The Entrepreneurship Program at Oklahoma State University is a home for dreamers and doers. It is also the most comprehensive entrepreneurship program in the country. Our fundamental belief is that all students have immense entrepreneurial potential, and we are here to help you discover and act upon that potential. For us, entrepreneurship is an approach to life built around innovativeness, calculated risk-taking, and proactive behavior. It can be applied in start-up firms, non-profit organizations, high growth companies, large corporations, and government organizations. It can also be applied in a person’s daily life---in finding and implementing creative solutions to problems in your family, school, church, and community. Entrepreneurs are ordinary people who do extraordinary things. They change the world one venture at a time. With passion and tenacity, coupled with vision and purpose, coupled with discipline and principles, they create the future. They learn how to adapt, how to leverage resources, how to bootstrap and how to think and act like a guerrilla. Sometimes this results in commercial ventures that produce profits and wealth---and sometimes it results in social ventures that produce social benefits, such as a cleaner environment, home ownership for those that could never afford it, or computer literacy for the economically deprived. Our theme is IMAGINE > BELIEVE > CREATE. We want students to dream big dreams, but also to believe in themselves and in their dreams. Most importantly, we want students to take responsibility for acting on their dreams---for implementing their creative concepts. We accomplish all of this with a highly innovative curriculum consisting of over twenty courses taught through the School of Entrepreneurship. But this is only the beginning, as our product is built around the principle of total student immersion. Students are encouraged to build a portfolio of entrepreneurial experiences. This portfolio could include business plans for original venture concepts, business models, consulting projects for small business, entrepreneurial audits of companies, feasibility studies, marketing inventions, entrepreneurial internships, and much more. Through the Riata Center for Entrepreneurship, we have unique ways for students to get involved in experiential learning from their first semester as a semester through the end of a graduate program. These diverse opportunities range from living in our Entrepreneurship Dormitory to having a venture in our Student Incubator to participating in our South Africa consulting program with historically disadvantaged entrepreneurs each Summer. Students can be part of our women’s initiative (Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship), our Disabled Veterans Entrepreneurship program, our community entrepreneurship bootcamps, our Seed Capital Fund, and our technology commercialization program, among many other opportunities. The Entrepreneurship Program serves students from every discipline on campus and at every level, from freshmen to graduate students. For undergraduate students, we offer a major, a minor for business students, and a minor for non-business students. For MBA students, we offer a concentration in entrepreneurship. And for doctoral students we offer a Ph.D. in entrepreneurship. Finally, the Entrepreneurship Program is committed to providing thought leadership to entrepreneurs and those who seek to support entrepreneurs. As such, we pursue an exciting agenda of leading edge research on some of the most provocative questions within the discipline of entrepreneurship.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 23:51:16 +0000
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