Posted May 14, 2019 by admin
Amy Nelson joined Venture for America in 2013 to lead fundraising, rose to Managing Director in 2016, and became CEO in 2017. And on Tuesday morning, June 11, she’ll deliver keynote remarks at the 8th annual 8th Annual Deshpande Symposium at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center in downtown Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Posted May 10, 2019 by Lisa Armstrong
H. Lee Herron, DVM Vice President of Venture Development Georgia Research Alliance To put the concept of venture readiness in context, many university-based venture development efforts do not achieve the desired results of sustainable start-up companies. Creating companies is the easy part and obtaining seed capital though SBIR, STTR or other grants or state/university funding […]
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Posted April 26, 2019 by Lisa Armstrong
We have embarked on an ambitious and I hope innovative project at UNC Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Entrepreneurship Center, a longitudinal study on how to support the transition to entrepreneurship over their lifetime. You may have observed that there are a number of entrepreneurial programs being developed to encourage entrepreneurship at all phases of […]
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Posted April 25, 2019 by admin
Innovation culture in academia, entrepreneurship-driven curricula, and technology commercialization will be the hottest of the topics to be discussed at the 8th Annual Deshpande Symposium, to be held June 10-12 at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center in downtown Lowell, Massachusetts. College and university faculty, administrators, and students, as well as business people and […]
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Posted April 3, 2019 by admin
The Awards Committee of the 2019 Deshpande Symposium has announced that it is extending its nomination submission deadline to Monday, April 15. All individuals and institutions wishing to recognize leaders in the promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship in colleges and universities are encouraged to submit nominations online by the deadline date.
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