A Conversation on Minority Entrepreneurship
A CONVERSATION ON MINORITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Dr. John Sibley Butler
Executive Director, Institute for Creativity and Collaboration
John Sibley Butler is the director of both the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and the Institute for Innovation and Creativity (IC2) at the University of Texas in Austin. The IC2 is an internationally recognized “think and do” tank devoted to solving unstructured problems to accelerate wealth, job creation and prosperity. Dr. Butler’s research is in the areas of new ventures, immigrant and minority entrepreneurship, and organizational behavior and entrepreneurship.
His books include Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans:
A Reconsideration of Race and Economics, Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship,
All That We Can Be: Black Leadership, and Racial Integration the Army Way.
Professor Butler has appeared on over 30 radio and television programs. His research has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, US News and World Report and other newspapers and magazines across America.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center
Lecture: 9:30 a.m.
Panel Discussion: 10:30 a.m.
Register at www.NewCarolina.org.
Admission free.
Presented by: South Carolina Council on Competitiveness, the South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus and the South Carolina Department of Commerce
Co-Sponsors
Benedict College Business Development Center
Columbia College Alliance for Women
Columbia Urban League
Corporation for Economic Opportunity
EngenuitySC
Faber Center for Entrepreneurship, USC
FastTrac
Hispanic Outreach
InnoVenture
Municipal Association of SC
Palmetto Institute
Sandhills Research and Education Center, Clemson
SC Association of Community Development Corporations
SC Association of Counties
SC Chamber of Commerce
SC Commission for Minority Affairs
SC Economic Developers Association
SC Minority Business Development Center
SC Office of Small and Minority Business Assistance
SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce
SC Small Business Development Center
SC State Conference NAACP
SC Technical College System
Spiro Center for Entrepreneurial Development, Clemson
Urban League of the Upstate