The Insider: Entrepreneurial Education: Priming Students to 'Think Creatively and Innovate'
A vibrant, successful, entrepreneurial community is essential to regional growth. Three issues of Innovation Matters are exploring key aspects that allow entrepreneurs to flourish within the Philadelphia Region: an entrepreneurial community, funding opportunities and entrepreneurial education.
The Philadelphia Region is home to more than 85 colleges and universities which awarded 55,700 degrees during the 2005 - 2006 academic year. As entrepreneurism is on the rise, colleges and universities throughout the Philadelphia Region offer entrepreneurial programs which provide students with hands-on learning and the opportunity to work with entrepreneurs on real-time projects.
Temple University houses an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute through the university’s Fox School of Business. Currently, Temple offers an entrepreneurship major and minor. At the undergraduate level, certificate programs in non-business disciplines have been successfully piloted at the College of Engineering, College of Science and Technology and College of Health Professions. "This year, we created an MBA concentration in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Design which we anticipate offering in the fall," says Monica Zimmerman Treichel, Academic Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at Temple University.
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