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Uncategorized | Deshpande Symposium - Part 3

The Value of Venture Readiness

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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The Reducing Half-Life of First EMoment over the Generations: Insights from UNC’s Entrepreneurship Genome Project

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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Registration is open for 8th Annual Deshpande Symposium

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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Deshpande Symposium Extends Awards Submissions to April 15

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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Teaching Green: Integrating Sustainability Principles into I&E Curriculum

Posted January 16, 2019 by Lisa Armstrong

Innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) will play a significant role in solving current and future global environmental issues. Yet there’s a tremendous need to prepare tomorrow’s inventors and designers for these challenges—today. Fortunately, more and more educators and higher ed institutions are rising to the challenge. They realize that, in order to prepare tomorrow’s innovators to […]

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