Rensselaer Magazine, June 2003: At Rensselaer

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Management and Technology

Entrepreneurial Prowess

Entrepreneur magazine has named the technological entrepreneurship program at Rensselaer’s Lally School of Management and Technology as one of the 25 best entrepreneurial programs in the nation.

More than 700 entrepreneurship programs were researched for the magazine’s “Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities” feature, which appeared in the April edition. Final listings were based on more than 30 criteria, including curriculum, teaching and research faculty, degrees and certificates offered, research centers and institutes, advisory boards, and business-community outreach.

Rensselaer was lauded for fostering entrepreneurship through its faculty research and publications, the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship, the Office of Technology Commercialization, and Rensselaer’s business incubator, the nation’s first on-campus business incubator. The Lally School’s MBA program also provides students with significant opportunities to interact with an extensive network of successful entrepreneurs and to participate in venture capital presentations.

“Rensselaer has a long track record of success in providing its students the skills they need to take their ideas and technologies to market,” said Denis Simon, dean of Rensselaer’s Lally School. “Our ‘techno-MBA program’ channels the passion and energy of our students, and helps them develop new ideas and concepts into commercially relevant products and services. What differentiates Lally is our first-year MBA course, Design, Manufacturing, and Marketing, which allows students the opportunity to develop, market, and create their own products and services.”

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