Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford, February 21-28, 2010
Why conduct a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship at Stanford, when the entrepreneurial spirit is so completely pervasive here? After all, our university president, John Hennessy, is a very successful entrepreneur. Many of our faculty, staff, alumni and even current students have started businesses or somehow bring extremely entrepreneurial approaches to their work. There are at least two dozen organizations on campus related to entrepreneurship. And we took part in the birth of Silicon Valley, the breeding ground of some of the world's greatest innovations and companies.
The answer is simple. It's a chance to bring all of us together for a week and focus on a theme that we take rather for granted around here - the importance of entrepreneurial leadership and the role it must play in helping to solve some of the world's most pressing problems.
Entrepreneurship is of enormous interest on campus, because the Stanford community recognizes that the 21st Century will belong to innovators who can turn ideas into action. This applies more than ever to today's students and everyone else in society. We all need to be self starters and possess an entrepreneurial mindset, regardless of what we go on to do in life.
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