While politicians are out of town campaigning, the nation’s capital has been welcoming leaders in entrepreneurship education from America’s colleges and universities. Following a warm up from the younger “Empact” entrepreneurship education advocates, I joined a packed summit of university and community college presidents at the White House put together by the Commerce Department’s Nish Acharya, and then spoke this past Friday at Jeff Reid’s Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers conference at Georgetown University. It is increasingly clear that America’s colleges and universities have been retooling as engines of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Educators around the country seem determined to improve this engine’s efficiency, not just in terms of technology transfer, but also in entrepreneurship education, culture and support. Two years ago, I would merely have commented on the fact that entrepreneurship classes and career advice, once the exception to the rule, now appear on almost all campuses in more disciplines with entrepreneurship centers, incubators and accelerators—partly as a result of the Kauffman Campus challenges and investment. What is happening today is a much more exciting story.
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