Mason Enterprise Center Offers Services, Programs to International Audience
While the Mason Enterprise Center (MEC) is best known for its business assistance and incubation programs that serve the small start-up and emerging growth companies, it also extends the professional metro area's services and assistance to similar enterprises abroad.
In China (Beijing, Qingdao, Jianan, Wei Hai City, Shaoxing, Dahlian, Harbin, Urimxia (Sinkiang), Shenzhen and Dongguan, Wuhan and Jiangdu City), the MEC assessed performance outcomes of various technology incubation programs and continues to work with many of these programs under Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
In India, the MEC is working with the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) and Technology (IIT) to assist in the development of a curriculum for entrepreneurship tracks as well as enterprise development outreach programs. MOU's also exist with programs in the Delhi region (MDI, IIFT, IMT and BMIT) and in Lucknow (IIM), Jamshedpur (XLRI), and Bangalore (IIsc and IIM) and with proposed programs developing in Mumbi (IIT) and Kolkata (IIM).
In Europe, the MEC has a number of similar relationships. Faculty from George Mason University’s School of Public Policy (SPP) and other academic units are also involved more generally in annual entrepreneurship research conferences that MEC co-sponsors with the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam, Jonkoping University and the University of the West in Uddevalla, Sweden. Breaking with tradition, the 2005 Tinbergen conference was held at the George Mason campus, and this year’s Uddevalla conference will be held at the university in June.
For more information about the School of Public Policy's MEC, visit the Mason Enterprise Center web site.
Content contributed by Dr. Roger Stough and Keith Segerson, Mason Enterprise Center