EnGen Educator Resources

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

This is an excellent resource for any service providers, educational institutions, and other organizations. looking for funding to support entrepreneurial development.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) provides a full listing of all Federal programs available to State and local governments (including the District of Columbia); federally-recognized Indian tribal governments; Territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi- public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.

https://cfda.symplicity.com/index?s=main&mode=list&tab=list

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Kauffman Panel on Entrepreneurship Curriculum in Higher Education

The Kauffman Panel on Entrepreneurship Curriculum in Higher Education – a multidisciplinary panel of distinguished scholars - provide recommendations for a comprehensive approach to teaching entrepreneurship to college students. The report is online and available for download.

In January 2006, the Foundation formed the Kauffman Panel on Entrepreneurship Curriculum in Higher Education – a multidisciplinary panel of distinguished scholars who will provide recommendations for a comprehensive approach to teaching entrepreneurship to college students.

Through the Panel, the Foundation seeks to create a framework that becomes the gold standard for an exemplary university-level educational program in entrepreneurship. Though entrepreneurial activity has played a dominant role in the U.S. economy for decades, the study of entrepreneurship is relatively new to higher education – and what is taught is not consistent from institution to institution.

The Kauffman Panel’s charter will be to review best-practices and develop a well-articulated common set of principles and skills for entrepreneurship that can be taught. Such a canon will significantly accelerate the rate at which students become aware of entrepreneurial activity, its importance to our economy and society, and the extraordinary future opportunities it offers.

To assist in developing the new curriculum guidelines, panel members will evaluate relevant research about the process of successful business formation and will review what has been learned in the many existing programs on entrepreneurship under way throughout the United States.

The Panel's report on Entrepreneurship Curriculum in Higher Education is available online:

http://www.kauffman.org/entrepreneurship/entrepreneurship-curriculum-in-...

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Proof of Concept Centers: Accelerating the Commercialization of University Innovation

The Kauffman Foundation, based out of Kansas City, MO, published a report, Proof of Concept Centers: Accelerating the Commercialization of University Innovation. The report addresses two case studies in which "Concept Centers" filled funding gaps and accelerated the commercialization of university innovations.

Introduction:

Proof of Concept Centers

Innovation drives economic growth. Economic growth leads to longer, healthier lives by transforming yesterday’s luxuries into better, cheaper, and more efficient goods and services. University research is a key component of our nation’s innovative capacity. In an increasingly dynamic and global economy, the institutional infrastructure is inefficient at moving university innovations to the marketplace. University researchers often face convoluted procedures with insufficient guidance to commercialize their innovations. As angel investors and venture capitalists increasingly invest in later-stage enterprises, researchers face difficulty finding early stage funding to develop and test prototypes and conduct market research. In order to fill this funding gap and accelerate the commercialization of university innovations, a new type of organization has emerged—the proof of concept center.

View the full report here:
http://www.kauffman.org/advancing-innovation/accelerating-commercializat...

This report was funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

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