OMAHA — A $4 million gift has launched a new Creighton University center that will help develop young entrepreneurs and their creative ventures.
The Greisch Center for Enterprise Value was established with a donation from the Diabetes Care Foundation in honor of foundation board member and Creighton alumnus Jim Greisch, the private downtown-Omaha based Creighton University announced Tuesday.
The investment provides for new staff positions, programming and seed money to support student and faculty entrepreneurs. It will be housed in the Heider College of Business but will partner with innovators throughout every school and discipline at Creighton.
Nathan Preheim, the center’s director, said in a statement that he believes the center will put Creighton “on the map as the entrepreneurship hub of higher ed” and attract “out-of-the-box thinkers and doers to Creighton.”…