.@bradkeywell: Entrepreneurship at Universities -- 311 Years Late - The Accelerators - WSJ

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The creators? Four Carnegie Mellon University students who germinated the idea in a 2012 school startup lab. They’ve since moved to Silicon Valley and been awarded a spot in Y Combinator. While the first college in the U.S. was established in 1636, the first college course in entrepreneurship didn’t emerge until about 310 years later. How bizarre it is that entrepreneurship — the heart of who we are as a nation — did not become a course until about 170 years after the signing of our Declaration of Independence? Business competitions, now an expected part of school landscapes, didn’t even exist until some ambitious students at The University of Texas at Austin launched one about 30 years ago.

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