The following grants were reported in 2008:
$8,100,000 to Kansas University Endowment Association, Lawrence, KS. To establish the Institute for Advancing Medical Innovation at the University of Kansas, payable over 1 year.
$2,938,925 to National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA. To support research by the Entrepreneurship Working Group, the Innovation Policy and the Economy Working Group, and the Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp at the National Bureau of Economic Research, payable over 1 year.
$2,752,339 to Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. To support development of the Legal Lab Network at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, payable over 1 year.
$1,800,000 to Urban Entrepreneurship Partnership, Kansas City, MO. To support initiative which combines private, public, and nonprofit sector resources to foster minority entrepreneurship, business development, and job creation in the Gulf Coast area after the devastation caused by hurricanes and flooding, payable over 1 year.
$550,000 to University of California, Berkeley, CA. To support the A. Richard Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series and the annual Global Technology Leaders Conference, payable over 1 year.
$530,000 to Public Forum Institute, Washington, DC. To advance the nationwide discussion on the value of entrepreneurship by cultivating key partnerships, monitoring public policy developments, and equipping decision makers with information to support the entrepreneurial economy, payable over 1 year.
$309,522 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA. To explore the character and extent of the division of innovative labor in the American economy across firms and other institutions that leads to the commercialization of innovative products and services, and how that division of labor affects the innovation performance of firms and industries, payable over 1 year.
$200,000 to National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas, TX. To support a research project on the U.S. Medicare program which will explore entrepreneurial and cost-effective alternatives for delivering medical care to Medicare beneficiaries, payable over 1 year.
$50,000 to Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. To support the development of a business plan for an enterprise to collect and disseminate private equity fund performance data, payable over 1 year.
$50,000 to Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. To support research on the entrepreneur’s decision of where to seek seed funding, payable over 1 year.