Kauffman Foundation Welcomes 2012 Global Scholars to Intensive
Six-Month Entrepreneurship Program
Contributed by Marketwire
Jan 17, 2012KANSAS CITY, MO,MARKETWIRE
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today welcomed 19 aspiring
entrepreneurs from the Netherlands, Singapore, Italy, the United
Kingdom and the United States, to its 2012 Global Scholars Program –
an intensive opportunity to immerse themselves in the field of
entrepreneurship.
“We are thrilled that the 2012 class will include U.S. Scholars, in
addition to our participants from abroad. Our goal always has been to
provide a global group of talented aspiring and early-stage
entrepreneurs the opportunity to catalyze their development with
unparalleled training in entrepreneurship,” said Wendy E.F. Torrance,
Global Scholars Program director. “By bringing in American students,
we are expanding that conversation while continuing to foster the
creation of companies by entrepreneurs who are transformative and
born global.”
The selected Scholars are outstanding recent or soon-to-be graduates
in fields ranging from aerospace engineering and industrial
engineering to architecture, business and law. In addition, one
faculty member from Indonesia, supported by the Ciputra Foundation,
will join the class to develop the capacity to train future
Indonesian entrepreneurs.
The nearly six-month Program will provide Scholars with opportunities
to develop insights and perspectives they otherwise would not have
access to and gain a valuable understanding of entrepreneurship and
the skills they will need to be future entrepreneurial leaders.
Through intensive workshops with leading scholars, policy leaders and
business founders, visits to leading American universities and
three-month internships, participants will ultimately develop their
entrepreneurial skills, ideas, competencies and capabilities to start
and grow a business.
The Global Scholars Program began in 2007 in collaboration with the
United Kingdom government, then-Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon
Brown and the National Council of Graduate Entrepreneurship. Since
that time, the Kauffman Foundation has hosted students and faculty
sponsored by governments and organizations from eight countries
representing fourteen nationalities.
“As always, we are looking forward to our experiences with this new
class of outstanding Scholars,” said Torrance. “Watching them take
the leap into entrepreneurship and gain a global perspective while
growing as future entrepreneurial leaders.”
About the Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
is a private nonpartisan foundation that works to harness the power
of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve
human welfare. Through its research and other initiatives, the
Kauffman Foundation aims to open young people’s eyes to the
possibility of entrepreneurship, promote entrepreneurship education,
raise awareness of entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and find
alternative pathways for the commercialization of new knowledge and
technologies. In addition, the Foundation focuses on initiatives in
the Kansas City region to advance students’ math and science skills,
and improve the educational achievement of urban students, including
the Ewing Marion Kauffman School, a college preparatory charter
school for middle and high school students that opened in 2011.
Founded by late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion
Kauffman, the Foundation is based in Kansas City, Mo. and has
approximately $2 billion in assets. For more information, visit
www.kauffman.org, and follow the Foundation on
www.twitter.com/kauffmanfdn and www.facebook.com/kauffmanfdn.
Media contacts: Barb Pruitt (816) 932-1288 bpruitt@kauffman.org Sarah Brewster (816) 842-8111 sarah@trozzolo.com
SOURCE: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
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