13th Annual Symposium

March, 2022 | Deshpande Symposium

Building momentum from our 2021 Deshpande Symposium Award

Posted March 24, 2022 by admin

By: Elyse Ball, Executive Director, University of Akron Research Foundation Momentum is important in the world of entrepreneurship. In fact, it’s so important that it’s often mentioned among other key M’s, like market demand, motivation and money. Momentum can also be critically important for entrepreneurship programs, like those we run at the University of Akron […]

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Setting our sights on zero: How we define future success

Posted March 1, 2022 by admin

Audrey Iffert-Saleem, Ed.D. (she/her/hers) Director, InnovationX Oregon State University I was frustrated – again. Sitting on a panel at an entrepreneurship conference several years back, the topic was ‘best practices’ in measuring entrepreneurship program performance. And again, there seemed to be limited real talk going on about historic shortcomings in how we define our success, […]

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