Josh Feng has been awarded a Knowledge Challenge grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a private, nonpartisan foundation that works together with communities in education and entrepreneurship to increase opportunities that allow all people to learn, to take risks, and to own their success.
The grants under this Knowledge Challenge are focused on inclusion and the importance of answering questions about the relationship between entrepreneurship, economic opportunity and mobility. Specifically, the project looks to provide empirical evidence on the degree to which innovators solve problems that affect themselves and their peers. The findings will speak to the potential benefits from increased diversity in the pool of innovators. The grants from the fund will be used primarily to obtain data on innovator backgrounds.