THE DREAM IN ACTION

What I’d like to see more of in Chicago is… 1) VC’s and Angels who blog – so that they communicate what is interesting to them and so that they are more accessible or even appear more accessible to the areas entrepreneurs. 2) An increase in the understanding that failure won’t kill you – in [...]

Lots of schools have similar programs already.  They just don’t have huge companies.MSOE will pay for your patents, and still rarely anyone takes them up on it. Why? Students aren’t fundamentally trained to think about growing a business using their engineering skills.  Initiatives like KEEN aim to change that. We’ve actually laid a much better [...]

Well, not exactly. But did you know that… Students create interesting idea using university resources. Students create a company and have an exclusive license to use the technology, which they made at their institution. Institution gets bragging rights and extra revenue for the school. For an entrepreneur to promise a large amount of ROI to [...]