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The Daily OrangeEntrepreneurship grant split among 20 SU, local leaders
By Alex Kish
Posted: 11/1/07, 1:09 AM EST Section: News
Freshman David Rosen said funding from grants would benefit Syracuse students.
"A lot of students have ideas for businesses, but (the grants) could be a way to turn it into reality," the information and system technologies major said.
Kingma plans to announce the recipients of these smaller grants in two to three weeks.
The Enitiative project will focus on encouraging entrepreneurship in three areas: technology, neighborhoods and art.
David Rezak's entrepreneurship project falls under the art group. Rezak, director of Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries, received $20,000 in grant money to help bring new speakers to the Soyars Leadership Lecture Series.
The series, which is part of Bandier's curriculum, brings major players in the music industry to Syracuse. With his improved budget for the program, Rezak said he hopes to use the money to attract entrepreneurs to campus such as singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, who created her own record label, and Napster creator Shawn Fanning.
"I'd like to try to bring in some young people who are really relevant, who are free thinkers," Rezak said.
Rezak also plans to use the grant to bring students to the Billboard Digital Live Music Conference, in which speakers discuss progressive music industry policy and help student-run record labels create digital commerce.
Rezak said all of SU should look for ways to find entrepreneurial opportunities.
"Entrepreneurship doesn't end at the walls of the Whitman school," Rezak said.
The city of Syracuse is a target for the Enitiative project because it is already economically challenged, said Michael Morris, an SU entrepreneurship professor.
"The challenges are unique and some of the difficulties are tougher (than other cities), but I think that's why entrepreneurship is especially critical," Morris said. "Entrepreneurship is about disruption, it's about change, it's about challenging the existing order."
Morris also remarked about the university's plans to implement entrepreneurial modules in courses across campus.
"I see a day when there is a course called arts entrepreneurship," Morris said.
Sophomore Evan Brown said incorporating new modules would be beneficial for SU students. Although he is taking an introductory entrepreneurship course through Whitman, the broadcast journalism major agreed that campus-wide modules would stimulate knowledge of the field.
"So many people these days don't know what it is," Brown said of entrepreneurship. "By incorporating the concept of entrepreneurship across campus, I think it can do nothing but enrich our curriculum experience."
"A lot of students have ideas for businesses, but (the grants) could be a way to turn it into reality," the information and system technologies major said.
Kingma plans to announce the recipients of these smaller grants in two to three weeks.
The Enitiative project will focus on encouraging entrepreneurship in three areas: technology, neighborhoods and art.
David Rezak's entrepreneurship project falls under the art group. Rezak, director of Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries, received $20,000 in grant money to help bring new speakers to the Soyars Leadership Lecture Series.
The series, which is part of Bandier's curriculum, brings major players in the music industry to Syracuse. With his improved budget for the program, Rezak said he hopes to use the money to attract entrepreneurs to campus such as singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, who created her own record label, and Napster creator Shawn Fanning.
"I'd like to try to bring in some young people who are really relevant, who are free thinkers," Rezak said.
Rezak also plans to use the grant to bring students to the Billboard Digital Live Music Conference, in which speakers discuss progressive music industry policy and help student-run record labels create digital commerce.
Rezak said all of SU should look for ways to find entrepreneurial opportunities.
"Entrepreneurship doesn't end at the walls of the Whitman school," Rezak said.
The city of Syracuse is a target for the Enitiative project because it is already economically challenged, said Michael Morris, an SU entrepreneurship professor.
"The challenges are unique and some of the difficulties are tougher (than other cities), but I think that's why entrepreneurship is especially critical," Morris said. "Entrepreneurship is about disruption, it's about change, it's about challenging the existing order."
Morris also remarked about the university's plans to implement entrepreneurial modules in courses across campus.
"I see a day when there is a course called arts entrepreneurship," Morris said.
Sophomore Evan Brown said incorporating new modules would be beneficial for SU students. Although he is taking an introductory entrepreneurship course through Whitman, the broadcast journalism major agreed that campus-wide modules would stimulate knowledge of the field.
"So many people these days don't know what it is," Brown said of entrepreneurship. "By incorporating the concept of entrepreneurship across campus, I think it can do nothing but enrich our curriculum experience."
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