"To remove barriers and create gateways for those who seek the entrepreneurial path."
- Charles H. Matthews, Ph.D., Founder and Executive Director, UC Center for Entrepreneurship Education & Research
Provide a state-of-the-art entrepreneurship curriculum not only for potential entrepreneurs, but for people in the many organizations that interact with small, entrepreneurial and family owned businesses on a daily basis. To foster corporate venturing for organizations which seek a dynamic future over complacency. To encourage, support, and conduct timely and meaningful research in the small, entrepreneurial, and family business fields, as well as in corporate settings. To foster collaborative research efforts among academic colleagues as well as practitioners. To provide practical hands-on advice and council to small, entrepreneurial, and family business ventures. To serve as a local, regional, national, and international resource to students, businesses, and educators in the business and academic communities interested in entrepreneurial and corporate venturing advancement. The UC Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Research seeks to prepare its constituents to succeed in a dynamic and changing business environment through excellence in teaching, research, and service by: Facilitating the teaching and learning of fundamental knowledge and skills required for innovation, creativity, strategic thinking, and decision-making under conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity. Conducting innovative research on the theory and practice of identifying and capitalizing on emerging business opportunities both individually and within corporate settings; and promoting a dynamic community interaction built on teamwork, excellence, integrity and a quest for life-long learning.
