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The Kauffman Campus Initiative (KCI)
at the University of Texas at El Paso was established in
2004 through a grant funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation. The overarching goal of the Kauffman Campus
Initiative is to enhance the economic development of the
region by supporting an end-to-end process for establishing
innovative enterprises. The goals of KCI are as follows:
- Contribute to the body of knowledge (BOK) on
entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on Hispanic entrepreneurship.
- Educate and develop students, faculty, staff,
and members of the community from a broad range
of disciplines on entrepreneurship.
- Promote entrepreneurship in the university and
the region.
The impact of KCI has reached across
the UTEP’s campus with involvement of faculty in the colleges
of Business, Education, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Science,
as well as the School of Nursing. The efforts of UTEP’s
KCI are being sustained through two centers: the Center
of Hispanic Entrepreneurship and the Center for Research
Entrepreneurship (CfHE) that fosters the generation, transformation
and use of knowledge regarding Hispanic entrepreneurship;
and the Center for Research Entrepreneurship and Innovative
Enterprises (CREIE) that will realize the goal of enhancing
economic development in the region. Because of its initiatives
and programs on entrepreneurship, UTEP’s KCI was recognized
in Fortune Small Business magazine, and it received
attention in the New York Times.
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