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Blog | Deshpande Symposium - Part 2

Building momentum from our 2021 Deshpande Symposium Award

Posted March 24, 2022 by admin

By: Elyse Ball, Executive Director, University of Akron Research Foundation Momentum is important in the world of entrepreneurship. In fact, it’s so important that it’s often mentioned among other key M’s, like market demand, motivation and money. Momentum can also be critically important for entrepreneurship programs, like those we run at the University of Akron […]

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Setting our sights on zero: How we define future success

Posted March 1, 2022 by admin

Audrey Iffert-Saleem, Ed.D. (she/her/hers) Director, InnovationX Oregon State University I was frustrated – again. Sitting on a panel at an entrepreneurship conference several years back, the topic was ‘best practices’ in measuring entrepreneurship program performance. And again, there seemed to be limited real talk going on about historic shortcomings in how we define our success, […]

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Using Lived Experience to Address Barriers to Inclusive Entrepreneurship

Posted February 11, 2022 by admin

by Besma Soltan, VenturED Lead, and Renee Devereaux, EDGE Director At Sheridan EDGE, a social venture incubator that works with and for founders from underrepresented communities, we’re accustomed to talking about systemic barriers. Inequitable access to capital, services and expertise are well-documented issues we hear echoed in the day-to-day experiences of our founders. Opening up […]

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Rhode Island Innovation Campus Project: URI’s Public Private Partnership for Innovation and Economic Development

Posted May 30, 2019 by Lisa Armstrong

  Deedee Chatham Director Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Undergraduate Research University of Rhode Island     What’s the smallest state to do? Many Rhode Islanders joke that there’s only three degrees of separation between people in Rhode Island. It’s a small place and we bump into each other across multiple platforms and programs throughout our careers. […]

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Agenda Announced for 2019 Deshpande Symposium

Posted May 21, 2019 by admin

Organizers of the 8th Annual Deshpande Symposium for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education have announced the complete agenda for the conference. The Symposium will take place June 10-12 at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center in Lowell, Massachusetts. Attendees and those interested can find details at https://www.deshpandesymposium.org/agenda/. Here’s a preview of the highlights:

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