FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION (founded 2002) At REE 2003 Dr. Alan L. Carsrud Center Director Dr. Joyce Elam Executive Dean, College of Business Dr. Vish Prasad Dean, College of Engineering Dr. Richard Shoephoester Chair, Biomedical Engineering Contact at entrepreneurship@fiu.edu Or visit our web page at www.entrepreneurship.fiu.edu
FIU Center Vision and Goals Creating Entrepreneurial Leaders And Organizations In All Areas Of Society. To Be A Recognized Leader In Entrepreneurship Education And Research Within Five Years. To Be A Broadly Research Based And Academically Diverse Program That Is Nationally Ranked Within Ten Years. Built On: Research, Teaching (With Action Components In Courses), Outreach campus wide and in the Americas, Interdisciplinary, And International Orientation
Audience: All graduate and undergraduate students at FIU: 35,000 students Center operates across the campus and services all FIU schools & colleges Faculty: Currently four permanent including University President, 6 adjunct, 4 administrative staff,2 new tenure line positions starting 2004 (one business, one engineering) Courses Offered: At Graduate Level: New Venture Initiation, Technology Product & Service Development, Business Plan Development, Issues in Family Owned & Managed Business, Creativity and Innovation, and Technology In American Society. Four courses at the undergraduate level.
Program Highlight #1 FIU Faculty Committee M. Maidique, A. Carsrud, C. Bates J. Morris, L. Rodriguez F. Sanchez, Z. Bell M. Bell, K.G. Klock S.M. Lee, K. Lipartito R. Schoepoester S. Kundu K. Krippendorff Council of Advisors (Key Donors, Business And Community Leaders) FIU President & Provost Center Board Of Governors Director Alan Carsrud Center for Global Entrepreneurial Leadership & Innovation FIU Trustees Deans of Participating FIU Colleges (Arts & Sciences, Business, Chapman Graduate, Engineering, Hospitality, Health & Urban Affairs) External Academic Advisors Prof. Dale Myers Prof. Malin Brannback Prof. Gerry Hills International Family Business Academic Technology Roundtable Research in on Entrepreneurship Education Entrepreneurship Programs Entrepreneurship Dr. R. Cardoso-Scholar - Program Highlights &- Innovation Director-Ofer Amit Entrepreneurship in Society
Program Highlight #2 for Research In In Entrepreneurship FIU Faculty Visiting Eminent Scholar Dr. Richard Cardoso FIU Doctoral Research Fellows Entrepreneurship Research Monographs Visiting International Scholar Maija Renko Wertheim-Kauffman Thought Leader Series Dr.Richard Harrison U of Edinburgh Dr. Gerald Hills U of Illinois Dr. Malin Brannback Abo Academi Dr. Paul Reynolds Babson & LBS Dr. G. Dale Myers U of Colorado FIU Creativity & Innovation Conference Ms. Cathy Leff Dr. George Shepeard FIU International Entrepreneurship Conference Dr. Sumit Kundu
FIU Colleges Program Highlight #2 Technology Entrepreneurship & Innovation Ofer Amit - Director Los Angeles de Miami - Miami Angels FIU Incubators (Virtual & Facility Based) GAP (Global Accelerator Program) Science & Engineering Graduate Students GAP Partners Various MBA & International MBA Programs International Research Universities Other International Technology Sources