Testimonials
Pallet House team member, Steve Marciniak, talks about the benefits of the Access Grid meeting
Sheffield SIFE really welcomed the opportunity to pitch two of their business ideas at the WUN Global event. The chance to present to and receive specific feedback from the global WUN community was incredibly useful to us in developing our thinking and ideas. Getting feedback from new sources across the world is vital in honing our plans, and we are keenly looking forward to the WUN International Enterprise competition in April.
Professor Peter Marsh
Academic Director of the White Rose CETL Enterprise at Sheffield
Pallet House team member, Steve Marciniak, talks about the benefits of the Access Grid meeting
Sheffield SIFE really welcomed the opportunity to pitch two of their business ideas at the WUN Global event. The chance to present to and receive specific feedback from the global WUN community was incredibly useful to us in developing our thinking and ideas. Getting feedback from new sources across the world is vital in honing our plans, and we are keenly looking forward to the WUN International Enterprise competition in April.
Professor Peter Marsh
Academic Director of the White Rose CETL Enterprise at Sheffield
Anthony Santarelli, from the Match Grove team talks about his global experience during the WUN Access Grid meeting and idea-pitch.
Entrepreneurship is a creative activity that extends across many areas of human endeavor. Both of those aspects were admirably displayed at the WUN Chicago conference that I attended last fall. Projects were presented by scholars with an interest in job training, in economic development, in media and social movements, in literature and culture as well as the traditional new venture creation. Such a disparate group was woven together skillfully by the organizers into a tapestry of approaches, questions, and solutions to pieces of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship. It was a rewarding few days.
Steven Michael
Professor - Business Administration - University of Illinois
Blaine Fahey of the Pallet House team comments on his WUN Access Grid experience during Global Entrepreneurship Week.
I attended the Chicago and Leeds conferences of the WUN and unfortunately will not be able to attend their conference in China. These were great forums to meet individuals from very different disciplines from across the world and to listen to truly entrepreneurial ideas in a variety of realms. These conferences were intellectually stimulating and a great opportunity for networking with people from across the world from a variety of disciplines. The forums were about the right size and format to allow for productive interactions between participants. Thank you WUN and the wonderful people who put these conferences together!
Madhu Viswanathan
Professor - Business Administration - University of Illinois
Attending the WUN conference in Chicago was an important opportunity to gain a global perspective of entrepreneurship, especially social entrepreneurship. I already work with international, multicultural and multilingual aspects of social entrepreneurship in my course on Spanish & Entrepreneurship, but the attendees at the meeting were from all around the globe, thus enriching my viewpoints and the examples that I can use with my students. One attendee from Australia even pointed out that they don't use the word "entrepreneurship" with the same meaning that we do.
An attendee from England presented on social entrepreneurship in Asia, and I was able to use the example of Burmese refugee/immigrant workers in Singapore as an example in my own class to emphasize that while we see "the immigration issue" as Latin America immigration to the US, in fact there are global immigration patterns that we need to be aware of. Finally, I even learned a great deal from my own colleagues from UIUC. I especially enjoyed listening to the people involved with the Institute for Genomic Biology explain the genesis and practices of that Institute. Even though I am from the humanities, their example gave me ideas about how to approach collaborations, identify external problems related to one's research field, and build economic sustainability into an intellectual enterprise.
Ann Abbott
Professor - Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
