Newsletter – ENTRNews Spring 2023

Spring 2023 Newletter

The Impact of Entrepreneurship Takes on Many Forms

a note from nathalie

Welcome to the spring edition of our Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation newsletter. In this issue, we showcase how the impact of entrepreneurship education can take many forms and doesn’t always fit the traditional model of starting a business from scratch. While many of our young alums go on to create small businesses, scalable startups, and social ventures, many others are putting their entrepreneurial mindset and skills to work in established companies where they are given the opportunity to be creative and develop their ideas. In any case, recent graduates report that entrepreneurial knowledge and skills helped set them apart from their peers during interviews. Once employed, they report that experience with interdisciplinary collaboration, pitching their ideas, conducting market research, and understanding business models gives them a competitive advantage in their early careers.

Featured Story

Celebrating Rita Baker

Rita Baker has been an integral part of the success of the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program since 2007, when she became its second staff member. She began working at Purdue University in April 1980, as a Credentials Analyst for the Office of Admissions, and could have taken any advising job on campus at that time. Instead, her adventurous disposition led her to join Nathalie Duval-Couetil in building a novel, cross-campus, academic startup venture.