Kansas City, MO (PRWEB) August 13, 2014

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today the recipients of the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research (KJFF). The program recognizes junior faculty members in the United States whose research has the potential to make significant contributions to the body of literature in entrepreneurship. Each Fellow’s university will receive a grant of $ 35,000 over two years to support the research activities of the Fellow.

“This program will help launch leading scholars into the exciting, young field of entrepreneurship research,” said Robert J. Strom, director of Research and Policy at the Foundation. “The 2014 Fellows’ future research will be translated into knowledge with application for policymakers, educators, service providers and entrepreneurs.”

The 2014 fellowship recipients, along with their university affiliations, are:

 

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania

Shai Bernstein, Stanford University

Nathan R. Furr, Brigham Young University

Rory M. McDonald, Harvard Business School

Benjamin Moll, Princeton University

Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology

Heidi L. Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

The KJFF is one of three programs in the Kauffman Emerging Scholars initiative, which supports the overall goal of building the field of entrepreneurship research. The initiative, which includes the KJFF, Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship, assists talented young scholars in their efforts to earn doctoral degrees, encourages scholars to conduct research early in their careers and recognizes ground-breaking research—all with a focus on entrepreneurship. The Foundation’s Emerging Scholars programs support and recognize achievements of promising scholars in early stages of their careers.

More information about the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research can be found at http://www.kauffman.org/kjff.

 

About the Kauffman Foundation

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private, nonpartisan foundation that aims to foster economic independence by advancing educational achievement and entrepreneurial success. 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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