International Entrepreneurship

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• International Entrepreneurship
• Education Conference
• Celebration
• November 21, 2008

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• Tommy Goodrow
• Founder, Employee Resource Systems
• Founder, Entrepreneurial Institute
• Founder, National Association for Community
  College
• Entrepreneurship
• Founder, Community College Entrepreneurship
  Alliance
• Vice President, Economic and Business
  Development,
• Springfield Technical Community College

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• Presentation
• Discussion Overview

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• What Is A Business Incubator?

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What are the Best Practices in Providing
Educational and Experiential Support to
Entrepreneurial Students and Incubating Start-Ups?
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Why is Post Incubation Support Necessary for
Sustainability and Business Profitability and
Success?
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What are the Best Practices in
Cooperating/Partnering in Trade and Industry?
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What are the Challenges to Starting a Business
Incubator?
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What are the Challenges to Challenges to
Sustaining a Business Incubator?
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What are the Rewards and Benefits of Business
Incubators?
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Lessons Learned Benchmarking Successful
Business Incubators

• STCC/SBI
• STCC/EI SBI
• NBIA
• NACCE

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Excellence is the result of caring more than
others think is wise, risking more than others
think is safe, dreaming more than others think is
possible. Anonymous
The successful person makes a habit of doing
what the failing person doesnt do. Thomas
Edison, Inventor and Scientist