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NEW INSITE unveils beta website of UW-Madison start-up community and seeks to build resource with community input.
University of Wisconsin alumni John Morgridge talks with students
Want to know more? Graduate students gain knowledge in three key areas: creating and assessing the viability of technology-based opportunities; building an organization with people and funding; and applying finance and accounting principles in start-up situations. Watch this short video to see students and instructors describe the goals of the week-long immersion program and visit the WEB 2009 application site. Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Bootcamp (2008) photos.
INSITE faculty play important roles as both advisors and instructors in this cutting-edge program.
The boot camp concluded July 24, 2009.
Creativity, Law and Entrepreneurship Workshop . Led by INSITE faculty member Shubha Ghosh, Professor, Law, on April 24, 2009, this day-long workshop brought legal scholars together to discuss the nature of the impact of law on promoting or inhibiting creativity and the implications for entrepreneurship.
Research and Publications
INSITE faculty publish in top journals in their respective fields. Recent articles by cluster faculty appear in: Academy of Management Journal, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Management Science, and the UCLA Law Review.
Curricular Innovations
Doctoral minor in entrepreneurship (non-business students)
Are you a student interested in learning more about theories of entrepreneurship? Want to know more about where new organizations come from and how you might use theories in learning, law, economics and other disciplines to study company formation, performance and more? UW-Madison offers a PhD minor in entrepreneurship for non-business students. Please see this FAQ for more information.
Featured INSITE Course
"Emerging Entrepreneurship Theory and Research" course (MHR 977), offered in Fall 2009 on Tuesdays from 3:30 PM - 5:25 PM.
INSITE faculty develop and deliver new courses in several colleges and school at UW-Madison.
Events
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Speaker Series
These public sessions are free and open to the community. Information on the 2009-2010 talks will be made available in summer 2009.
- Research Seminar Series. Working seminars on cutting-edge research related to technology and entrepreneurship. [Fall 2009 speaker series: details]
- Policy and Practice Seminar Series. Public lectures with policy makers, community leaders and entrepreneurs on different aspects of technology and entrepreneurship. [Spring 2009 speaker series: details]
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Conferences
Technology Entrepreneurship & Institutions. Led by Anne Miner (Management and Human Resources) and Brad Barham (Agricultural and Applied Economics), the conference attracted researchers from around the world for productive exchanges on entrepreneurship and institutional theory. Among the organizing committee members of the 2008 event were: Pam Haunschild (UT Austin); Paul Hirsch (Northwestern); Daniel Kleinman (UW-Madison); Wes Sine (Cornell); Gordon Smith (BYU); Marie Thursby (Georgia Tech); and Lynne Zucker (UCLA). This conference was sponsored by the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy with additional support provided by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Past: 2008 Conference, 2007 Conference and 2006 Conference.
Support
INSITE was created by the UW-Madison Cluster Hire Initiative. Additional support comes from the Wisconsin School of Business, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Law.
The Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy awarded a 3-year, $125,000 collaborative research grant to INSITE (2006 through 2008) for faculty who examined different dimensions of technology entrepreneurship and institutional dynamics in an international context. Based at UW-Madison, WAGE fosters study into contemporary processes of globalization and international economic integration.
Additional support was provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for the 2008 Technology Entrepreneurship and Institutions conference.
Noteworthy
NEW Updated INSITE guide to UW-Madison entrepreneurship resources. Find peers, professional contacts, help for your own company and more!
NEW INSITE brochure.
This overview of the entrepreneurial community in the Madison area provides a helpful orientation to important area institutions.
All UW students are eligible to compete in the G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition for up to $10,000 in prize money! Double bonus: have a plan that may address climate change in some way? You may enter your Burrill plan in the Climate Leadership Challenge 2010 contest for a shot at another $20,000 prize!
Campus-wide entrepreneurship event information (includes INSITE and other campus entities): RSS, HTML. On a Mac? Use the NEW INSITE entrepreneurship widget.