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}} The Weinert Center is the home of entrepreneurship education in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The center is dedicated to teaching, research, and service pertaining to entrepreneurial management and enterprise development across the entire UW campus. HistoryAlthough the first entrepreneurship course was in 1982, the Center was created in 1987. It was renamed in 1999 after James J. Weinert, an alumnus of the School of Business. For the past two decades, the University of Wisconsin–Madison has been involved in entrepreneurship education, outreach and research. OverviewThe Weinert Center is a resource for students interested in entrepreneurship. Students take one or more courses in entrepreneurship and other related topics in preparation for roles as business owners and managers, venture capitalists, or consultants to smaller businesses. They are trained to innovate, launch & grow businesses and pursue entrepreneurial dreams. The center supports the UW undergraduate and graduate students, conducts research in the field of entrepreneurship, assists local business ventures via class projects, and contributes to public policy debate on issues related to entrepreneurship. The Weinert Center at the Wisconsin School of Business has been named a top 25 program by Entrepreneur Magazine and the Princeton Review for both graduate & undergraduate entrepreneurial education.{{cn|date=July 2015}} The Financial Times has also named it one of the top entrepreneurship programs in the world.{{cn|date=July 2015}} The MBA program in Entrepreneurial Management was named the 2009 “National Model MBA Entrepreneurship Program” by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), a national network of entrepreneurship educators, professional practitioners, researchers and government policy makers.{{cn|date=July 2015}} Entrepreneurial management curriculumStudents individually tailor their programs by taking entrepreneurship electives from both the Wisconsin School of Business and from across the UW campus. WAVE practicumMany graduate students attend the capstone course Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship (WAVE) class that provides them with an applied practicum in starting and growing entrepreneurial businesses. The practicum involves a weekly seminar, hands-on work using lean start-up tools, and interaction with local and national experts on a variety of topics important to the education of budding entrepreneurs. Students also use the WAVE program as a platform to launch their own ventures. The Weinert Ventures Funds is available to make equity investments in promising student start-ups WAVE Investment FundStudents are eligible to apply for up to $100,000 in investment capital for their start-up businesses. This fund was made possible by an initial gift from James Weinert. Bruce D. Neviaser donated significantly to this investment fund in honor of his father, Daniel H. Neviaser, a prominent Madison civic leader and WAVE advisor. Student organizationsWeinert Center students are involved with many student organizations campus-wide including:
Student competitionsStudents have received support from the Center and had success in the following competitions:
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