GOVERNMENT IS DOING IT ALL WRONG
State and local governments are going about it all wrong in trying to foster entrepreneurship, according to a new report from the Kauffman Foundation. Public venture capital funds and incubators are...
View ArticleCAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP POWER DETROIT?
No city is testing the economic and civic potential of entrepreneurship like Detroit. America’s greatest urban failure is pinning its hopes on new businesses and new approaches. There are definite...
View ArticleWHY DURHAM EXCELS AT ENTREPRENEURSHIP
For two years in a row, Google for Entrepreneurs Demo Day has been won by a startup based in Durham, N.C.. Durham, one point in North Carolina’s Research Triangle, has been drawing a lot of attention...
View ArticleIS CALIFORNIA OVER?
By Joel Kotkin NewGeography.com California has met the future, and it really doesn’t work. As the mounting panic surrounding the drought suggests, the Golden State, once renowned for meeting human and...
View ArticleREMAKING ROCHESTER
By Neal Ungerleider Fast Co. One of the world’s best-known hospitals has a problem. The Mayo Clinic is located in the small city of Rochester (pop. 111,000), about a two-hour drive from Minneapolis,...
View ArticleBALTIMORE’S BET ON MAKER SPACES
By Anthony Flint The Atlantic/CityLab It was some tough timing for urban planner Andy Cook as he lined up a tour of vacant industrial properties in Southwest Baltimore late last month, trying to drum...
View ArticleWHAT CITIES CAN DO TO HELP ENTREPRENEURS
By Jonathan Ortmans Kauffman Foundation Headliner data no longer impresses startup community leaders examining alternative policy levers for building city ecosystems for entrepreneurs. City decision...
View ArticlePHILLY BETS ON IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURSHIP
By Joseph Erbentraut Huffington Post There’s a good reason Philadelphia is continually cropping up on all of those lists of America’s best cities. While others are seeing their populations decrease or...
View Article4 WAYS CITIES CAN BOOST ENTREPRENEURSHIP
By Josh Russell and Jason Wiens Kauffman Foundation City leaders across America understand that entrepreneurship is key to the success of their economies. That is the message from the 2015 Local...
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