Kauffman Foundation Honors Scholars
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
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Kauffman Foundation Honors Promising
Scholars for Ground-Breaking Research in Entrepreneurship
Kauffman Emerging Scholars Awards Inspire Young Researchers to
Study Entrepreneurship
Kansas City, Mo. (PRWEB) January 08, 2013
The Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation announced today the recipients of the Kauffman Emerging Scholars
Program. This program recognizes the achievements of young scholars who are
making significant contributions to research in entrepreneurship. The awards
were presented Saturday, Jan. 5, at the Allied Social Science Associations'
annual meeting in San Diego, Calif.
"We are proud to honor
these bright emerging scholars for their outstanding work in academic
entrepreneurship study,” said Robert J. Strom, director of research and policy
at the Foundation. "Not only is their work significant, but they represent some
of the brightest future leaders in the field of entrepreneurship research who
will influence our next generation of academics.”
The Kauffman Foundation
funds a series of programs and initiatives designed to create a substantial
body of research on entrepreneurship and innovation. The programs assist
promising young scholars in their efforts to earn doctoral degrees, and
encourage scholars to conduct research early in their careers and recognize
ground-breaking research—all with a focus on entrepreneurship. The Foundation's
Emerging Scholars Program supports and recognizes achievements at each career
level of an academic professional. Following are the recipients of the Emerging
Scholars Program awards:
Ewing Marion Kauffman
Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship
As a tribute to Ewing
Marion Kauffman and his entrepreneurial work, the Kauffman Foundation
established the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in
Entrepreneurship in 2005 to inspire young scholars to contribute new insight
into the field of entrepreneurship. The Medal, which includes a $50,000 prize,
is awarded annually to recognize scholars under the age of 40 whose research
has made a significant contribution to entrepreneurship. More information on
the Kauffman Prize Medal can be found at
http://www.kauffman.org/kauffmanprize
.
William Kerr, the 2013
Medal recipient, is an expert in agglomeration and entrepreneurship,
immigration, and innovation. Kerr researches the role of immigrant scientists
in technology commercialization, the interaction of government policy and firm
entry and cluster formation, and entrepreneurial finance.
Kerr received his
bachelor's degree in systems engineering from the University of Virginia in
1996. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 2005. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 2005.
Kauffman Dissertation
Fellowship Program
The Kauffman
Dissertation Fellowship Program annually recognizes 15 exceptional doctoral
students and their universities. Fifteen fellowships in the amount of $20,000
each will be awarded to the students to support their dissertation research in
the area of entrepreneurship. Including the current class of fellows, 153
awards have been made since the program was created in 2003. More information
on the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program can be found at
http://www.kauffman.org/kdfp
.
The 2013 fellowship
recipients, along with their university affiliations and the titles of their
dissertations, are:
James Bailey, Temple
University, Health Insurance and the Supply of Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from
the Affordable Care Act
Vanessa Beary, Harvard
University, The Impact Of Entrepreneurship Education in Khujand, Tajikistan: A
Longitudinal Study with Random Assignment
Sean Carr, University of
Virginia, The Social Dynamics of Crowdfunding: Network Ties and Social
Influence in the Financing of New Ventures
Bo Cowgill, University
of California, Berkeley, Essays on Innovation and Economic Organization
G. Christopher Crawford,
University of Louisville, Causes of Extreme Outcomes in Entrepreneurship:
Endowments, Expectations, Engagement, and Environments
Daphne Demetry,
Northwestern University, Episodic Organizations: Nascent Entrepreneurial Forms
of Organizing
Laura Doering,
University of Chicago, Entrepreneurial Novelty: Three Essays on Innovation and
Financialization in Emerging Markets
Shweta Gaonkar,
University of Maryland, College Park, The Strategic Network of Entrepreneurial
Firms: Impact of Pre Founding Ties
Manuel Hermosilla,
Northwestern University, Essays on the Management of Intellectual Property and
Drug Innovation
Lara Loewenstein,
Brandeis University, Home Equity and Small Business Finance
Jamie McCasland,
University of California, Berkeley, Training Aspiring Entrepreneurs in Africa:
Peer Effects in Apprenticeship Training in Ghana
Neil Mehrotra, Columbia
University, Financial Frictions and Job Creation in the Great Recession
Russel Nelson,
University of California, Irvine, Competitive Dynamics in New Markets: Measuring
Innovation, Successful Strategies, and the Role of Social Media
Amy Nguyen-Chyung,
University of California, Berkeley, How Entrepreneurial Do You Choose to Be?
Talent, Risk Attitudes, Overconfidence and Self-selection into Different Levels
of Entrepreneurship
Adam Osman, Yale
University, Tackling Youth Unemployment: Theory and Evidence from Two
Randomized Experiments
Kauffman Junior Faculty
Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research
The Kauffman Junior
Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research (KJFF) recognizes junior
faculty who are beginning to establish a record of scholarship and exhibit the
potential to make significant contributions to the body of research in the
field of entrepreneurship. Seven fellowships are awarded annually to junior faculty
members from universities across the United States. Each Fellow's university
will receive a grant of $40,000 over two years to support the research
activities of the Fellow. More information about the Kauffman Junior Faculty
Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research can be found at
http://www.kauffman.org/kjff
.
The 2012 fellowship
recipients, along with their university affiliations, are:
Natarajan
Balasubramanian, Ph.D., Syracuse University
Martin Ganco, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Deepak Hegde, Ph.D., New York University
Chris Rider, Ph.D., Emory University
Michael Roach, Ph.D., Duke University
Raffaella Sadun, Ph.D., Harvard Business School
E. Glen Weyl, Ph.D., University of Chicago
About the Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private nonpartisan foundation that
works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies
and improve human welfare. Through its research and other initiatives, the
Kauffman Foundation aims to open young people's eyes to the possibility of
entrepreneurship, promote entrepreneurship education, raise awareness of
entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and find alternative pathways for the
commercialization of new knowledge and technologies. In addition, the
Foundation focuses on initiatives in the Kansas City region to advance
students' math and science skills, and improve the educational achievement of
urban students, including the Ewing Marion Kauffman School, a college
preparatory charter school for middle and high school students. Founded by late
entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman, the Foundation is based
in Kansas City, Mo. and has approximately $2 billion in assets. For more
information, visit
http://www.kauffman.org
, and follow the Foundation on
http://www.twitter.com/kauffmanfdn
and
http://www.facebook.com/kauffmanfdn
.
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