Entrepreneurship News & Announcements

Courtney Klein started out with $1,000 from ASU's Edson program to start her non-profit business. Today, CEO of Global Citizens, Courtney is honored as a top young professional by the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce.

Watch a timely Webcast discussion on America's economic future with the authors of Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity.

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The financial crisis on Wall Street is unprecedented in the post World War II era. Its impact on the real economy presents many difficult questions with little certainty about outcomes. Please join the Council on Philanthropy and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for a discussion with Harold Bradley, chief investment officer at the Kauffman Foundation; Bob Litan, vice president of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation; and John MacDonald, vice president and treasurer at the Hall Family Foundation. This distinguished panel will provide context about where we are in the economic cycle and the risk/reward equation looking ahead. Panelists will also spend time on day-to-day due diligence issues faced by nonprofit leadership.

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Driving Economic Growth:
Innovation and Entrepreneurship at ASU
Innovation is a key factor in economic growth. The entrepreneurship at ASU initiative provides ASU faculty, students and staff with opportunities to become the drivers of innovation both on and off campus. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation recognizes ASU as a leading entrepreneurial university and invested $5 million into ASU’s bold entrepreneurship initiative to branch out across academic disciplines to collaborate, innovate and directly impact the economic needs of our community.

The Arizona Technology Ventures Services Group (TVSG) was launched as a
new and enhanced effort by ASU from its predecessor, the Technology
Ventures Clinic at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.