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6 unusual facts about Entrepreneurship


BrightBuilt Barn

It was first established in Rockport, Maine by Kaplan Thompson Architects and company, when a rich entrepreneur contacted them by the name of Keith Collin.

Corporate immune system

The term is most commonly used to describe such processes that drive out innovation and entrepreneurial activity within organizations.

Entrepreneurship

1961: David McClelland: An entrepreneur is a person with a high need for achievement N-Ach.

Innovative entrepreneurs may be more likely to experience what psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls flow.

Csikszentmihalyi suggests that breakthrough innovations occur at the hands of individuals experiencing flow.

Economist Robert Reich has called team-building, leadership and management ability essential qualities for the entrepreneur.


Anaheim University

It also contains three institutes: the David Nunan TESOL Institute (established to honor David Nunan), the Carland Entrepreneurship Institute and the Kisho Kurokawa Green Institute (conceived by architect Kisho Kurokawa).

Avtandil Silagadze

Professional Associations: (born 2013 -) Member Academician of National Academy of Sciences of Georgia (2001-2013) corresponding member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences; (1996-) academician of the International Academy of Education, Industry and Arts, California (USA); (1997-) academician of the International Academy of Economics and Entrepreneurship of Russian Federation.

Barber–Scotia College

During her tenure President Gloria Bromell Tinubu led a strategic planning effort to change the college from a four-year liberal arts program to a college of entrepreneurship and business, and established partnerships with accredited colleges and top-tiered universities.

Barefoot College

In the profile acknowledging Roy as one of Time 100 most influential people for his work with the Barefoot College, Greg Mortenson wrote that the grass-roots social entrepreneurship has trained more than 3 million people for jobs in the modern world, "in buildings so rudimentary they have dirt floors and no chairs" so that poor students feel comfortable.

Carl Schramm

Schramm has been instrumental in the development of a partnership with the U.S. Department of Commerce to create an international entrepreneurship resource at www.entrepreneurship.gov and also spearheaded the Foundation’s sponsorship of the first-ever Global Entrepreneurship Week, which he announced in November 2007 with UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Center for Urologie Regional Entrepreneurship

Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Center for Urological Regional Entrepreneurship (also known as CURE) is a nonprofit organization funded by the Heinz Endowments.

Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984

The Act of Congress set forth the quest to acquire innovative equipment and services offered by entrepreneurial ventures from the information technology services, remote sensing technology, and telecommunications industries.

Corporate entrepreneurship

At an undergraduate level there is limits on where you can learn corporate entrepreneurship, the unit corporate venturing is one example of the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship (AGSE) at Swinburne University of Technology as part of the Bachelor of Commerce (Entrepreneurship and Innovation).

Department of Electronics and Accreditation of Computer Classes

The Department of Electronics and Accreditation of Computer Courses (DOEACC) is an autonomous scientific society under the Indian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and is involved in training, consulting, product development, entrepreneurship and human resource development in information, electronics & communication technologies.

Derek Handley

Handley is an active speaker in the entrepreneurship, marketing and digital industry, having spoken at events around the world including ad:tech, Mobile Marketing Association Forums, OMMA, iMedia, Informa, CTIA, Consumer Electronics Show, Mobile Entertainment Forum, iHollywood and Webstock in New Zealand.

Economic Recovery and Middle-Class Tax Relief Act of 2009

The bill has been endorsed by Americans for Tax Reform, the National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, FreedomWorks, the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, and the American Conservative Union.

Entrepreneurship education

This approach is called corporate entrepreneurship or Intrapreneurship, and was made popular by author Gifford Pinchot in his book of the same name.

Eric Abrahamson

Dr. Abrahamson has written a number of books and articles, including Spirited Commitment: The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Foundation, which he co-authored with Roderick MacLeod (McGill-Queens University Press, 2010) and Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World, which he co-authored with Louis Galambos of Johns Hopkins University (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

European Employment Strategy

The European Employment Strategy is built around priority themes under the four pillars of employability, entrepreneurship, adaptability and equal opportunities.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group

Research on entrepreneurship, technology venturing and commercialisation is led jointly by Professor Erkko Autio who holds the QinetiQ Chair, and Professor Bart Clarysse.

James E. Schrager

James E. Schrager is a Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Jean Griswold

On August 20, 1997 Tipper Gore wrote to Dr. Griswold from the Office Of The Vice President of the United States: Your entrepreneurship and ingenuity have enabled individuals with illnesses to have the opportunity to receive the care they deserve.

Joshua Gans

Joshua Gans holds the Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

Kairos Society

Founded by entrepreneur Ankur Jain at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the organization supports programs at over 100 universities in 35 countries, working to foster high-growth entrepreneurship through the creation of innovative ventures.

Lane Sutton

Sutton first became known to the public at the age of 13 when The Boston Globe recognized him for meeting Tony Hsieh, speaking at PodCamp, early start to entrepreneurship and using the computer "at barely 8", and his experience.

Lawrence Langowski

Langowski moved to Mexico City to serve as a fellow at Endeavor, a non-profit focused on developing entrepreneurship in emerging economies, and to study business at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).

Leeds Business School

Key research within Leeds Business School initiatives include a project for the British Council, working on employability and entrepreneurship with international partners in Leeds' twin city Hangzhou, China.

Libre Clothing

The four co-founders were all students at the Page Center for Entrepreneurship at Miami University when they started the business.

Maastricht Graduate School of Governance

Wim Naudé - Professor of Development Economics and Entrepreneurship

Michael Hayman

As an advocate of entrepreneurship, Michael Hayman is a co-founder of StartUp Britain, a campaign by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, which was launched in 2011 by the Prime Minister David Cameron, the Chancellor George Osbourne and the Secretary of State for Business Vince Cable in response to the Government's call for an 'enterprise-led' recovery.

Peter Nares

In 1992, Nares' program to provide entrepreneurship training to the unemployed was incorporated into Canada's Employment Insurance legislation.

Porges

Nenad Porges (born 1946, Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, (now Croatia)), Croatian politician, businessman, entrepreneur and former Minister of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship

Pratham

Pratham’s founder and current CEO, Madhav Chavan, was the 2011 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

Public policy

David B. Audretsch ; Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, A. Roy (2007), Explaining entrepreneurship and the role of policy: a framework, in: David Audretsch, Isabel Grilo and A. Roy Thurik (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing

David B. Audretsch und Beckmann, Iris A.M. (2007), From Small Business to Entrepreneurship Policy, in: David Audretsch, Isabel Grilo and A. Roy Thurik (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing

Rajeeb Dey

As an advocate of entrepreneurship, Rajeeb Dey is a co-founder of StartUp Britain, a campaign by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, which was launched in 2011 by the Prime Minister David Cameron, the Chancellor George Osbourne and the Secretary of State for Business Vince Cable in response to the Government's call for an 'enterprise-led' recovery.

Rashmi Bansal

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship, 2008, ISBN 978-81-904530-1-1

Remon Magar

Remon Magar graduated from Tourism Services School and majored in Tourism Business Entrepreneurship; made many studies in Crisis Management and Corporate Finance (PPT).

Robert Lorsch

His career of combining entrepreneurship and philanthropy was the focal point of one of the seven keys to success in the 2007 book, The Millionaire Zone, authored by ABC Radio Host and AOL Family Financial Editor Jennifer Openshaw.

Rusnano

#Evgeny Fedorov, Chairman, State Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship

Shaker Zahra

He has also held the 3TU Chair in International Entrepreneurship at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

Simon Rushton

He completed his thesis - 'The United Nations Secretariat and Norm Entrepreneurship: The Promotion of Democracy in International Society' - in 2004 and subsequently joined the staff as a Research Assistant and later as lecturer.

Social entrepreneurship

A list of a few historically noteworthy people whose work exemplifies classic "social entrepreneurship" might include Florence Nightingale, founder of the first nursing school and developer of modern nursing practices; Robert Owen, founder of the cooperative movement; and Vinoba Bhave, founder of India's Land Gift Movement.

Steven Myers

His involvement helped create a refueling base for carriers with international cargo near the city of Petropavlovsk and introduced entrepreneurship into post-Soviet Russia.

Students for Organ Donation

It was also awarded a $10,000 Do Something BRICK Award and $5,000 Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Social Entrepreneurship Grant to fund expansion.

TechWadi

The TechWadi Global Entrepreneurship Forum, held at the American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon in 2010, marked the launch of the TechWadi 100 Network of mentors.

UNeMed

UNeMed employees are also regular attendees at various trade conferences such as AUTM, LES, and AIPLA annual meetings, and the Big Omaha entrepreneurship conference.

Valerie Fox

In 2012, Valerie received the prestigious Canadian Women in Technology (CanWIT) Sara Kirke Award for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, provided by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATAAlliance).

Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School

Bob Schlegel & Myrna Schlegel, who made a $2 million donation to Wilfrid Laurier University in 1998 to create the Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship

You Only Loved Me Twice

You Only Loved Me Twice is a crime drama short film directed by award winning director Ryan Pickett, which along with a business proposal helped him become a top 5 finalist in the showcase event in the USA for Global Entrepreneurship Week film entrepreneurship competition The Race to BE hosted by media mogul Russell Simmons at Sony Picture Studios in Los Angeles.

Young Entrepreneur Council

The bill’s authors worked with Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-New Orleans, LA), who proposed in 2011 creating an Office of Youth Entrepreneurship at the Small Business Administration.

Zoltan Acs

Along with David B. Audretsch, Acs received the 2001 International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research from the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development (NUTEK).


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