Most innovations in business incubation are incremental, the fine-tuning of a broad general concept. Rarely does a program discover and capitalize on a whole new era of business development and education. It is this fact that makes the Center for Advanced Professional Studies stand out. The Overland Park, Kan., program has gained national attention in recent years for its program of comprehensive entrepreneurship training and student business building in a range of technical fields. The program has been endorsed by leading universities and businesses. Scores of educators from around the world have traveled to the CAPS facility in hope of cloning or emulating the program, and a dozen schools have begun CAPS programs of their own.
