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Center For Entrepreneurship Managing Director's Blog
http://cfe.engin.umich.edu/doug-blog
This is a blog from the managing director Doug Neal of the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship discussing topics of entrepreneurship.
Recent Posts
Real-Life Experiences - Written by Thomas Zurbuchen
In every meeting on education and teaching somebody gets up and talks about the tremendous importance of “real-life experiences”. It is obvious from most of these statements and presentations that these experiences are few and far between – esp...
Globalizing Education: A Case for Social Entrepreneurship - Written by Thomas Zurbuchen
This talk was given as part of a panel on Globalization of Education as part of the PanIIT 2009 conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in a Global Economy. I work at the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering. This is an exciting pl...
Top-down and Bottoms-up Research: Universities and Targeted Research - Written by Thomas Zurbuchen
There is a lot of support for “bottoms-up” approaches to University Research. In its best execution, this research creates a fertile ground on which new ideas, new technologies and new solutions grow. Wonderful theses are written, new papers are ...
Top-down and Bottoms-up Research: Bell Labs and University Models - Written by Thomas Zurbuchen
There are two approaches to research. For this discussion, we will call them “Bell Labs” or “Manhattan Project” approaches, according to some of the best research ever performed in the US, but with two approaches that could not be more differ...
Talk To the Customer! - Written by Doug Neal
Someone asked me the other day what magic did I use to resurrect one of my startups from almost certain death. What tremendous insight did I bring to bear or epiphany did I have to change my company from having closed sales of less than $10,000 ove...
Asking the Right Questions - Written by Thomas Zurbuchen
It is very instructive to listen to people and especially to the questions they ask when they are trying to understand a new challenge or solve a problem. Different people ask very different questions, leading to vastly different, and sometimes very ...

