If there is one place where the idea of the ownership society is taking hold, it is America’s colleges and universities. More than 1,600 colleges offer courses in entrepreneurship, up from 1,050 in the early 1990’s and a mere 300 schools in the 80’s.Experts see the surge reflecting profound changes in the American economy. It is a response to globalization and the fact that “two billion people in the world want to do the same job you do,” said Paul Merage, an entrepreneur and philanthropist who endowed the business school at the University of California, Irvine, this year with $30 million.
Mr. Merage, who invented the microwavable frozen snack Hot Pockets, demanded that the curriculum at the newly renamed Merage School of Business stress innovation and ways “to grow a business.”
via Jeff Cornwall.
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Career Intensity Blog - David V. Lorenzo on January 4th, 2006 at 12:25 am
[...] Dane Carlson points us to a NY Times article that captures my thinking on entrepreneurship. Here is the money quote: [...]
Online Business Opportunity on January 4th, 2006 at 2:46 am
Hello:
It is delightful that Dane posted this article because it should be a required mantra for all forward looking individuals.
It is innovation, big business and mass production that made America the most powerful and greatest nation on earth.
So, more business schools and more and more Americans starting home businesses will help to further strengthen America and make her able to maintain its current world business leadership.
Ikey Benney
http://www.mscsrrr.com/mscs2.htm