College of Engineering to launch country's first entrepreneurial degree program

Chicago Tribune (May 24) -- The College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign plans to launch a new degree program that will let students pursue ideas that could develop into companies. The Innovation, Leadership and Engineering Entrepreneurship program will be project-based and build on classes and programming already offered through the university’s Technology Entrepreneur Center. The degree will join an already robust entrepreneurial system at Illinois. The university’s Research Park is home to an incubator, a venture fund and dozens of startups and companies. Also: Chicago Inno (May 24), News-Gazette (May 25).