A webinar on BUILDING REGIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP SYSTEMS will be held in the United States on Thursday, January 31, 2013 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., U.S. Central Time (17:00 - 18:30 UTC/GMT).  This event is supported by a grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to the bi‐state “State of Ingenuity” (SOI) regional collaborative.  This is the first in a series of webinars that is being developed by Northern Illinois University in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin‐Whitewater, the SOI project coordinator, and other SOI partners.  The SOI region has a membership with PASCAL International Observatory.

 The webinar will feature three national experts who will share their strategies for building a culture of entrepreneurship and how their approaches could be adapted to other regions.

• JACK NEWCOMB will describe his entrepreneurship work in Kansas and other states that began as the QUAD Facilitation Program.

• BRAD FIELD, serial entrepreneur and author, will provide lessons learned from his Boulder (Colorado) Thesis.

• DON MACKE, Director of the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) will moderate the webinar.

Biographical sketches are included on the attached PDF.

The six‐county SOI region is located in southeast Wisconsin and northeast Illinois. The purpose of SOI is to develop a seamless network of entrepreneurial support that will help diversify the regional economy through business and industry growth and retention in existing and emerging clusters.

This webinar is open to other organizations and individuals interested in learning about innovative entrepreneurial approaches.

To register for the webinar and receive access information and links to important background material, visit http://bit.ly/EntrepreneurshipWebinarRSVP. The webinar will be recorded and posted at www.soisourcelink.com<http://www.soisourcelink.com/>.