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The MIT Enterprise Forum, a non-profit,
volunteer-run organization, promotes the formation and growth of
innovative and technology-oriented businesses in communities
worldwide. The Enterprise Forum, through a series of educational
programs about entrepreneurship, provides networking, leadership
opportunities, and connections to supporting communities.
Participation in the Enterprise Forum is open
to executives, business leaders, venture capitalists, industry and
technology experts, and emerging entrepreneurs, as well as to all
MIT graduates.
Events feature local entrepreneurs, venture
capitalists, business leaders, scientists and engineers – as well as
video and satellite links to industry and technology visionaries
presenting in other chapters around the world.
Networking connections developed among
technology entrepreneurs in the local community are especially
valuable. Through the Enterprise Forum, MIT is developing an
entrepreneurial ecosystem that offers limitless mentoring and
networking opportunities as well as a community that promotes
commercialization of new technologies through entrepreneurial
activity. The Enterprise Forum promotes the building of new
technology businesses, whether in start-ups or in new business
ventures within established companies.
The MIT Enterprise Forum was founded in 1978 by
the MIT Alumni Association, and the local chapter, the MIT
Enterprise Forum of Dallas-Fort Worth, was created in 1986. In 1993,
the local Enterprise Forum entered into a partnership with the
University of Texas at Dallas to continue nurturing the
infrastructure for technology-oriented businesses in the North Texas
area. There are 24 chapters of the Enterprise Forum around the
world.
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