Michael W. Fountain, Ph.D., MBA
Director, Center for Entrepreneurship,
John & Beverley Grant Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship Professor, Industrial & Management Systems Engineering & Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine

"Dare to be exceptional, be unwilling to accept mediocrity, strive for excellence and always be willing to give back freely to others. By living these principles in our personal and professional lives, I believe that each and every one of us can make a difference to enable the Center for Entrepreneurship to operate as the program of excellence in entrepreneurial education at USF." -

Audio Clip from 2004 Interview with Dr. Fountain after the Center received a national entrepreneurship award from USASBE

Center Overview

The Center for Entrepreneurship is a multi-disciplinary, campus-wide center focusing on entrepreneurial education, training, and research.  The vision of the USF Center for Entrepreneurship is to create an internationally recognized Center of Excellence for educating and training entrepreneurial leaders using innovative, interdisciplinary approaches. The Center seeks to create unique learning opportunities through partnerships among students, faculty and community entrepreneurial leaders. These partnerships leverage the strengths of all participants to create a nationally recognized program which enables students, faculty and entrepreneurial leaders to develop the critical skills necessary to (1) identify new opportunities (2) accelerate the commercialization of new technologies and (3) create and grow successful new business ventures.   

We are very excited to have Frank Morsani as the first Executive Entrepreneur in Residence at the Center for Entrepreneurship.  He will play an ongoing role as a speaker in our classes, providing input on our research agenda, and in evaluating technology for commercialization.  In addition, as a successful entrepreneur, he will serve as a role model and mentor to our students.

AWARDS

2007 - USF Ranked #9
in the country by the Princeton Review as one of the 2007 Top Entrepreneurial Graduate Programs

2006 - Innovative Pedagogy for Entrepreneurship Education (Interdisciplinary Technology Entrepreneurship)

2005 - National Outstanding Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Course (The Strategic Market Assessment for New Technologies)

2004 - National Outstanding Specialty Entrepreneurship Program (Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Entrepreneurship)

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