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UNLV students, faculty, and staff enjoyed a host of activities to celebrate
Entrepreneurship Week, held February 26 March 3, 2007. Local entrepreneurs,
along with the Nevada Small Business Development Center, came to campus to
discuss such topics as social entrepreneurship, commercializing technology, and
getting a business started.
Entrepreneurship Week USA has been launched
to ignite the nations consciousness around the importance of being
entrepreneurial. The initiative is designed to stimulate on-going interest from
individuals and organizations serving as an educational kick-start for the
uninitiated, and an inspiration for young people to begin a journey to fulfill
their potential as self-starters and entrepreneurs.
Traditionally
entrepreneurship refers to starting a new business, but in todays environment
entrepreneurship permeates into very diverse areas of society, and
entrepreneurial thinking people emerge through all sorts of routes and
backgrounds. Entrepreneurial thinking is applied to non-business problems, and
it is as relevant to public and volunteer organizations as it is to large
corporations and small businesses. Entrepreneurship Week USA is designed to help
individuals actually see themselves as entrepreneurial thinkers using
creativity and innovation in support of their goals.
In order to truly
bring this initiative to scale, a broad coalition of partner organizations has
been recruited each reaching and engaging their own networks in all parts of
the country. These include educational institutions, youth-serving institutions,
media outlets, philanthropic foundations, entrepreneurship-focused organizations
and hundreds of others around the country.
The UNLV Center for
Entrepreneurship is partnering with this broad coalition to focus on the role of
Entrepreneurship in the university setting. We are seeking to reach every
student on campus with the message that entrepreneurship allows students to
create value for themselves and others across an incredibly wide range of
disciplines and contexts.
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