Center for Entrepreneurship
Winners of Olympus Innovation Awards Announced
S. Michael Camp, Academic Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship , designer of the Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (TEC) Academy and the TEC Institute, won the 2009 Olympus Innovation Award for his work at Ohio State University, where he trains business and science students in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship.
| 2008 Ohio Venture Capital Report |
Business Plan Competition |
 Steady Focus in Uncertain Times The Center for Entrepreneurship manages the Ohio Venture Capital Research Program in collaboration with contributing state and regional partners. |
 The competition has a reached across entrepreneurial silos and provided a platform to encourage business leaders to influence the development of ideas with commercial value. The business plan competition serves as the catalyst for bright, aggressive, and motivated entrepreneurial students. Learn more and get inspired: |
Our Vision and Mission
The Center for Entrepreneurship at Fisher College of Business is an official academic center of The Ohio State University. Launched in November 2001, the Center supports academic research, education and community engagement in entrepreneurship. The Center strives to advance both the science and practice of entrepreneurship so as to stimulate economic growth and development through new company formation, technology commercialization, and improved competitive performance of entrepreneurial ventures.
The founders of the Fisher Center for Entrepreneurship believed that the Center could be the global leader in the development and dissemination of entrepreneurship theory and practice. From this vision, the mission was derived. The mission of the Center for Entrepreneurship is to:
- advance scientific research and development in the field of entrepreneurship;
- provide the highest quality instruction in entrepreneurship, including grounded experiential learning opportunities; and
- stimulate economic growth by accelerating new company formation, enhancing technology commercialization, and improving the strategic and financial performance of high-potential entrepreneurial ventures.
Our mission is derived from three core values:
- to lead the advancement of science and practice in entrepreneurship;
- to educate aspiring and practicing entrepreneurs in the art and science of value creation; and
- to serve the entrepreneurship community (broadly defined) through the effective design and delivery of value-added programs aimed at strengthening the economy.
About the Center for Entrepreneurship: The Center for Entrepreneurship at Fisher College of Business is an official academic center of The Ohio State University. Launched in November 2001, the center supports academic research and education in entrepreneurship. In addition, the center facilitates entrepreneurial learning and experiences that will impact a global economy and stimulates economic growth by assisting new company formation and graduating students who possess strong entrepreneurial skills and experiences.
About Fisher College of Business: Ranked by U.S. News and World Report among the top 30 business schools in the country, The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business offers full-time, part-time and executive MBA, Master of Accounting, Master of Labor and Human Resources and Master of Business Logistics and Engineering programs. The college of business was started in 1916, and was named Fisher College of Business in 1993, in honor of Max M. Fisher, a noted philanthropist, industrialist and alumnus of the college.
