At Lowth Entrepreneurship Center, we do not just create companies, we create entrepreneurs

The iaelyon M.Sc. Entrepreneurship and Development of New Companies students visited Lowth Entrepreneurship Center (LEC), an innovative center made to boost creativity, research, knowledge and entrepreneurship studies, at the heart of the Sykes College of Business at Tampa University.

LEC was build to bring together students in entrepreneurship, faculty and senior entrepreneurs in order to identify new entrepreneurial opportunities and create new companies.
 

More than a common learning expedition: a truthful immersion in the entrepreneurial American start-up culture

During this intensive week, rich in knowledge and exchanges, students participated in several events:
 

• Conferences lectured by local entrepreneurs and investors
• A discussion panel on “Perspectives on Global Entrepreneurship”, organized in the framework of Innovate UTampa
• LEC courses to learn how entrepreneurship is taught in the “country of business”
• A visit of the Embarc Collective incubator which is unique for its support system boosting companies’ innovation and development
• A pitch contest with ideas being challenged in the American way
  
    … and a yoga session for entrepreneurs in order to learn how to manage work pressure!

 

"The students also had the privilege of exchanging with Rebecca White, LEC’s director who has been awarded several times and is actively implicated in entrepreneurship education. An inspiring woman who is strongly part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. “

Romain LESAGE, Director of the second-year program of the M.Sc. Entrepreneurship and Development of New Companies and researcher at the CREATE, Magellan Research Center @iaelyon

For Adèle Guillon, student in M.Sc. Entrepreneurship and Development of New Companies, this learning expedition was particularly enriching: "Secret of success: it’s not luck, it’s process. And be careful of the importance of the laws. Ignorance is no excuse" is one of the many advises given to the future entrepreneurs. 


Here, they dare. They do not ask wonder whether they can raise money, they just do it. They do hesitate on taking risk, they dive in and then they adjust their business when needed.”
Colin Balin, student in M.Sc. Entrepreneurship and Development of New Companies


This week was an opportunity to reflect on the limits we set and the way to overcome them.

This learning expedition was organized in the framework of the Graduate School International Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Society @iaelyon.