DETROIT (AP) — Entrepreneurship and technology are the focus of the fourth annual Techstars Startup Week in Detroit.

Organizers say the five-day free event starts Monday and brings together...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — In a night of commanding words from some of the most accomplished women in entertainment at the annual Women in Film Gala Wednesday night in Beverly Hills, from the...

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Kihirha Coleman is grateful for what her family has given her: support, love, attention.

But she also knows her family, like many in Camden, probably won't be able to...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Every business starts as an idea.

Sometimes they grow from small seeds, others materialize in a flash, but they all had to start somewhere.

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Can CEOs be born in a basement?

Groups in the Columbus-Phenix City area that are dedicated to help small businesses thrive are banking on it. And so is Columbus State...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College has developed a website to provide information about global menstrual health.

The site, which debuted Tuesday, provides educators, entrepreneurs and...

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — A new effort at a history attraction in suburban Detroit is designed to help offer hands-on learning opportunities to the next generation of entrepreneurs.

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Construction is getting underway on a $200 million project to integrate engineering, computer science and entrepreneurship at Dartmouth College.

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The OU Tom Love Innovation Hub turned into a trade show floor recently, as the inaugural Entrepreneurship Expo brought out investors, onlookers and plenty of ideas.

Some came with established ideas, such as Real Kitchen Salsa, the Loveworks, Inc. facilitated company run by middle schoolers. OU alumni living nearby brought their ideas and innovations to share.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Leaders of startups from Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame are expected to participate in a business pitch competition.

The public event will be held Thursday in the Purdue Railyard co-working space in the Kurz Purdue Technology Center in West Lafayette.

Four startups from each school will take part in the competition sponsored by venture capital firm BlueSky Capital and conducted in partnership with the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Entrepreneurs looking for help turning innovative ideas into thriving businesses can attend a forum in Manchester this month.

U.S. Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan is hosting the Innovate NH Entrepreneurship Forum on Nov. 13 at Manchester Community College. The event will include workshops on topics such as funding, creating a business plan, managing social media as a start-up and women business ownership.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — Minot State University is offering a new Bachelor of Science in entrepreneurship this fall.

Students in the new entrepreneurship program are required to take the university's fundamental business courses, in addition to 30 credit hours focused on entrepreneurship, the Minot Daily News reported. Minot State is also offering a certificate in entrepreneurship.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia University official who has offered guidance to students looking to start their own businesses has been hired for an administrative job on campus that focuses on entrepreneurship.

WVU Provost Joyce McConnell says Carrie White, the former director of the WVU LaunchLab, has been named assistant vice president for entrepreneurship and innovation at the university. White fills the open position following a national search.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Palestinian startup company touted as a model for Gaza entrepreneurship is struggling to recover after its office was badly damaged last weekend in an Israeli airstrike.

The office of Haweya for Information Technology was among dozens of buildings damaged on Saturday in a flare up violence between Israel and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that rules Gaza.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University says a foundation has made a $17 million commitment to the university's business college to set up an entrepreneurship center.

Ohio State says the Keenan Family Foundation made the commitment for the Tim and Kathleen Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship. The center will focus on cultivating students' entrepreneurial skills and creating an enriched extracurricular experience around entrepreneurship.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An associate professor of philosophy at the University of New Orleans has been awarded a three-year, $1.8 million grant to study entrepreneurship patterns in urban communities.

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — An entrepreneurship center at the University of New Hampshire has received a $360,000 donation from a charitable foundation to expand several programs.

The Patten Family Foundation also helped fund two pilot programs when the "ECenter" first opened in 2015. The foundation's founder Harry Patten, a UNH graduate, says that he has met many students who never dreamed they could launch their ideas into reality until they were helped by the center.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — An eastern Nebraska high school will soon welcome a new coffee shop on campus, created and run by students.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A new Indiana investment fund aims to support entrepreneurship, launch careers and help the next generation of commerce.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A nearly $454,000 federal grant will go to help a University of Nebraska-Lincoln project to support youth entrepreneurship in rural communities.

The project partners high school students with rural business owners and will be led by Surin Kim, assistant professor in textiles, merchandising and fashion design and a Nebraska Extension entrepreneurship specialist.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Chicago-based firm is preparing to take the reins of a new Indiana-backed venture fund and begin investing up to $250 million this spring.

FLORENCE, S.C. — SiMT Entrepreneurship Day featured an array of speakers and information about business development practices for small-business owners at the Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing and Technology on Tuesday.

Ashley Deaza, director of the Gould Business Incubator at the SiMT, said the Entrepreneurship Day was started in 2017 with the hopes of helping small-business owners get questions answered and learning tools to help them kick start their work.

HICKORY, N.C. (AP) — The bottom line for any business is making a profit, but Lenoir-Rhyne University students in Ralph Griffith's entrepreneurship capstone class this semester are learning profit can be defined any many different ways.

His students have reached out to Unique World Gifts in Hickory to work as consultants to find ways they might be able to help the nonprofit grow.

WASHINGTON (AP) — From AT&T's Alexander Graham Bell to Google's Sergey Brin, immigrants have long been more likely than native-born Americans to realize the dream of owning their own company.

"Immigrants are about twice as likely as natives to start new businesses," says Arnobio Morelix, an analyst at the Kauffman Foundation, which promotes entrepreneurship.

YORK, Neb. (AP) — Entrepreneurship development for prison inmates? Really? Yes, really.

Defy Ventures is offering its entrepreneurship, employment and character development training program at Nebraska Correctional Center for Women for the first time.

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in suburban Detroit has been selected to host a gathering of youth inventors from around the world.

The STEMIE Coalition's annual National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo takes place June 1 at the museum in Dearborn. Hundreds of inventors are expected.