The new position follows a working group’s recommendation to recruit and maintain a UW-Madison Entrepreneurship Hub.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to create a new administrative unit to collaborate with the business community amid campus-wide budget cuts, led by a new Associate Vice Chancellor for Entrepreneurship who will drive business growth at the university “beyond patents.”
The new Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub (WEH) comes as a result of a working group recommendation and will focus on uniting and galvanizing entrepreneurs across and outside of campus, according to a job description for the chancellor. It comes in the wake of budget cuts, but proponents say its dividends will pay off.
The entrepreneurship chancellor’s principal duties will be identifying “innovative opportunities,” creating and maintaining external governmental, non-profit and industry partnerships, managing employees and directing the Entrepreneurship Hub’s vision and funding strategies.
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