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New Kauffman Sketchbook examines changing nature of knowledge
Samuel Arbesman says there’s a regularity to how knowledge changes. “And hopefully that’s the kind of thing that can provide a certain amount of comfort to people,” he says. “I think it also is really exciting that knowledge is changing.” Arbesman, a senior scholar at the Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, discusses the…
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Pipeline applications due Oct. 24, event set for Friday
With the deadline for its first regional class less than a month away, Kansas-based entrepreneurial immersion program Pipeline is providing potential applicants an opportunity to learn a little more about what it offers to entrepreneurs. Pipeline will host an informational networking reception from 4-6 p.m. Friday at the Kauffman Laboratories for Enterprise Creation at the…
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Kauffman Labs releases Education Ventures videos
Videos from the Kauffman Labs Education Ventures Program at The Ewing Muriel Kauffman Foundation are now available on the foundation’s website. The Education Ventures Program on June 7 marked the culmination of a fourth-month program in which 23 aspiring entrepreneurs immersed themselves in the Labs’ intensive, hands-on curriculum …
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Kauffman Labs Venture Showcase: ‘Lifelong Learning’ presentations
We’re onto our last category of the day at the Kauffman Labs Venture Showcase, “Lifelong Learning,” which features five companies. The panelists for this category are: Wil Agatstien – Executive Director Center for Entrepreneurship University of California, Davis; Advisory Group Member, Kauffman …
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Kauffman Labs Venture Showcase: ‘Higher Education’ presentations
Following a lunch keynote presentation by Frederick Hess, PhD, titled “Today’s Context for Education Entrepreneurship,” three of the Labs’ participants shared their reflections of participating in the program. While the other 14 have come out of it with a product to show, these three participants either pivoted drastically on the idea or dropped their …
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Kauffman Labs Venture Showcase: ‘K-12’ presentations
Today, the 16 companies that have been working the past four months in Kauffman Labs’ Education Ventures Program are presenting their work to a panel of experts onstage and an audience at the Kauffman Conference Center. Each founder has eight minutes to present and seven minutes to field questions and …
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Live from Kauffman Labs Venture Showcase
A pool of more than 1,000 applicants was whittled down to 45 finalists, and from there 23 founders of 16 companies embarked on an intensive, four-month journey as part of the Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation’s Education Ventures Program. And those founders didn’t just dip their toes in the water. …
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Startup Open launches second search for globe’s top entrepreneurs
Startup Open, a competition that recognizes startups with high-growth potential, has launched its search for the 50 most promising new startups around the world, to be announced in conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) 2011. The “GEW 50” will be announced on Oct. 15, with those companies subsequently competing for the top honors and prizes.…
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Kauffman Foundation taps PIPELINE as recipient of $800,000 grant
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation on Thursday announced a matching “challenge” grant of up to $800,000 to initiate a regional expansion of PIPELINE …
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Inaugural Kauffman Labs class announced, focus: education ventures
As we wrote about earlier this morning, we’ll begin to officially cover the news items coming out of Kansas City in a few weeks, but leading up to…