The Weinert Center is the home of entrepreneurship education in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW). The center is dedicated to teaching, research, and service related to entrepreneurial management and enterprise development across the entire UW campus.
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There you go. My name is Randy Schneider and I'm the assistant softball coach here at the University of Wisconsin. Lead with that elbow. I act as the hitting coach here, and so I think you really have to develop an understanding of biomechanics and physics. When I started studying things like that, that's when I felt like I became a better hitting coach. Good job. So the sensor itself is smaller than the knob of the bat, so we put it on the bat just like that. My name is Peter Oppermann. I'm a second year MBA student here at UW. I'm one of the co-founders of Sensori Athletics. We're a sports technology company that's just focused on trying to make athletics more fun and insightful for athletes at all levels. You ready to take a few more swings there? Yeah. Alright, slugger. What we'll do is we pair this wirelessly with bluetooth to an iphone or an ipad or other tablet, and then you can just go through your hitting workout continuously and we'll just be streaming data there and collecting all the hundreds of data points a second on every single movement you're making with the bat. Good job, Chanel. It's going to be great for coaches. By getting the instant feedback, it now makes you a little bit smarter about what you're telling the kid, and I think it's going to help identify what's going on with the swing, the swing path, everything else. And it's going to help me to identify things that I don't see with my eyes. What we can see is we can see a last thirty day view of a particular player, so how fast you're accelerating, decelerating, what's happening at contact. With all the data that you provide on this, I mean I love it. I think it'll be great for our hitters. So one of the awesome things about doing a startup here on campus is that there's just tons of support both within your own program and then across the whole campus. So we've had help from the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship and the Wisconsin School of Business, help from the Morgridge Institute and the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, the Biomechanics Lab, and then obviously the connection directly with Coach Schneider here and the softball program. And he's done an awesome job giving us feedback on really the things we can change and the data and information that's important to present to really make the product as useful as possible. I think we have a responsibility as educators to assist them and do what we can to get them where they need to be. We're going to work hard for them.
History
Although the first entrepreneurship course was in 1982, the center was created in 1987. It was renamed in 1999 after James J. Weinert, an alumnus of the School of Business. For the past two decades, the University of Wisconsin–Madison has been involved in entrepreneurship education, outreach and research.
Overview
The Weinert Center is a resource for students interested in entrepreneurship. Students take one or more courses in entrepreneurship and other related topics in preparation for roles as business owners and managers, venture capitalists, or consultants to smaller businesses. They are trained to innovate, launch and grow businesses and pursue entrepreneurial dreams.
The center supports UW undergraduate and graduate students, conducts research in the field of entrepreneurship, assists local business ventures via class projects, and contributes to public policy debate on issues related to entrepreneurship.
In 2010, the Weinert Center at the Wisconsin School of Business was named a top 25 program by Entrepreneur Magazine and the Princeton Review for both graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurial education.[1] The Financial Times has also named it one of the top entrepreneurship programs in the world.[citation needed] The MBA program in Entrepreneurial Management was named the 2009 “National Model MBA Entrepreneurship Program” by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), a national network of entrepreneurship educators, professional practitioners, researchers and government policy makers.[2]
Entrepreneurial management curriculum
Students individually tailor their programs by taking entrepreneurship electives from both the Wisconsin School of Business and across the UW campus.
WAVE practicum
Many graduate students attend the capstone course Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship (WAVE) which provides them with an applied practicum in starting and growing entrepreneurial businesses. The practicum involves a weekly seminar, hands-on work using lean start-up tools, and interaction with local and national experts on a variety of topics important to the education of budding entrepreneurs.
Students also use the WAVE program as a platform to launch their own ventures. The Weinert Ventures Funds is available to make equity investments in promising student start-ups.
WAVE Investment Fund
Students are eligible to apply for up to $100,000 in investment capital for their start-up businesses. This fund was made possible by an initial gift from James Weinert. Bruce D. Neviaser donated significantly to this investment fund in honor of his father, Daniel H. Neviaser, a prominent Madison civic leader and WAVE advisor.
Student organizations
Weinert Center students are involved with many student organizations campus-wide including:
- University of Wisconsin Entrepreneur Association
- Net Impact
- Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
- MBA Global Business Program
Student competitions
Students have received support from the center and had success in the following competitions:
- UW Business Plan Competition
- Moot Business Plan Competition
- Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Competition
- Elevator Pitch Olympics at the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium
References
- ^ "UW-Madison entrepreneurship programs make top 25 list". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
- ^ "Entrepreneurship Education Award Winners - USASBE". www.usasbe.org. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
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This page was last edited on 27 February 2024, at 18:16