Wake Forest wins NSF grant to boost entrepreneurship through community partnerships

“We want to create and sustain an environment that fosters entrepreneurial thinking and action across the entire campus,” Best said. “We at Wake Forest believe that a liberal arts education and entrepreneurial thinking can be mutually reinforcing concepts. The legacy of this project will be realized in programs and infrastructures instituted in liberal arts colleges and universities throughout the country modeled on the best practices that we identify.”

The National Science Foundation has awarded Wake Forest University a grant totaling $596,679 to create a network of private sector, nonprofit and local government partnerships designed to fuel innovation and launch new entrepreneurial ventures.

Elizabeth Gatewood, director of the Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts, and Deborah Best, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will direct the three-year project titled, “Partnerships for Innovation: Creating Academic Community Partnerships: Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship in a Liberal Arts Institution.”

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