March 5, 2007
The Louisiana Business and Technology Center at LSU’s E. J. Ourso
College of Business has been named the winner of the Southern Growth Policies
Board 2007 Innovator Award.
The LBTC’s Mobile Entrepreneurship Training Program was chosen from
more than 100 nominees in the southeast region of the United States in recognition
of its substantial contributions toward workforce and economic development.
Representatives from the LBTC will travel to St. Louis, Mo. during June 3-5
to participate in the Southern Workforce Summit Conference. As one of 14
innovators in the southern region, the Mobile Entrepreneurship Training Program
will be honored in an awards ceremony hosted by Missouri Governor Matt Blunt
on Sunday, June 3, 2007, at the Hyatt Regency in St. Louis.
“The Mobile Classroom has become a model program for rural entrepreneurship
training as we have developed an effective mechanism to bring entrepreneurial
training to the underserved rural areas of Louisiana and the communities
impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita,” stated Charles D ’Agostino,
executive director of the LBTC.
“The Southern Growth Policies Board is an innovation think tank that
offers ideas and programs to build a better South and that has a mission
to benchmark success and overcome weaknesses in the entire southern region.
It was a great honor for LSU and the LBTC’s Rural Entrepreneurship
Program to be selected for its most innovative program award. Louisiana will
get great recognition for this award and will be called upon to assist other
states in replicating this successful concept,” continued D ’Agostino.
For more information about the LBTC and its initiatives, please visit www.bus.lsu.edu/centers/lbtc.
Wendy Osborn Luedtke
LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business
225-578-8865
