Kazakhstani-American Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation (KACEBI)
What is KACEBI?
KACEBI stands for Kazakhstani-American Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation. The Center plans to officially open in the fall of 2006 as a part of the West-Kazakhstan Institute of Languages and Management Evrazia. Since its founding 10 years ago, Evrazia Institute has proved itself to be a prestigious institute of higher education. In 2005, the Institute ranked 7th place among 96 private and public institutions of higher education in Kazakhstan . IBC Group is an organization consisting of 3 divisions (Business Incubator, Loan Fund, and Internet Division) with the common aim of helping entrepreneurs. These two organizations recognize that KACEBI would have a positive impact on business development in the region of western Kazakhstan, and so they are teaming together with USAID Carana’s Business and Economics Education Project and international partners in order to create KACEBI!
Vision: to establish and develop a center for entrepreneurship and business innovation that encourages entrepreneurial activity and economic development in western Kazakhstan while positively impacting the business and economics education system and becoming a model center for the region.
Project Overview - for KACEBI’s first 3 years of operation
Phase I: January through July 2006 – preparation period
•Trip for Evrazia Institute and new KACEBI staff to a Center for Entrepreneurship in America.
•Visits to Uralsk, Kazakhstan by 3 American professors in spring and summer for instructors’ training and then evaluation of instructor’s knowledge.
•Course materials to be developed with partner universities abroad by mid April 2006.
Phase II: First year: pilot period – August 2006 – May 2007
•Start of program with 1 year Certificate in Entrepreneurial Management for current and aspiring entrepreneurs.
•Begin offering a variety of short-term trainings and several outreach activities to connect with entrepreneurs and companies in the region.
•Invite one full-time entrepreneurial expert from abroad to work in Uralsk for 1st year of operation in the role of Academic Director and assisting in the planning of the Bachelor’s program.
Phase III: Second year – September 2007 – May 2008
•Start addition of 4-year undergraduate degree program for a Bachelor’s of Business Administration (BBA) with concentrations available in Entrepreneurship and in Business Innovation.
•Expansion of outreach activities.
•Invite another expert in entrepreneurship from abroad to come to Uralsk and work for the 2nd half of Phase III to assist in the planning of the MBA program.
Phase IV: Third year – September 2008 – May 2009
•Begin addition of 2-year graduate degree program for a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) with concentrations available in Entrepreneurship and in Business Innovation.
•Invite an expert in entrepreneurship from abroad to come to Uralsk for a shorter-term stay.
•Two BBA or MBA students to visit an American partner university for 1 month.
Posted by youngterry
at 6:54 AM CST
Updated: Friday, 31 March 2006 2:45 AM CST
