I have become very excited by the possibility that they might be

a case that fascinates me is how the best student entrepreneur competition has emerged over last 12 years from the need of over 100 historically black colleges to collaborate around an entrepreneurial program- back in 2000 none existed; today they are centre stage of the best annual comeptition httP://www.ofcvc.org

which I am going down to atlanta to celebrate at end of week thanks to the founder of this entrepreneurial championship: professor bhuiyan

download rules of america's biggest student start up competition

there are also variants of the competition process that will be used to start next university year where winning students get the prize of taking their professors out into societies to solve chalenges and create local jobs - so far 3 states in addition to Georgia have signed up to do their own youth 1000 "jobs brainstorming" late september

Oregon
N. Carolina
Tri-state: MD DC VA

Experience shows that most of the student ideas that emerge from the social solutions competeition could be collaboratively replicated from state to state with matching needs- so what state couldn't gain from a well designed microcredit for battered mothers or a pop up fresh foods delivery system to neigbourhoods in a capital where nutritious food is hard to buy