Campus Entrepreneurship

Our friends over at StudentBusinesses.com have started a new, weekly feature on their blog — a column profiling some of the great businesses and entrepreneurs that they have as part of their site. Below is an excerpt from their inaugural column. It features two new ventures, ThinkGum LLC and EasyBib.
Founded by a PhD candidate at [...]

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I saw entrepreneur Gauri Nanda on Donny Deutsch a long time ago (maybe up to a year ago). While pursuing graduate work at the MIT media lab, Nanda created an alarm clock that would actually get the user up and out of bed.
For some people, this is not a problem, they get up with their [...]

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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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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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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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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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WSJ writer Rebecca Buckman has an interesting piece on the special relationship that exists between a leading MIT Scientist (Robert Langer) and a leading venture capitalist (Terry McGuire). The two have launched 13 firms together over the past 15 years.
In looking at the continuum of campus entrepreneurs, PhD’s like Robert Langer are at the extreme [...]

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Just read an interesting story by Kimberly Cornuelle covering BU’s Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (ITEC) competition. In this competition, there will be real time voting for finalists by audience members. While it doesn’t appear that these votes are not counted in a specific way, according to the article, the judges will take audience [...]

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Quite simply, there is almost unlimited opportunity for entrepreneurship on campus. That is one of the reasons that we are seeing more and more campus entrepreneurs. From loans and housing to food and clothing, campus entrepreneurs have entered many of these markets.
The Global Higher Ed blog has a fascinating posting that explains that the campus [...]

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