To some people, entrepreneurship is a dirty word.
“I used to have a piece of paper on entrepreneurship and on one side it said ‘greed’ and ‘exploitation’ and on and on,” said Anne Miner, a professor of management and human resources at UW-Madison’s School of Business. But the other side, she said, had terms like “‘creativity’ and ‘new forms of values’ and ‘self reliance’ and ‘autonomy’ and ‘taking responsibility.'”
Being entrepreneurial is not all about making money or knowing how to develop a business plan, added Miner, who also is the director of the cross-campus Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship. It’s also about looking for creativity and innovation in one’s personal life and across a wide range of disciplines, she said.
And that is the underlying philosophy behind UW-Madison’s newest residential learning community.