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Kauffman Foundation Announces 2008 Entrepreneurship Dissertation Fellowships |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today the 2008 recipients of the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship awards. Sixteen fellowships in the amount of $20,000 each will be awarded to current Ph.D. students who are engaged in the study of entrepreneurship at U.S. universities. The fellowships will be presented at the American Economic Association's annual meeting in New Orleans on Jan. 4, 2008. "An increasing number of doctoral students are choosing a dissertation topic related to entrepreneurship," said Robert J. Strom, Ph.D., director of Entrepreneurship Research and Policy at the Foundation. "The purpose of the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program is to recognize excellence among a select group of the nation's future entrepreneurship scholars." - Jason Greenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Is it the Network or the Neighborhood? Including the current class of fellows, 78 awards have been made since the program was created in 2002. Information regarding the 2009 Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program will be available on the Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Portal by Aug. 1, 2008. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City is a private, nonpartisan foundation that works with partners to advance entrepreneurship in America and improve the education of children and youth. The Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman. AScribe provides direct, immediate access to mainstream national media for 600 colleges, universities, medical centers, public-policy groups and other leading nonprofit organizations.
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