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Clarkson University’s Shipley Center named finalist for international award

Posted 10/10/19

POTSDAM – Clarkson University’s Shipley Center was recently named a top five finalist for the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers’ (GCEC) Outstanding Contributions to Venture Creation …

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Clarkson University’s Shipley Center named finalist for international award

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POTSDAM – Clarkson University’s Shipley Center was recently named a top five finalist for the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers’ (GCEC) Outstanding Contributions to Venture Creation Award.

The GCEC held their conference and the awards ceremony last month in Stockholm, Sweden.

The nomination form mentioned various businesses that exist in the North Country today due to the help of the Shipley Center including Agbotic, Birch Boys Chaga Tea, LC Drives, and Parker’s Real Maple products.

The Shipley Center partners with other academic institutions, chambers of commerce, industrial development authorities, and angel investors, among others, to keep grow companies and to provide specialized resources to their network.

Ashley Sweeney, the associate director of the Shipley Center, and Erin Draper, the managing director for Clarkson Ignite, attended the ceremony and conference in Sweden last month.

The GCEC addresses emerging topics of importance to the nation’s university-based centers for entrepreneurship, according to Clarkson officials.

“It has become the vehicle by which the top, established entrepreneurship centers, as well as emerging centers, can work together to share best practices, develop programs and initiatives, and collaborate and assist each other in advancing, strengthening, and celebrating the role of universities in teaching the entrepreneurs of tomorrow,” a release from Clarkson said.