Innovation drives our economy. Entrepreneurship is about the process of commercializing innovation, developing new technologies, creating new businesses, and managing new products and services within existing businesses for people around the world. Learning about entrepreneurship is a vital and growing activity here at WSU.
Through innovative coursework, community service, international business development projects, and other value adding activities you have an opportunity to learn both the theory and practice of entrepreneurship.
Each year the College of Business sponsors university wide business plan competitions in the fall and in the spring for students who want to develop a business plan for their business ideas or inventions. Students of business have teamed up with students from engineering, agriculture, biological science, food science, fine arts, music and other disciplines to design business plans for real world innovations. The judges for the competition are real venture capitalists, bankers, entrepreneurs, and executives, and prize money and scholarships are awarded to top teams.
Entrepreneurship study prepares you to understand how to launch your own new venture, how to take an existing family or small business up to the next level, as well as how to launch and manage a new product or service offering within an existing large business. In fact, demand is high out within corporations for entrepreneurial leaders like our graduates.
Our program has been recognized nationally as one of the best by Entrepreneur Magazine. What better way to launch your new venture or to launch your career as a leader within any business than to study entrepreneurship in a nationally recognized program at a first-rate Pac-10 university? If you are interested in learning more about this exciting field, please see your advisor in Todd 405 or stop by the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in Todd 442.
Best wishes,
Len Jessup, Ph.D.
Markin Endowed Chair in Business Leadership, and
Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies