UCEA Joint Regional Conference

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UCEA Joint Regional Conference

• Judith Cone
• Vice President Entrepreneurship
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

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Kauffman Foundation

• Founded by Ewing Marion Kauffman, successful
  Kansas City entrepreneur
• 2.3 billion in total assets
• Program focus entrepreneurship and education

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www.kauffman.org
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The Kauffman Foundation Agenda

• Economically independent individuals who are
  engaged citizens, contributing to the improvement
  of their communities.
• By advancing
• Educational achievement
• Entrepreneurial success

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The Education Agenda
Advancing Educational Achievement

• Focus on science and math.
• Disadvantaged children.
• Kansas City as target audience.

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Kauffman Scholars
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The Entrepreneurship Agenda

• Advancing Entrepreneurial Success

Awareness
Capacity
Environment

• Build awareness in the general public about the
  benefit of entrepreneurship to society.
• Expose children, youth, college students, and
  adults to the opportunity and rewards of
  entrepreneurship.

• Educate the next generation of entrepreneurs who
  will start, grow and sustain innovative
  enterprises.
• Close performance gap for women and minorities.
• Focus on science and engineering innovations.
• Encourage people to give back to their
  communities.

• Advance the understanding of entrepreneurship
  through research.
• Encourage a supportive policy environment.
• Improve the availability and quality of service
  providers.
• Promote access to capital.
• Increase movement of innovation to the
  marketplace.

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Awareness
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Youth Entrepreneurship
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Capacity
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Knowledge, Training and Business
Development

• FastTrac
• eVenturing
• Collaborate with Entrepreneur-support
  organizations (ESOs)

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Resource for Support Groups

• Practical, hands-on combined with theory
• Entrepreneur led
• Classroom and blended e-learning
• Training the experienced entrepreneur to share
  knowledge and lead other entrepreneurs
• Facilitation skills
• Adult learning techniques
• National network of over 300 partners
• Brand recognized

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eVenturing for Entrepreneurs
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Higher Education

• Educate students
• Faculty development
• Curriculum - Blended e-learning Planning the
  Entrepreneurial Venture
• Build research in field
• Ensure entrepreneurship is respected field
• Get innovations to entrepreneurs market
• Entrepreneurship is campus-wide opportunity

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• Campus-wide entrepreneurship
• Kauffman Campuses Initiative I -
• 25M plus 75M in matching funds
• 8 schools over 5 years
• Reach 125,000 students/year

• Florida International University
• Howard University
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• University of Rochester
• University of Texas - El Paso
• Wake Forest University
• Washington University in St. Louis

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• Campus-wide entrepreneurship
• Kauffman Campuses Initiative II -
• 35M plus 210M in matching funds
• 11 schools/groups over 5 years
• Invited to submit proposals, selection in
  December
• Reach 310,000 students/year

• Arizona State University
• Brown University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Georgetown University
• New York University
• Northeast Ohio Schools
• Purdue

• Syracuse University
• University of Maryland-Baltimore County
• University of North Carolina System
• University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Women and Minority Entrepreneurship

• Urban Entrepreneur Partnership
• National Urban League
• Business Round Table
• Kauffman Foundation
• White House
• Research
• The Entrepreneur Next Door
• Minorities and Venture Capital A New Wave in
  American Business

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Environment
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Giving Back to Entrepreneurship
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Research
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Encouraging Young Scholars to Engage in
Entrepreneurship Research

• Doctoral Consortia
• Academy of Management
• Babson-Kauffman Research Conference
• Case Western Reserve University
• University of North Carolina Women/Minorities
  Boot Camp
• Kauffman Prize for Distinguished Research in
  Entrepreneurship
• Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program

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The Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for
Distinguished Research in
Entrepreneurship
Medal depicts Joseph Schumpeter and Maximilian
Weber
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The Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for
Distinguished Research in
Entrepreneurship
Toby Stuart Harvard Business School Professor
Medal depicts Joseph Schumpeter and Maximilian
Weber
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Advancing Innovation(Tech Transfer)

• Research
• NCIIA National Collegiate Inventors
  Innovators Alliance
• Knowledge mobilization
• New Models
• Kauffman Innovation Network - iBridge

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Advancing Innovation Ecosystem
Traditional Office Management (Tech Transfer
Database Software)
Supply-side Management (researcher portal)
Demand-side Management (End-users industry and
academic)
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Access to Capital and Markets

• Angel investing
• Angel Capital Association
• Guidebook for Angels Angel Investment Groups,
  Networks and Funds A Guidebook to Developing the
  Right Angel Organization for Your Community
• Foreign Affairs article
• Building Entrepreneurship Economies, by Carl
  Schramm

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Kauffman National Angel Network
Association of Angel Groups
Member Locations Provisional Member
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Ewing Kauffman

• Believed in empowering others through education
  and entrepreneurship.

His legacy lives on..