Babson Creates Entrepreneurship Policy and Development Program
Babson College has created the first Entrepreneurship Policy and Development Program specifically targeted to policy makers and public and private sector leaders. The program will encourage civic leaders, foundation heads, executives, private sector representatives, and public policy makers to create and apply entrepreneurship policies. As part of the program, students will discuss relevant case examples from all over the world, and use practical tools and cutting edge assessment methodologies to develop policies. Students will also study some of the newest perspectives on entrepreneurship policy development. The course will be part of Babson College’s executive education program, and it will last for four days.
David Isenberg, a professor of Entrepreneurship Practice for Babson’s Executive and Enterprise Education and the Faculty Director of Babson’s Entrepreneurship Policy and Development Program, observes that world leaders are increasingly realizing that entrepreneurship is a key factor in economic growth and development. Babson’s program aims to help leaders learn what role policy can play in supporting entrepreneurship. Isenberg says: “Our Entrepreneurship Policy and Development Program explores how leaders can integrate the entrepreneurship drivers such as policy, markets, finance, human capital, culture, and institutional supports, that must come together to create entrepreneurship ecosystems in which ventures can grow, not just get started.”
The course will meet from March 10-13, 2014. The program fee of $4,500 covers tuition, meals, and accommodations at Babson’s Executive Conference Center. To learn more about the Entrepreneurship Policy and Development Program at Babson College or to register for the program, visit the program site.
