NC State Poole College Announces Recipients of Jenkins MBA Program’s Entrepreneurship Fellowships

Nov. 15, 2011 - PRLog -- Raleigh, N.C. - The North Carolina State University Poole College of Management’s Jenkins MBA program awarded three Entrepreneurship Fellowship awards for the 2011-12 academic year.

Recipients of the new fellowship awards are NC State Jenkins MBA students Michael Teal, Barton Strawn, and James H. Locus III. All three are in the Jenkins MBA program’s technology entrepreneurship and commercialization (TEC) concentration.

As part of their fellowships, the students are assisting faculty and TEC student teams as they use a faculty-developed process to assess the commercialization potential of new technologies being developed in the University of North Carolina system and by other sources. The student teams first screen technologies for commercial potential, then select one technology that they have determined has the greatest potential for success and develop a business plan for it. Increasingly, one or more students from the teams have been taking the classroom experience into the business development stage after graduating from the program.

The three fellowship recipients came into the Jenkins MBA program with prior experience in entrepreneurship or technology. Strawn is an entrepreneur who launched the Lumina Clothing Company in Raleigh, N.C., and says that he is already incorporating his classroom learning into his business operations. Barton has held marketing, consulting and business development roles in several organizations, and Teal was a software engineer before entering the Jenkins MBA program. Both aspire to launching their own businesses.  

The Jenkins MBA program’s Entrepreneurship Fellowships are awarded to first and second year MBA students who show outstanding scholastic accomplishments and who have an expressed interest in technology commercialization.

The NC State Jenkins MBA program emphasizes the management of innovation and technology. It offers full-time, part-time for working professionals, and online options, with seven areas of concentration and seven dual degree options. Its part-time MBA option was ranked 30th by Bloomberg BusinessWeek in rankings published Nov. 11, 2011. Additional information about the NC State Jenkins MBA program and its fellowship opportunities are available online at mba.ncsu.edu.

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The NC State Poole College of Management offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in accounting, business administration and economics, with an emphasis on the management of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and open and custom exec ed.