The Keys to Our Entrepreneurial Future

Entrepreneurs create. They innovate. They employ. They are vital to
the success of every economy.

Ewing marion Kauffman wanted
his foundation to advance entrepreneurship and, in doing so,
enhance living standards for all Americans.

The Kauffman Foundation supports high-quality research that puts entrepreneurship “on
the map” for scholars and policy makers. Our multi-pronged strategy to bring about this
result includes:

• grants to top scholars at some of America’s leading universities;

• construction of new, more complete data sets for these researchers to analyze;

• creation of a new “Kauffman Prize” awarded to an academic researcher under the age
of forty who, in the judgment of an independent board of researchers, has published the
best work in entrepreneurship (the prize and its first recipient, Professor Scott Stern of
Northwestern University, are described in greater detail on page 20);

• funding of doctoral dissertations in entrepreneurship and research training seminars to help
encourage a new generation of entrepreneurship researchers;

• creation of the Entrepreneurship Research Portal (www.kauffman.org/research) to link social
networks and serve as a "commons" for locating relevant studies, and posting events and
deadlines; and

• hosting “scholars in residence” at the Kauffman Foundation, who will pursue their own
work while helping us guide research dollars where they will be most productive.

Carl J . SChramm
President and CEO
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Full Report: http://research.kauffman.org/cwp/ShowProperty/webCacheRepository/Documents/Research__Policy_Singles.pdf