How this innovation center has become a hub for high-growth technology based companies
Some people believe true entrepreneurs are born.
That the entrepreneurial spirit is something you have or you don’t. But for many business leaders, innovators and captains of industry, entrepreneurship is an ongoing process — supported by working with the right people and the right resources — that allows them to achieve their goals.
“The greatest scientist in the world did not invent the cure for a disease just because they were born. They had years of training, failures and success,” explains Russell Combs, executive director of the Erie Technology Incubator (ETI) at Gannon University. “To become an entrepreneur , you have to mature that passion and temperate it with education, direction and determination, and that’s what we do in business incubation. We help that entrepreneur do a reality check, understand the risk they’re going to take, and then translate that risk into knowledge and opportunity.”
Read more in the October 2009 issue of the Business Magazine.
