Campus Entrepreneurship

Administrators and Professors are still exhibiting a wide variety of reactions to the growth in campus entrepreneurship. Andrzej Zwaniecki of America.gov wrote a nice piece on the rise of entrepreneurship on US campuses.
The piece offers some interesting insights and coverage of the growth of entrepreneurship and institutions on MITs campus over the past decade [...]

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Found this really cool article by Albert Park over at Xconomy.com in which he (an MIT student) goes over and observes the entrepreneurial culture at local rival Harvard. When I think of Harvard entrepreneurs I think of Gates and Zuckerberg.
Parks does kind of a mini-ethnography and lays out some of the driving institutions in Harvard’s [...]

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Early in ‘08 we blogged about Belmont University being named the ‘model’ undergrad entrepreneurship program in the US. Donna Fenn has written about Belmont over at Inc.com. From her piece,
The school has three “hatcheries” or incubators, where 65 students operate businesses with access to mentors and business center services. Belmont has also invested several hundred [...]

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From the press release;
Stern Board of Overseer Ira Leon Rennert, Chairman and CEO of the private investment firm the Renco Group and longstanding supporter of entrepreneurship at the School, committed $3.5 million. His gift will enhance the seed funding currently awarded to traditional track winners in Stern’s nationally recognized Business Plan Competition, as well as [...]

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Found this via DailySlop.com — “The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine has named the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business as the nation’s top graduate program for 2007.” A link to the article in school’s newspaper.

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In a section called tool kit, NY Times writer Paul Brown offer’s Fortune Magazine’s findings on where the right place to learn entrepreneurship is. From undergrad and grad to online and executive ed; the article lays out some programs to think about. Nowhere in the article does it actually look at the broader campus [...]

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