Tuesday, March 12, 2013

McCune awards $7 million, to the Innovation Ecosystem Strategic Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University

Recently, McCune awarded its first "big idea" grant, $7 million, to the Innovation Ecosystem Strategic Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University to launch a Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship focused on new business and job creation in western Pennsylvania. "Funds will be used to endow financial aid for undergraduate and graduate students that are on an entrepreneurial/innovation track, support course development in this field, increase staff capacity and create start-up and gap funds," McCune Foundation board chair Michael M. Edwards said in a statement in the foundation's 2012 annual report... Read More»

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