Francisco Buera, Enterprise Initiative Collaborator, Awarded Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship
KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Ewing
Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today the recipients of
the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowships in Entrepreneurship
Research. Five fellowships in the amount of $50,000 each
were awarded to tenured or tenure-track junior faculty
members whose research has the potential to make significant
contributions to the body of literature in
entrepreneurship. Each Fellow's university will receive the
grant over two years to support the research activities of
the Fellow. The Fellowships will be presented at the Allied
Social Science Associations' annual meeting in Atlanta in
January 2010. "This program is designed to help advance
leading scholars into an emerging and exciting field of research," said Robert J. Strom,
Ph.D., director of Entrepreneurship Research & Policy at the
Foundation. "The findings generated by this effort will be
translated into knowledge with immediate application for
policymakers, educators, service providers and entrepreneurs
as well as high-quality academic research."
The 2010
fellowship recipients, along with their university
affiliations, are:
Francisco Buera, University of
California, Los Angeles
Brett Anitra Gilbert, Texas A&M University
Jeremy Greene, Harvard University
William Kerr, Harvard Business School
Ramana Nanda, Harvard Business School
The Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship program is one of
three academic recognition programs established by the
Kauffman Foundation to help build a body of quality
entrepreneurship research. The annual Kauffman Dissertation
Fellowship Program, established in 2002, awards up to 15
grants of $20,000 each to Ph.D., D.B.A. or other doctoral
students for the support of dissertations in the area of
entrepreneurship. The Kauffman Prize Medal, established in
2005, is awarded every two years to one scholar under the
age of 40 whose research has made a significant contribution
to entrepreneurship. The Medal includes a $50,000 prize.
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. It also
works to prepare students to be innovators, entrepreneurs
and skilled workers in the 21st century economy through
initiatives designed to improve learning in math,
engineering, science and technology. Founded by late
entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman, the
Foundation is based in Kansas City, Mo. and has
approximately $2 billion in assets.
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CONTACTS: Barbara Pruitt, 816-932-1288,
bpruitt@kauffman.org, Kauffman Foundation