Founded in 1997 as the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers with the mission of serving as the "premier leadership organization addressing the emerging topics of importance to the nation's university-based centers for entrepreneurship," the now-expanded Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) today includes a global membership of around 250 centers, representing both well-established and new centers. The consortium is administered by staff at the Jones School of Business at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
