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Minority Entrepreneurship Research A minority entrepreneurship research initiative is creating a pipeline of talent to advance high-quality research and expanding the body of knowledge in this under-studied field of discovery. Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise scholar Dr. James H. Johnson Jr., who directs the Institute’s Urban Investment Strategies Center, created the research initiative with $690,000 in seed funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in collaborate with Wayne State University professor Timothy Bates. Faculty "bootcamps" held in held in 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2009 brought junior scholars together with leading senior researchers in the field of minority and women's entrepreneurship to stimulate the next generation of research and researchers in this nascent field of academic research. Selected participants from the boot camp received research grants to pursue their discoveries. Research conferences in 2006 and 2008 featured the results of their work as well as that the senior scholars who led the boot camp workshops. Junior scholars nurtured by the earliest boot camps now return as senior scholars with advanced research initiatives under way. Papers presented at the 2006 conference were published in a special edition of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2007. The next research conference is planned for 2011. For more information, contact:
Dr. James H. Johnson, Jr.
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