Six People to Know in NC State Entrepreneurship

Laura Braverman, ExitEvent writer, posted this story about the role of NC State faculty, staff and alumni – including Poole College’s Lewis Sheats – in spurring innovation and economic development. The story was reposted on The Expert Generalist blog.

Local universities continue to be one of our startup community’s greatest assets—not only do they educate and produce talent that feeds into the startup community but they train students to become entrepreneurs and they employ professors and researchers who develop and commercialize groundbreaking innovation.

There’s a team of people on every campus that help to connect faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members with various programs and opportunities, all to promote innovation and economic development in the state of North Carolina.

In the first of a series of Q&As with university leaders across the state, meet some of the folks making it happen at NC State University.