We have known for a long time that Entrepreneurship cannot just be taught to traditional business students. With 50% of our economy comprised of entrepreneurial ventures, including small businesses of all varieties, we knew we had to find ways to take it across the campuses at our colleges and universities.
I attended our big entrepreneurship academic conference last week, and this change is clearly taking place. We had faculty from Art, Engineering, Music, Pharmacy, Math, Music Business, Graphic Design, Sociology, just to name a few, at a conference that for years has been attended by mostly business faculty. We had about 100 sign up for a pre-conference I ran on innovative ways to take Entrepreneurship into other programs across campus.
Academia, as slow as we are at times to react to change, is responding to the new economy.
Sadly, the new Congress is viewing the world as if we were in the 1950s, worrying about the minimum wage, limiting CEO salaries and corporate profits, and increasing taxes, rather than addressing how the newly emerging entrepreneurial economy can be supported through fewer regulations, lower taxes and a new tax code, and freer markets.
