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The Beyster Institute's mission is to advance the use of entrepreneurship and employee ownership to build stronger, higher performing enterprises nationally and internationally. Launched in 2002 by the Foundation for Enterprise Development, the Institute is now part of the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego, serving as its key center for entrepreneurial thought and activity. It is the only such university-based center to integrate both employee ownership and entrepreneurship.
The Beyster Institute helps business leaders build successful companies worldwide through training, education and outreach. The Institute serves entrepreneurs by teaching them how to be effective managers and showing them how employee ownership can be adapted to fit their individual companies.
We offer a wide range of informational resources, events, training and consulting services on all aspects of employee ownership and entrepreneurship.
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Beyster Institute Activities
NCEO/Beyster Institute Employee 2008 Ownership Conference
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| Winners of the 2008 Innovations in Employee Ownership Awards |
We had record-breaking attendance at this year's conference in Chicago April 2-4.
As more and more companies choose to share equity with employees in order to build and sustain strong ventures, the Employee Ownership Annual Conference continues to offer the foremost opportunity to learn about best practices and technical issues, get inspired by successful employee-owned companies, and meet leading experts in the field. Visit our blog of daily conference updates including more about this year's Innovations in Employee Ownership Award winners.
Middle East Entrepreneur Training (MEET) Graduates Are
Making an Impact in the Region
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Over 250 alumni of the Beyster Institute’s MEET program continue to collaborate and work toward the goals set during the programs through the MEET alumni website and at alumni events, including a conference planned in Jordan
in June.
This year even more entrepreneurs and businesspeople from the Middle East and North Africa are participating in MEET programs through $1.5 million |
Click on the map above to view how MEET programs are accelerating economic growth throughout the
Middle East and North Africa region. |
| in extended funding from the Middle East Partnership Initiative of the U.S. Department of State. |
  Enterprise Funds White Paper
In 1990, the U.S. Congress authorized $1.2 billion to finance ten Enterprise Funds in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Enterprise Funds have since invested and reinvested some $1.5 billion in more than 500 small and medium enterprises in host countries. On May 24, 2007, these fund pioneers met in Washington to review the results and discuss future prospects for the Funds. Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the program was managed by the Beyster Institute. The conference white paper is now available.
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The Research University and the Development of High-Technology Centers in the United States
Through a World Bank project, Beyster Institute Executive Director Ray Smilor and three Rady MBA students studied the effects of research universities on their surrounding regions, finding that these institutions can serve as instigators, promoters, collaborators and magnets for talent, technological innovation and entrepreneurial activity. Their findings were published in the August issue of Economic Development Quarterly.
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Rady School Learning Consortium
The Beyster Institute is working with the Rady Center for Executive Development to offer a series of 10 half-day courses for entrepreneurs in growth stage companies. These courses are designed to provide entrepreneurs with the essential business skills necessary to advance their company to the next level. |
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