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National Entrepreneurship Week, Feb. 25-March 3

The Office of Corporate Relations (OCR) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been hosting a number of programs for Entrepreneurship Week USA, a national effort to inspire and encourage young people to consider entrepreneurship as a career choice and to celebrate America's unique culture of inventiveness. The theme of the week, which began Feb. 25  and runs through March 3, is "What's Your Big Idea? Take It On!"

UW-Madison's participation comes at a particularly opportune time. The campus recently was named one of eight Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation "Kauffman Campuses." As such, it will receive $5 million over five years to stimulate awareness of entrepreneurship campus-wide, to help students from any part of campus access the skills of entrepreneurship, and to spur greater research commercialization statewide.

To kick off the campus-wide effort, the university held a forum called "Make Your Passion Your Profession" on Feb. 28. Students had the opportunity to hear from several successful young entrepreneurs, including current or former UW-Madison students.

As part of National Entrepreneurship Week, several School of Business initiatives were highlighted, including the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship, the G. Steven Burrill Technology Business Plan Competition and the Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship (INSITE).

For more information, go to http://www.wiscontrepreneurship.org