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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
January 12-16, 2003 - Monterey, Ca, USA
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Eleanor Baum, Cooper Union, USA
Carl McHargue, University of Tennessee, USA |
The articles for these proceedings are not peer-reviewed.
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PhD Research in an Entrepreneurial Environment: The Innovation Realization Lab
Warren H. Stevenson, Purdue University
Marie C. Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ronald J. Steuterman, Purdue University
ABSTRACT:
This paper describes a new graduate education initiative entitled the Innovation
Realization Laboratory that is funded by the National Science Foundation through
the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program. The
overall objective of the initiative is to have management students and Ph.D. students
in science and engineering team to explore issues related to the commercialization of
the Ph.D. students' research results. This provides the MBA students with a real
world opportunity to apply their business education in a high technology
entrepreneurial situation, while providing the Ph.D. students an exposure to all of
the complex issues associated with moving research findings to the marketplace. It
represents an experiment to determine whether a significant enhancement of the
educational experience can be acquired without placing an undue burden on either
member of such a student team (or on the major professors). This program has been
in operation for two years and has proven quite successful. The paper will describe
the program structure, relate some of the lessons learned, and present an assessment
of the program based on faculty observations and student feedback.
Warren H. Stevenson, Marie C. Thursby, and Ronald J. Steuterman, "PhD Research in an Entrepreneurial Environment: The Innovation Realization Lab" in "Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students", Eleanor Baum and Carl McHargue
Eds, ECI
Symposium Series, Volume P2 (2003). http://services.bepress.com/eci/teaching/23
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