UM’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship declared nation’s Best Emerging Program

By Ted Carter, Mississippi Business Journal, Feature Article, January 21, 2016. Ole Miss football isn’t the university’s only up-and-comer on the national stage.

While Hugh Freeze and his coaching crew have instilled the kind of excellence that gave the football team victories in consecutive years over the likes of the Alabama Crimson Tide, mentors at the University of Mississippi Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship have excelled at helping students take business ideas from inception to market. In fact, no one in the United States does it better, according to the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, an organization created in 1997 to help create collaboration among the world’s entrepreneurship centers. Nearly 300 universities from the United States and elsewhere are represented within the group.  Read the full article.