 5/23/2008 | Approved Amount: $450,000

    Support Harvard University's Law School research project on law, innovation, and economic growth.

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Featured Resources

  • Venturesome Economy book thumbnailMany warn that the next stage of globalization—the offshoring of research and development to China and India—threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. But in The Venturesome Economy, acclaimed business and economics scholar Amar Bhidé shows how wrong the doomsayers are.

  • 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.

  • A new tool to empower research-based decision-making on government policies involving entrepreneurship has been developed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), with funding and cooperation from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

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