Entrepreneurship involves the study of the process of starting new businesses, and the factors that affect their success or failure.
Sites in this category focus on academic research and assistance programs devoted to entrepreneurship.
Focus: facilitating, supporting, and encouraging entrepreneurship and new enterprise growth throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region - University of Maryland http://www.bmgt.umd.edu/Dingman/
The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Clearinghouse on Entrepreneurship Education is an online collection of articles, videos, and websites related to entrepreneurship education. http://www.celcee.edu
Focus: assistance for technology entrepreneurs, innovators, and manufacturers interested in starting new ventures, commercializing new products, and licensing new technologies http://www.innovators.net
Nonprofit brings together more than 60 leading entrepreneurship centers at U.S. business schools to promote improvements in curriculum, research and collaborative projects. http://www.nationalconsortium.org
Focus: assist and encourage entrepreneurs to attain their goal of self-employment through the creation of new and exciting businesses. http://www.ec.ms.ic.ac.uk
Focus: Boston University business development group that supports the creation of entrepreneurial businesses in health care focusing on very early stage business development. http://www.bu.edu/hcep/
Focus: global research, learning and outreach to entrepreneurs both within existing organizations and via independent start-ups. http://www.wep.wharton.upenn.edu/
Focus: teaching, research, mentoring, forums and conferences regarding the creation and management of innovation and entrepreneurial ventures http://business.scu.edu/CIE/main/
Focus: technology-oriented virtual business incubator offering a process providing a clear pathway from laboratory innovation to commercial market. http://www.pantherlabworks.pitt.edu/
Program of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, funded by the Office of Naval Research and administered by the National Center of Supercomputing Applications. http://www.trecc.org/
The Wharton Small Business Development Center provides reseach and business assistance to small businesses in the greater Philadelphia region. http://whartonsbdc.wharton.upenn.edu/
The Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute’s VentureCatalyst Program supports technology commercialization at the University of Maryland through education, mentoring, networking, and hands-on incubation programs. http://www.venturecatalyst.umd.edu
Provides management education programs to enable the leaders of the region's established businesses to grow their firms. http://www.entrefellows.katz.pitt.edu/
A noncommercial site dedicated to encouraging entrepreneurship among young people serious about starting a business on the web. http://www.highschoolstartups.com/
Integrates the activities of faculty, students and small business clients by linking with R&D firms, creating commercialization opportunities and identifying business issues that require public policy attention. http://www.umrceo.net/
Entrepreneurship organization that connects students, faculty and entrepreneurs who have needs or opportunities. It works closely with other student organizations and multiple disciplines across the University of Texas at Austin. http://www.texen.org