Educators: Learn from 3 Universities that Create and Train Entrepreneurs

As young companies have been responsible for a majority of net job growth over the last couple decades, entrepreneurship has increasingly become a fundamental force at universities nationwide. Research from the U.S. Small Business Administration suggests important links between education and venture creation and entrepreneurial performance — to the extent that education can provide both a greater supply of entrepreneurs and higher levels of entrepreneurial performance.

Thus the question remains: how are administrators at the nation’s top universities with the top entrepreneurship programs fostering innovation and building student entrepreneurs from scratch, and what can you learn from their example?

A recent review of three universities with nationally ranked entrepreneurship programs — The University of California, Los Angeles, Cornell University, and the University of Houston — points to these key findings.

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