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“Even with a good idea, you need to be more creativs with financing,” Olszewski adding that startup businesses may haveto self-finance untio the economy gets stronger. UW-Madison also is set to launch its thirc annual entrepreneurialboot camp, an intensee program for graduate students in engineering and law. Conducted over five, 12-hour classe days, the program introduces students to theskills needed, and issuez faced in technology entrepreneurship. UW-Whitewater will launch an entrepreneurship major inJanuary 2010. The campus also has receivefd funding from the business community to offefr an independent studies program in entrepreneurshithis summer.
“The students we have in classw are going to be facing a global job markeftthat we’ve never seen said Debra Malewicki, an assistant professor of management. “Students must think entrepreneuriallyand strategically, even if they don’g go into business for themselves.” For many UW-Whitewater has offered a business plan which will serve as the capstonwe for the major. “We’re very focusefd on encouraging students tostart high-impact not businesses such as coffee shops,” she UW-Whitewater expects to have about 70 students in the entrepreneurialo class each semester.
The expansion of entrepreneurship programs is a positive development for students and for the potential positivs impact onthe state’s economy, UW-Madison’s Olszewski said. “I thinmk it’s a clearly a good thing for the he said. “It’s a very collaborative field.”