Falcone Center Earns 2004 NASDAQ Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence Award

The Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University, as well as the Entrepreneurship Center at Stanford University, have been honored with the 2004 NASDAQ Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence Award. This special recognition is bestowed annually at the annual meetings of the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (NCEC). NCEC represents some 160 entrepreneurship centers around the country.

This prestigious award was created by NASDAQ in association with the NCEC for the purpose of recognizing the unique achievements and outstanding efforts of entrepreneurship centers across the United States. The selections are made by a panel of previous award winners and professors of entrepreneurship at some of the leading programs in the country. The honor is bestowed upon entrepreneurship centers that have made remarkable advancements in the entrepreneurial field in the following areas: entrepreneurship research, outreach to emerging ventures, entrepreneurship curriculum, community collaborations, special projects, and overall prestige and recognition in the entrepreneurship field. The NASDAQ Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence award honors those centers that have made and will continue to make enormous contributions in advancing entrepreneurship as the force in economic growth throughout the world.

Falcone Center director Nola Miyasaki accepted the award at the 2004 conference, held in Portland, Ore., September 30-October 2.

The NCEC conferences were developed to bring together the best entrepreneurship centers in the United States. They promote collaboration among entrepreneurship center directors to foster improvements in curriculum, research, outreach projects, and financial support for entrepreneurship programs. They have become the vehicle by which the top established entrepreneurship centers, as well as the newer emerging centers, can work together to share information and advance the impact of their programs.

Photo: Nola Miyasaki, Falcone Center director, and Michael Morris, Chris Witting Chair in Entrepreneurship and chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises, consult with officers of the student entrepreneurship club Joe Cassara '05 BS and Joel Semel '05 BS.
Douglas Lloyd Photography