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Big Idea Center’s new ChangeMaker Series encourages student entrepreneurship

By Elizabeth Primrose, Senior Staff Writer • January 31, 2024

The Big Idea Center aims to provide a place for Pitt students at any level or in any discipline to engage in entrepreneurship and innovation with the new ChangeMaker Series.

Big Idea Center brings innovation to Pitt

By Brittany Zortman | For the Pitt News • July 11, 2018

Pitt students will soon have the opportunity to fit their big ideas into one space — a workplace that will harbor the tools and resources they need to make these ideas a reality. This year the University...

Founders Institute open for entrepreneurship

By Anish Salvi | Staff Writer • April 20, 2018

Randy Eager, a lifelong entrepreneur and Pittsburgh resident of 27 years, realized in the summer of 2017 that Pittsburgh’s entrepreneurial ecosystem lacked two key things — entrepreneur education and...

Pitt Innovation Institute announces Big Idea Center

By Salina Pressimone | Assistant News Editor • April 2, 2018

The University Innovation Institute announced Thursday it will establish a Big Idea Center set to open for the 2018-2019 academic year. The announcement was part of last week’s annual Randall Family...

Pitt Alum has it in the Effin bag

By Prachi Patel | Staff Writer • February 9, 2018

George Patterson reaches into his pocket to pull out his business cards with a glint of amusement in his eyes. “I guarantee, if you read my title, you will laugh,” Patterson said. Stamped under...