Advancing the Discipline

Beyond outreach and service, the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship believes in long-range planning and advancement of entrepreneurship education as a key contributor to economic and academic health.

To that end, significant resources of the center are targeted to far-reaching advancement programs, including:

Entrepreneurship Education Survey Project
Chairing a project identified by the 2002 National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (NCEC) in which conference participants were asked to design a tool that captures and showcases the tremendous scope and impact of the industry of entrepreneurship education—and, importantly, to not detract from it. Key objective of the project is to understand how each individual program can be most fairly represented from a non-exclusionary perspective. Activities included a survey of center and program directors, assembly and analysis of feedback, allowing key themes to emerge; identification of representative categories based on key themes; and development measurement criteria for representative categories. Survey will be finalized for use in early 2004.

NCEC
Serving on Executive Board.

United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE)
Serving as Education Division program chair and vice president elect

Model Program
In honor, designated as model program at undergraduate and graduate levels. In practice, hosting over 30 programs per year for visits and studies to gather information on successful McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship programs.

Tech/Knowledge Transfer Programs
From business plan development, Associates programs, feasibility studies, a formal memorandum of understanding and designation of student business plans as protected IP, the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship has forged trails increasing entrepreneurial capacity at the UA, across Arizona, and among other entrepreneurship centers and programs.
  

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