Ain Center for Entrepreneurship

Four Rochester students and one alumnus developed a start-up venture called Penpal, a digital business card to help students network.

Barbers and stylists connect with us as humans, care for communities, and make us feel whole, says ClipDart founder Kyle Parker ’18.

Entrepreneur Craig Dubitsky ’87 has teamed up with actor Robert Downey Jr. to create Happy, a brand with a social mission.

Started and operated by Rochester undergraduates, WetWare Biosystems incorporates new medical technologies into existing equipment to stem the effects of traumatic brain injuries.

Four Rochester teams will advance in the Hult Prize, the world’s largest social entrepreneurship contest. The challenge this year: “Harnessing the power of energy to transform the lives of 10 million people.”

University and Simon Business school teams will compete this Saturday for a place in the Hult Prize competition, the largest social entrepreneurship competition in the world.

The Simon Business School is one of the nation's top schools for entrepreneurship studies, according to the Princeton Review, which placed Simon at number 21 among graduate schools, up two places from last year.

Over the next three years, 18 professors from the eastern European nation will have had the chance to take classes, meet business leaders, and return home to incorporate what they’ve learned into their own programs.

Oasis Foods, a start-up run by three Simon Business School MBA candidates, is an example of the social entrepreneurship the Ain Center for Entrepreneurship hopes to encourage with a $538,000 federal Economic Development Administration grant.

This week's Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers will bring more than 400 expects from around the world to Rochester to discuss the evolving nature of entrepreneurship and how the centers can make impacts the move their communities forward.