Social entrepreneurship programs at Yale and Stanford Universities are scheduled for high school students this summer.
In the intervening decades, Tom Cruise has grown up and entrepreneurship programs have boomed.
In 1970 there were 16 entrepreneurship programs nationwide; as of 2000, about 1,500 universities and colleges offered such courses.
At the time, Mr. Schramm recalled, the foundation focused on trying to persuade business schools to begin entrepreneurship programs.
And somewhere in between are schools that instill their entrepreneurship programs with a healthy dose of small-business basics.
Technical universities have been surprisingly ready to include entrepreneurship programs in coursework, but technology students have tended to be less receptive, he said.
Besides Yale's School of Management, which now does award its graduates an M.B.A., there are social entrepreneurship programs at a number of American universities.
Ms. Livingstone said business schools that want to attract more women should offer entrepreneurship programs, because growing numbers of women have been opening their own businesses.
Many in the corrections business are wary of entrepreneurship programs, according to Deborah Mukamal, director of the Prisoner Reentry Institute at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Most notably, there has been tremendous growth in capital, early-stage investors, university entrepreneurship programs, start-up competitions and accelerators, all of which have helped entrepreneurs take advantage of the area's strengths in entertainment, media, business and technology.
Mr. Bricault credits the community's growth to increasing talent, capital, early stage investors, university entrepreneurship programs, start-up competitions and second and third-generation entrepreneurs staying put and starting companies.
