The word entrepreneur is working its way into the mindset of the University of Michigan.
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The University of Michigan's embrace of entrepreneurialism as its academic centerpiece and business connection driver is leading to a leadership transition.
Thomas Zurbuchen, founding director of U-M's two-year-old Center for Entrepreneurship, is being promoted to associate dean for entrepreneurial programs at the College of Engineering, a new position for the university.
The university has hired serial entrepreneur Doug Neal as the first full-time director of the Center for Entrepreneurship.
Zurbuchen will maintain oversight of the Center for Entrepreneurship, which has methodically integrated entrepreneurship into academic programs and various business engagement activities. The CFE works collaboratively with the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Ross School of Business and various student organizations, including MPowered.
Zurbuchen said the university's increasing emphasis on the importance of entrepreneurship is reflective of the economic transition Michigan needs to embrace.
"This is a hugely aggressive stance relative to entrepreneurship," he said. "What this will allow us to do is make entrepreneurship much more pervasive across the board, as opposed to just the Center for Entrepreneurship."
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