Des Moines Register
02-11-07
Grants target ISU entrepreneurial programs
Twenty-six employees of Iowa State University have received grants of up to
$5,000 each to create entrepreneurial programs in each of ISU’s seven colleges.
The awards totaling nearly $200,000 were created by the ISU Pappajohn
Center for Entrepreneurship with money from the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation in Kansas City.
Management professor Howard Van Auken will help faculty at each of the
colleges create programs that range from an online retail store for artwork in the
design college, to efforts to place veterinary medicine interns with innovative
animal-health businesses. Another proposal will have foreign-language students
learn about entrepreneurship in the countries whose languages they study.
Separately, the Kauffman Foundation will provide $40,000 to create a repository
of ISU’s entrepreneurship resources and to develop a course on creativity and
recognizing business opportunities.