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Purdue University

Completed in 2004, The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship at Purdue, Mr. Morgan´s alma mater, serves as the hub for Discovery Park, an expansive research park with centers for nanotechnology, bioscience, and engineering. Classrooms and a café provide space for entrepreneurship courses, competitions, and interaction among disciplines. The Boston architectural firm of Goody Clancy designed The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship. The Center houses the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, the Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition, the Life Sciences Business Plan Competition, and the Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy, along with other cross-campus programs.

Purdue President France Córdova wrote that “the current mission of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship is to catalyze entrepreneurship and commercialization across the Purdue University community through interdisciplinary education, networking, and business assistance programs. With its location in Purdue’s Discovery Park, The Burton D. Morgan Center serves as a transitioning point between research in Discovery Park and commercialization in Purdue Research Park, thereby exemplifying Purdue’s new strategic plan goal of ‘Discovery to Delivery’.”

Richard A. Cosier, Dean of the Krannert School of Management, wrote that “the Burton D. Morgan Center serves as a nexus for entrepreneurial discussions for the entire Purdue campus. Its placement near Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering and its proximity to many of the facilities that house life sciences laboratories have made it an important meeting area for many faculty and students. Because Discovery Park is an interdisciplinary cluster of centers and projects, faculty often meet there as a central gathering point for all disciplines. The Burton D. Morgan Center is the natural point for these meetings. With several conference rooms of varying size as well as classroom space and lecture space, the facility has attracted students and faculty from every discipline.” He added that “the Burton D. Morgan Center was designed to attract external constituents to the Purdue campus. The facility serves as a point-of-entrance for numerous individuals and groups who wish to interact with Purdue faculty, staff and students on a myriad of entrepreneurial issues. All of Purdue’s Business Plan competitions are held at the Burton D. Morgan Center bringing outside experts as judges and audience members to its meeting rooms.”

Dean Cosier concluded that “the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship is fulfilling its promise to be the birthplace for many of the businesses that will change the economic face of Indiana and the nation in the next century.”