The Global Entrepreneurship
Education Initiative



Sponsored by:

    
logo   Intel

The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation is proud to partner with Intel Corporation and the Intel Higher Education Group to deliver entrepreneurship education at UC Berkeley worldwide through the Global Entrepreneurship Education Initiative. These three programs link together to build a complete program for building entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial spirit and activity throughout the world.

 

Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley

IBTEC

  

Now in its sixth year, the Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley (formerly the Intel + UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge) is the premier global, technology-focused, business plan competition in the world.  IGC brings the winning teams from university-centric competitions from around the world here to UC Berkeley.


Global Entrepreneurship
Leadership Symposium

GELS

   Held every other year in conjunction with IBTEC, the Global Entrepreneurship Leadership Symposium provides faculty from around the world with details on how to create and operate a multi-disciplinary, multi-functional entrepreneurship center.

Theory to Practice Seminars

Theory to Practice in Budapest

   The Lester Center has offered Theory to Practice entrepreneurship training to educators in Dublin, Madrid, Amsterdam, Gdansk, Budapest (shown at left), Sofia, Mumbai, Bucharest, Istanbul, Cairo, Moscow, Beijing, Sao Paulo, and Monterrey [Mexico]. The two day sessions, each with 20 participants from leading local colleges and universities, provide a highly leveraged and efficient way of enhancing the entrepreneurship training to their respective institutions.



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