Tag: community interest

2016 Gillespie Business Plan Competition Produces New Businesses

The Ole Miss Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship announced the winners of the 2016 Gillespie Business Plan Competition on April 8, 2016. The competition, sponsored by the Mabus Agency and Renasant Bank in its tenth year, began on February 21. The pool of 40 business teams narrowed to six finalists from which Nimble Fashion prevailed […]

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Students Win Big at First Business Model Competition

The Ole Miss Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosted its first Fall Business Model Competition in October of 2015. The competition focused on turning an idea into a compelling business model. A business model describes how a company creates value for its customers and itself. “Our objective was to get students excited about thinking and starting new […]

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Ole Miss CIE Wins Award for Best New Center for Entrepreneurship

  The University of Mississippi Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship received the Emerging Entrepreneurship Center Award at the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers conference. The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) awarded the University of Mississippi Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) the Emerging Entrepreneurship Award on October 31st at its annual conference in Gainesville, […]

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