Tag Archives: entrepreneurship

UK plans on student visas fail to empower entrepreneurialism

UK plans on student visas fail to empower entrepreneurialism

Well-educated immigrant entrepreneurs often play a crucial role in dynamic economies. In a famous 2006 study, The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy, AnnaLee Saxenian of the University of California, Berkeleystudied the impact of highly skilled immigrants in Silicon Valley. Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers were running nearly a third of the […] … learn more→

Must every student really become an entrepreneur?

Must every student really become an entrepreneur?

In the Flawn Academic Center of the University of Texas at Austin is a spacious room that is not devoted to academic activity. It houses Blackstone Launchpad, which promotes itself as “a program that helps students of all backgrounds navigate the UT entrepreneurship ecosystem”, a pretentious way of saying “create a business”. “Why do we […] … learn more→

Initiation to entrepreneurship is not just about aspiring startups

Initiation to entrepreneurship is not just about aspiring startups

“To offer all students a greater openness to entrepreneurship” is one of the wishesexpressed by Minister Frédérique Vidal to the higher education community in January 2019. Would it be a matter of further stimulating more activity creation and systematically spot potential Bill Gates? The flowering of start-ups is certainly crucial for the French economy. But it turns […] … learn more→

The whistle-stop education

Most American college students haven’t completed a cross-country road trip, let alone a transcontinental train trek. Such journeys give us not only a greater appreciation for the vast nation we tend to fly over, but also the time to reflect on what we see and experience away from the frenzy of daily life. This month, […] … learn more→