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Boston Globe Article Features YEP! Young Entrepreneurs of Providence
Ivy League, local high school students, look to close economic income gaps through entrepreneurship | A free incubator program for students in college towns, the Young Entrepreneurs Program has worked with 12 different Providence public schools, By Alexa Gagosz Globe...
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Accessibility, health equity and community take center state in student B-Lab ventures
Accessibility, health equity and community take center stage in student B-Lab ventures News from Brown,Maggie Spear, September 30, 2022 The work of the 2022 cohort of the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship’s student venture accelerator culminated in presentations and...
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Breakthrough Lab 2022: Recap
In June, the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship opened its doors to 13 student ventures for Breakthrough Lab (B-Lab) our eight-week summer accelerator program. While founders came to B-Lab from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds most were relatively new to the...
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A Celebratory Return: 2022 Brown Venture Prize Pitch Night
After two years online, the fifth annual Brown Venture Prize Pitch Night returned in full celebration for an in-person event held in Alumnae Hall. The Brown Venture Prize, designed to empower the most advanced entrepreneurial ventures by Brown students, received...
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Tuesdays in Tokyo | Yasuhiro Yamakawa, Ph.D., President, CIC Japan
We are pleased to host Yasuhiro Yamakawa, Ph.D., President Cambridge Innovation Center, CIC Japan as part of our Japan Synapse | Tuesdays in Tokyo series. CIC was founded in Cambridge, MA, and globally runs innovation centers, which support entrepreneurs and startups....
read moreNelson Center’s 2021 Year in Review
Despite the challenges we all faced this past year, we are grateful that through the support of the Nelson Center community we can look back and find many moments of joy, learning, and growth. Whether virtually or in person, the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship...
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