Chris Holman welcomes Neil Kane, Director of Undergraduate Entrepreneurship of Michigan State University to talk about how entrepreneurship is creating a culture on college campus. Entrepreneurship is now a minor option for undergrads and embodies a resourceful and unique set of skills that can further help students in the future. MSU has around 600 students that participate in this unique program that began in the winter of 2016. The program is open to anyone across campus, in any major and in any college. For more information about the Entrepreneurship & Innovation program visit: https://entrepreneurship.msu.edu/
Neil Kane, the quintessential serial entrepreneur, is a leading authority on technology commercialization, entrepreneurship and innovation. He is the former co-Executive Director of the Illinois Technology Enterprise Center at Argonne National Laboratory and was Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Illinois and Northern Illinois University. He has been the CEO of startup companies in areas as diverse as consumer packaged goods, toys, nanotechnology, Internet marketplaces, medical diagnostics and energy storage.
He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from The University of Chicago. He attended graduate school at the Australian Graduate School of Management and studied in Japan on a scholarship from JETRO. Named a 2007 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, he twice attended their annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. He has been recognized for Outstanding Entrepreneurship by the National Science Foundation and twice was an invited witness on technology transfer for the U.S. House of Representative’s Subcommittee on Research & Science Education. He was also a mentor in the very first cohort of NSF’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program taught by Steve Blank at Stanford University.
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