{"id":17271,"date":"2012-11-01T09:56:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T13:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?p=17271"},"modified":"2016-06-28T14:03:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:03:03","slug":"brian-baker-speaks-at-iedc-annual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2012\/11\/01\/brian-baker-speaks-at-iedc-annual-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Baker Speaks at IEDC Annual Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p><a href=\"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/2012\/11\/01\/brian-baker-speaks-at-iedc-annual-conference\/baker-brian11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17272\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17272\" style=\"margin: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/Baker-Brian11-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\"><\/a>Brian Baker, Executive Director for Entrepreneurship at the University of Mary Washington presented at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iedconline.org\/AnnualConference\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">International Economic Development Council Annual Conference<\/a> in Houston, Texas on October 1.&nbsp; His topic covered approaches for business assistance employed at the UMW Office of Entrepreneurship.&nbsp; Following the presentation, Baker led a discussion titled &ldquo;Empowering Entrepreneurs.&rdquo;&nbsp; The group discussion enabled colleagues in economic development to explore best practices on approaches to encouraging innovation, small company incubation, support services for business owners, and financing.<\/p><p>The UMW Office of Entrepreneurship is a division of the <a href=\"http:\/\/economicdevelopment.umw.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Economic Development <\/a>and hosts the <a href=\"http:\/\/economicdevelopment.umw.edu\/sbdc\/\" target=\"_blank\">UMW Small Business Development Center<\/a>, the EagleWorks Accelerator and Innovation Program, the Engagement Council, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/vbia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Business Incubation Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/2012\/11\/01\/brian-baker-speaks-at-iedc-annual-conference\/baker-brian11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17272\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17272\" style=\"margin: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/Baker-Brian11-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Brian Baker, Executive Director for Entrepreneurship at the University of Mary Washington presented at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iedconline.org\/AnnualConference\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">International Economic Development Council Annual Conference<\/a> in Houston, Texas on October 1.\u00a0 His topic covered approaches for business assistance employed at the UMW Office of Entrepreneurship.\u00a0 Following the presentation, Baker led a discussion titled &#8220;Empowering Entrepreneurs.&#8221;\u00a0 The group discussion enabled colleagues in economic development to explore best practices on approaches to encouraging innovation, small company incubation, support services for business owners, and financing.<\/p>\n<p>The UMW Office of Entrepreneurship is a division of the <a href=\"http:\/\/economicdevelopment.umw.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Economic Development <\/a>and hosts the <a href=\"http:\/\/economicdevelopment.umw.edu\/sbdc\/\" target=\"_blank\">UMW Small Business Development Center<\/a>, the EagleWorks Accelerator and Innovation Program, the Engagement Council, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/vbia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Business Incubation Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5991,"featured_media":17272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,88],"tags":[1191,228],"class_list":["post-17271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ced-2","category-professional-notes","tag-bbaker","tag-center-for-economic-development","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}