Events

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Speaker Series

The 2008-2009 seminar series is co-sponsored by INSITE and the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship. These public sessions are free and open to the community.

• Research Seminar Series. Working seminars on cutting-edge research related to technology and entrepreneurship. [Fall 2008 speaker series: details]
• Policy and Practice Seminar Series. Public lectures with policy makers, community leaders and entrepreneurs on different aspects of technology and entrepreneurship. [Fall 2008 speaker series: details]

Are you a PhD student at UW interested in entrepreneurship research? Want to go deeper into the material in the Research Seminar Series? Enroll in the new "Emerging Entrepreneurship Theory and Research" course.

 

Conferences

Led by Anne Miner (Management and Human Resources) and Brad Barham (Agricultural and Applied Economics), the annual conference draws researchers together from around the world for productive exchanges on entrepreneurship and institutional theory. The 2008 INSITE Technology Entrepreneurship and Institutions Conference was held in Madison on Monday, June 9 and Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at the Pyle Center. Among the organizing committee members are: 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 is sponsored by the Center fo World Affairs and the Global Economy with additional support provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Prior conferences: 2007 Conference or the 2006 Conference.

 

Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Boot Camp

Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Bootcamp (WEB) photos from the 2008 week-long immersion program here. Graduate students gained 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 Want to know more? Watch this short video.

 

Curricular Innovations

New doctoral minor in entrepreneurship for non-business students

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 now offers a PhD minor in entrepreneurship for non-business students. Please see this FAQ for more information.

 

Course: Emerging Entrepreneurship Theory and Research

Emerging Entrepreneurship Theory and Research course (MHR 977), offered Tuesdays from 3:30 PM - 5:25 PM.

 

Support

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 provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for the 2008 annual conference.