Campus Entrepreneurship

I received an email from Albert Park, (we linked to his great post on Harvard’s Entrepreunerial Culture). He is holding a get together (with some sponsors) for all Boston-based campus entrepreneurs on May 3. Here is his email:
I’d like to extend an invitation to any of your-student-entrepreneur readers out there to attend UNDERGROUND 2008, [...]

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The deadline to apply for the UC Davis Green Tech Entrepreneurship Academy has been extended to May 16th. The Academy is for science and technology doctoral students, post-docs, and research faculty. The event will take place over a week in July in Lake Tahoe, NV.
The keynote speaker for the event is going to Armory Lovins. [...]

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I was not able to post anything over the weekend because life got in the way. You see, in addition to blogging as a component of my PhD, I am also a launching a new business and am married with a young child.
My wife works full time as an ER doctor and was working on [...]

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Just a reminder that the finals of the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Business Plan Competition are tomorrow (April 26th). The finals are open to the public from 1-5 pm in the ICC Auditorium on the Georgetown University Campus in DC. I will be blogging live (assuming the wifi works) from the event. Between 4 and 6 finalists [...]

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If you spend any time reading about or studying management, entrepreneurship, or business strategy, you will likely come across the term ‘corporate entrepreneurship.’ While I generally dismiss the term and don’t read much about it, today’s WSJ has an interesting piece on the perpetual beer wars between Budweiser and Miller (think India v. Pakistan) in [...]

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Given that we live in an economy driven by knowledge (see Drucker, Florida, or Bell), campuses (where knowledge is created and disseminated) have become vital nodes for economic growth and new venture development.
The actions, individuals, and companies we have seen over the past 50 years and the quickening pace of campus entrepreneurship over the past [...]

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When I first began thinking about building my new venture, I knew I would need a basic content management system. Two open source tools were recommended by various people — Joomla and Drupal.
We ended up going with Joomla (the dev should be done soon), but I just learned today that Drupal was created by Dries [...]

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Next Saturday (April 26th) I will be attending the finals of the Mid-Atlantic Business Plan Competition. The event is put on by the MIT Enterprise Forum of Washington-Baltimore and Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. This competition is open to students at any university or college in DC, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware. (Pretty interesting [...]

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Next Saturday (April 26th) I will be attending the finals of the Mid-Atlantic Business Plan Competition. The event is put on by the MIT Enterprise Forum of Washington-Baltimore and Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. This competition is open to students at any university or college in DC, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware. (Pretty interesting [...]

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GlobalHigherEd has a pretty interesting post on the growth of ‘education cities’ or ‘hotspots’ where multiple global educational institutions and corporations co-locate. The blogs describes this trend:
new globalizing knowledge spaces, especially when multiple institutions (and often firms) from different countries are brought together within one space. These may take the form of a branch/overseas/foreign campus, [...]

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