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613 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2007)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0613 and id is 1 raw text is: PREFACE Fostering Research on Minority Entrepreneurship By ROBERT D. STROM T his special issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science presents work that is vitally important to our nation's future. At the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, we see entrepreneurship and educational achievement as the levers that will create a society of self-sufficient individu- als and a growing economy. Entrepreneurship is a means for individuals of all backgrounds to lift themselves out of poverty, to create jobs for other citizens, and to ensure that innovation and creativity continue to revitalize the coun- try. Entrepreneurship, in fact, has been the engine behind the United States' unprece- dented economic growth over the past decade and has offered opportunities for immigrants, minorities, and women to climb the ladder of economic success throughout our nation's history. However, there continues to be a need to increase the number of successful entrepre- neurs in the United States. Ensuring that all Americans-and new immigrants-have access to entrepreneurship and to the tools they need to be successful entrepreneurs will result in higher employment, less poverty, more innovation, and higher living standards for everyone. To that end, we see a need to bolster the institutions that support entrepreneurial Robert D. Strom directs the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundations commissioned research, working with the nation's top scholars to advance knowledge in entrepreneurship. He has also served on the collegiate and youth entrepreneurship teams during his tenure at the foundation. Prvi iously, he was a visiting profes- sor at the Bloch School of Business at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and vice president of the National Council on Economic Education. He has also been assistant vice president for public affairs at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, president of the Missouri Council on Economic Education, a professor of economics at the University qf Missouri at Columbia, and a member of the economics department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. DOI: 10.1177/0002716207303403 ANNALS, AAPSS, 613, September 2007 6

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