Entrepreneurial ingenuity and risk taking may seem like traits that can't be taught, but colleges are increasingly attempting to do just that--and they are doing so in nontraditional contexts. Long a staple of business and M.B.A. programs, and of some engineering programs, courses in kick-starting new companies are now taking hold in research universities, at liberal-arts colleges, and in specialized fine-arts institutions. Entrepreneurship is one of the fastest growing subjects in undergraduate curricula, according to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, in Kansas City, Missouri, which is largely responsible for the discipline's growth. The Kauffman foundation has provided grants to more than 200 colleges and universities to promote entrepreneurship on their campuses, and the foundation regularly sponsors research on entrepreneurship. Since 2003 it has spent $60-million for entrepreneurship classes and coordinated practica at 19 designated Kauffman campuses.