MBA Entrepreneurship Concentration
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The UT Entrepreneurship Center at the Sykes College of Business
teaches skills critical for anyone
who aspires to be an entrepreneur
or think like one. The vision is to
create a nationally recognized center
for the study of entrepreneurship
through continued development of
UT’s curriculum, and to conduct
leading-edge research in this area.
Through UT’s unique partnership
with Moffitt Cancer Center, graduate
entrepreneurship students work with
physicians to evaluate the feasibility
of developing businesses around
innovative cancer research and
treatment products and services.
Students have been instrumental
in several new biotech ventures
launched by Moffitt scientists
and physicians.
Other programs led by the
Entrepreneurship Center include
business plan competitions and the
Spartan Accelerator, a training
initiative to help students and recent
alumni grow their technology or
Web application businesses.
Select Courses
- Creating and Leading
- New Ventures
- International Entrepreneurship
- Innovation andTechnology Marketing
Where Startups Get Started.
New
businesses create the vast majority of net
new jobs in industrialized countries, and
entrepreneurship is the fastest growing field
of study among college students worldwide.
The entrepreneurship concentration prepares
students for planning, launching, growing and
leading a business, with a focus on creativity
and innovation.
Students benefit from UT’s Entrepreneurship
Center, which teaches them to see
opportunities, prepare an executable business
plan and obtain resources to support that
plan. The entrepreneurship concentration
generally attracts MBA students who have
business ideas of their own and want to
implement them. The program also serves to
develop dynamic business leaders who learn
to incorporate innovation and vision into
existing companies.
Courses involve real-world interactions with
local entrepreneurs and businesses, and
students find opportunities to pitch ideas,
give investor presentations and compete in a
business plan competition. They learn to
approach challenges from a creative,
problem-solving perspective and develop the
hands-on skills and resourceful thinking
needed to build successful businesses. MBA
graduates with the entrepreneurship
concentration may start their own businesses
or go on to be corporate entrepreneurs,
putting their innovative thinking to work for
large organizations. Some choose to follow
the paths of venture capital or social
entrepreneurship. This popular concentration
offers many possibilities.