Entrepreneurship

Acadia Centre for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
A service provider of career and entrepreneurial development assistance to students, existing and potential small business operators, and communities in Acadia, Canada.
http://acsbe.acadiau.ca/

Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship - Babson College
Focus: enhance entrepreneurship education and practice worldwide through teaching, outreach, and research initiatives
http://www.babson.edu/entrep/

Baylor University: Center for Entrepreneurship
Developing and perpetuating the entrepreneurial spirit through education and outreach programs
http://hsb.baylor.edu/entrepreneur/

Carolina Entrepreneurship Club
Organization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for interested students, professors, and local entrepreneurs.
http://www.cecunc.org/

Center for Innovation - Univ. of North Dakota
Focus: assistance for technology entrepreneurs, innovators, and manufacturers interested in starting new ventures, commercializing new products, and licensing new technologies
http://www.innovators.net

Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Santa Clara University
Focus: teaching, research, mentoring, forums and conferences regarding the creation and management of innovation and entrepreneurial ventures
http://business.scu.edu/CIE/

Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship
CIIE, established at IIM Ahmedabad, India aims to incubate technology based innovations and help commercialize them.
http://ciieindia.org

Connect
Focus: San Diego-centric entrepreneurism - University of California at San Diego.
http://www.connect.org/

Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship
Focus: facilitating, supporting, and encouraging entrepreneurship and new enterprise growth throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region - University of Maryland
http://www.bmgt.umd.edu/Dingman/

Entrepreneurial Fellows Center, University of Pittsburgh
Provides management education programs to enable the leaders of the region's established businesses to grow their firms.
http://www.entrefellows.katz.pitt.edu/

Entrepreneurship Research Alliance
Focus: promotes entrepreneurship and encourages dialog and cooperation between the University of British Columbia and the business community.
http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/research/research_centres/era/overview/index.cfm/

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Focuses on entrepreneurship and on education, with Kansas City serving as an incubator for academic programs. Describes funding guidelines, past initiatives, and publications.
http://www.kauffman.org/

Health Care Entrepreneurship Program (HCEP)
Focus: Boston University business development group that supports the creation of entrepreneurial businesses in health care focusing on very early stage business development.
http://www.bu.edu/hcep/

James L. Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law
Focus: improve training of transactional lawyers through the University of Tennessee College of Law curriculum.
http://www.law.utk.edu/CENTERS/ENTREP/centersclaytonb1.htm

JMI - The Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship
located at Florida State University
http://www.cob.fsu.edu/jmi/

Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation - UC Berkeley
Focus: study and promotion of entrepreneurship and innovation in management and new enterprise development
http://entrepreneurship.berkeley.edu/

Midwest Entrepreneurial Education Center - Ball State University
Focus: help Midwest entrepreneurs by offering relevant educational programs and activities
http://www.bsu.edu/entrepreneurship/

National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers
Nonprofit brings together more than 60 leading entrepreneurship centers at U.S. business schools to promote improvements in curriculum, research and collaborative projects.
http://www.nationalconsortium.org

Saint Francis University - Small Business Development Center
Offers consulting services related to start-up to small businesses in the southern Alleghenies region.
http://www.francis.edu/sbdc/

Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies
Program at the University of Michigan Business School.
http://www.zli.bus.umich.edu/

Stanford Graduate School of Business Conference on Entrepreneurship
Annual conference about the entrepreneurial process
http://www.econference.org/

Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs
Focus: global research, learning and outreach to entrepreneurs both within existing organizations and via independent start-ups.
http://www.wep.wharton.upenn.edu/

Wharton Small Business Development Center
Provides research and business assistance to small businesses in the greater Philadelphia region.
http://whartonsbdc.wharton.upenn.edu/