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Most senior project based design courses focus on demonstrating that students have shown an ability to design a system, component, or process that meets desired needs within realistic constraints as described in ABET Criterion 3(c). This paper describes an approach that has been used for the past four years in a senior project based design course which embeds these criteria within an entrepreneurial...
The dominant mode for teaching engineers about design thinking is project-based learning. We give students things to design — individually or in teams, and then evaluate the products they produce. But another way to learn about engineering design is to study real-world examples. Case studies provide one way to do so. Cases have been used in schools of business for many years; the case study method...
In this paper, we describe a new teaching approach whose objective is to implement entrepreneurship-based learning. The proposed teaching approach is essentially a project-based approach, but, with two novel key components that give it the entrepreneurship emphasis. First, the main idea is to divide students into groups of four or five members and have each team go through the process of starting-up...
The success of breakthrough projects and programs depends on two groups of factors: (i) the competence of organisations in managing of this projects and programs; (ii) "Entrepreneurial spirit (energy)" that is formed by the leadership of the organisation successful completion of the breakthrough projects. The success of the breakthrough project, as a management category, has contradictions...
Entrepreneurship has been linked with improved economic stability and the economic turnaround of countries. Creating and enabling environments that spur, cultivate and sustain entrepreneurs is of paramount importance. The purpose of this paper is to relate how entrepreneurial firms utilise external actors to create value in their companies in an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Of particular importance...
Although university startup companies are expected to be a source of innovation around the world, economic effects of university startups have not been investigated thoroughly, especially outside of the United States. As described in this paper, we analyzed the characteristics and economic effects of companies started at The University of Tokyo, a world-recognized research university. Results show...
This article presents an innovative experience in which a research group on Industrial Electronics of the Technical University of Cartagena promotes the creation of a startup accelerator (Cloud Incubator HUB) in topics related to the Internet of Things. During the first period (2012–2015), its scope was limited to the Region of Murcia, in the southeast of Spain. From the results obtained in this first...
Innovation in Ecuador allows the change from an extractivist economy to a knowledge economy, the "Secretaría Nacional de Educación Superior Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación" (Senescyt). It is responsible for evaluating the progress and process of innovation in the country. Annually, it carries out an evaluation of the incubators or centers of entrepreneurship promoted by the universities...
A value proposition common among startup incubators and clusters is they provide firms with an environment that is more supportive than the open market, for example a high concentration of startups can be conducive to the building of social capital and tacit knowledge by tenants who, upon graduation from such sites, impact the regional economy. The positive impact of social capital on startup survival...
Start-Up formation and execution can be a daunting proposition for a technologist. The uncertainty and number of unknowns translate into substantial risk, which can discourage an engineer from even starting a company. One approach to address that risk is through instruction; by understanding the path through the start-up process, the variability is decreased and confidence can be cultivated. Although...
The intention of this paper is to explore the types of groups that academics involve in and their impact towards the entrepreneurialism of individual faculty members in Sri Lanka. Plenty of prior researches were conducted to analyze the academic entrepreneurship phenomenon based on developed countries, but not many studies were in developing countries like Sri Lanka. Primary data were collected through...
This Research expands on the key links between Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), jobs and SME access to investment/ finance these days. SMEs accounts for more than half of all jobs worldwide that is very important to alleviate poverty in least developing countries. We aim to examine the source of finance to women owned SMEs because women face unreasonably higher barriers to their male counterparts...
Improving of the quality of professional training at universities through active collaboration between academic and business components of triple helix model. In Russia “future employers — university” connection is still not developed well. Universities have to change their internal environment in order to engage students and faculty in enterpreneurial activities. This change will result not only...
This qualitative multiple case study aims to explore the key knowledge that is transferred by predecessors (parents) to successors (children) in a family company. This knowledge becomes a resource to create the family company's competitive advantage. The research sample was composed of 23 participants from 13 family companies. The data were obtained through in-depth, semistructured interviews. The...
This paper discuss on developing a system called Entreportfolio as an effort to help entrepreneurs create industry networks quickly and easily via online system. The target users are mainly entrepreneurs including startup, SME, agencies and researcher. By collecting entrepreneurs profile in a system and connects entrepreneurial agencies, SMEs and researcher under one stop center, this system is linked...
In fall 2015, a senior capstone course (CIS 457 Senior Design Lab 1) of multidisciplinary groups from the majors of computer science, information systems, and software engineering aligned with a senior-level entrepreneurship class (ENTR 410 New Venture Creation) consisting of entrepreneurship majors and minors within the school of business to successfully form teams collaborating towards a common...
This paper examines the case of a Danish Entrepreneurial organization as it moved from Ärhus StartUp weekend in 2012 to Singularity University in 2015. The focus is on the communication activities as they moved from local to regional to international levels in terms of first, second and third order activity systems. Findings offer a macro-perspective on entrepreneurship communication in global contexts.
This paper describes our experience using entrepreneurial clients to teach a Project Management course. Although the majority of students are currently Marketing & Management Communication Students, Engineering and Computer Science Design students also participate, and learn from the multidisciplinary teams formed for the coursework. The course focus is first and foremost on project management...
Nowadays, due to the high capacity of data and contents produced by a variety of organizations, individuals, and equipment, we are faced with “Big Data” phenomenon, the management, control, and process of which is above the capability of software tools during an endurable and predictable time. Cloud computing provides giant computing resources based on the demand which gains importance through Big...
Previous research recognized the value of entrepreneurial work of university lecturers. Identifying the motives for engagement in entrepreneurial endeavors is required to strengthen the nation's quadruple helix consisting of university, industry government and citizens for socio-economic development. This paper explores the key motives of university lecturers to act entrepreneurial. Through semi-structured...
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