New Round of KFS Data Aavailable April 1st

The Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) is a panel study of 4,928 businesses founded in 2004 and tracked over their early years of operation. The survey focuses on the nature of new business formation activity; characteristics of the strategy, offerings, and employment patterns of new businesses; the nature of the financial and organizational arrangements of these businesses; and the characteristics of their founders. Currently, data from the baseline survey, first, and second follow‑up surveys are available for analysis. The third year of follow‑up data (calendar year 2007) will be added to the baseline and two follow‑up years and made available on the public use dataset on April 1st, 2009. You can download a public‑use microdata set in SAS, STATA, or SPSS by going to www.kauffman.org/kfs

KFS REPORTS AVAILABLE:

There are four reports available in the KFS series:

The Kauffman Firm Survey: Results from the Baseline and First Follow‑Up

Surveys http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedfiles/kfs_08.pdf

The Capital Structure Decisions of New Firms

http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/Capital_Structure_Decisions_New_Firms.pdf

Characteristics of New Firms: A Comparison by Gender

http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/kfs_gender_020209.pdf

Patterns of Financing: A Comparison between White‑ and African‑American

Young Firms http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/kfs_black_firms.pdf

Here's valuable information you need about the PDW submission process for next year's Academy of Management Conference in Chicago. Besides the changes to the scheduling of the Conference that you are probably aware of, there are also some changes to the submission process and, most importantly, the deadlines.

The submission system, http://submissions.aomonline.org/2009, opens on November 3rd.  All submissions are due on January 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (New York Time). This is now the same deadline as for regular conference submissions.

Before you submit your proposal, contact Mike Wright, PDW Chair, no later than by December 15, 2008, and preferably much earlier. This will also allow the PDW chair to provide some comments on whether the proposal is appropriate for the Entrepreneurship Division and suggestions on how to improve the proposal. If the proposal does not appear to be relevant for the ENT Division and you're contacting the PDW Chair prior to the submission deadline, the PDW chair will try to suggest alternative divisions that you might target with your proposal. Besides relevance to the Division, emphasis will focus on the quality of proposals as each division has a restricted time allowance.

As a reminder, there are three kinds of PDW proposals: divisional (submitted only to the ENT Division as primary sponsor), cross-divisional (submitted to ENT Division with recommendations for co-sponsor divisions), and All Academy Theme proposals. Note that each PDW proposal can be submitted to only one division, interest group, or committee.  All Academy Theme PDW proposals go to the All Academy PDW chair, Andy Hoffman( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).   All submissions are due on January 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (New York Time).

If you have any queries about the PDW submission process please go to the Academy website. If you any questions and suggestions regarding the PDW process for the ENT Division specifically, please email Mike Wright, PDW Chair at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

A recent Kauffman Foundation survey shows over 70 percent of people in the U.S. see entrepreneurship as critical for pulling the country out of the current economic crisis and most people would like to see more government resources devoted to encouraging entrepreneurial activity.  The full article is available at http://www.kauffman.org/Details.aspx?id=3972