Business classes are not a prerequisite for entrepreneurship, but some of the most storied startup founders say they benefited from academic courses and experiential learning opportunities.
During the recent Global Entrepreneurship Summit held at Stanford, the Stanford Center for International Development convened a session on entrepreneurship in China. The event featured Jean Liu, president of Didi Chuxing, a ride sharing company often called “the Uber of China.”
An undergraduate entrepreneurship program run by Stanford ChEM-H is helping students design and test new drugs to combat the antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, President Barack Obama discussed how to empower people to foster the kind of innovation characteristic of Stanford.
The world is moving faster than ever, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said at Stanford on Thursday, and we won’t solve major issues like climate change without the contributions of this generation’s entrepreneurs.
The Global Entrepreneurship Summit, hosted by the White House, came to campus this week. In addition to highlighting Stanford's role in fostering entrepreneurship worldwide, we document the signs and sounds of this three-day event.
For more than half a century, Stanford University has incubated ideas, educated entrepreneurs and fostered breakthrough technologies that have been instrumental in the rise of Silicon Valley.
