Princeton University Press and Kauffman Foundation Launch Book Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Josh Lerner's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" Is First Book of the Series

(live-PR.com) - PRINCETON, NJ -- (Marketwire) -- 11/18/09 -- Princeton University Press today announced a
publishing partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the
world's largest foundation devoted to entrepreneurship, to launch the
Kauffman Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Launched during Global
Entrepreneurship Week, a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship, the
Series is a collaborative effort between the Kauffman Foundation, Princeton
University Press and the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at New
York University to publish the best scholarship in innovation and
entrepreneurial research, from general interest titles to more scholarly
works.





The first book in the Series debuts this week with the release of
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship
and Venture Capital Have Failed -- and What to Do about It." Written by
Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner, this book provides the first
extensive look at the ways governments have supported entrepreneurs and
venture capitalists across decades and continents, and why some are
successful and others are not.



"Boulevard represents the high-quality, insightful research that readers
can expect from the Kauffman Series," said Robert Litan, vice president of
Research & Policy at the Kauffman Foundation. "Each book will shed light on
areas of innovation and entrepreneurship that will enlighten and encourage
others to look more deeply into these important fields."



Other books in the series will include "The Invention of Enterprise:
Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times," a volume of
historical essays on entrepreneurship edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr
and William J. Baumol, due for release in February 2010; and, "The
Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship" by William J. Baumol, which is
scheduled for a July 2010 release.



The Kauffman Series and will publish between two to three new titles a
year. Princeton University Press economics editor Seth Ditchik will be
working with the Kauffman Foundation to produce influential and timely new
titles that will affect not only the discipline of entrepreneurship but
also policymakers, business managers and technology financiers.



For more information on the series, visit
http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/kfie.html : http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/kfie.html .



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. For more information, visit www.kauffman.org : http://www.kauffman.org , and
follow @kauffmanfdn on Twitter.



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Contact:
Andrew DeSio
(609) 258-5165
andrew_desio@press.princeton.edu : andrew_desio@press.princeton.edu

Lacey Graverson
Kauffman Foundation
(816) 932-1116
lgraverson@kauffman.org : lgraverson@kauffman.org