Seminars, Workshops and Talks From Different Universities
Georgia Tech University
Impact Speaker Series
For three years the Impact Speaker Series has brought highly successful business leaders
from a variety of industries to campus to share their experiences and give advice to
students and other entrepreneurs on topics ranging from "building a venture around
intellectual capital" to "successful entrepreneurship in large organizations."
The weekly series provides Georgia Tech students, alumni, and the Atlanta community
an opportunity to network and learn from high tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and
notable business leaders.
The Impact Speaker Series is sponsored by:
DuPree College of Management
Program for Engineering Entrepreneurship
Roundtable on Engineering Entrepreneurship Research
The Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research(REER) is an annual
conference bringing together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to exchange
perspective on technology entrepreneurship. Among the issues of interest are the
commericalizaion of university technologies and company R&D, as well as the
company/university interface and other organizational forms (e.g. incubators, venture
firms, banks, associations, industry groups) that play a role in technology
entrepreneurship.
The next conference will be held in early 2003 on the Georgia Tech campus. For
information, please contact Sharon Powell.
The 2002 conference, held March 22st - 23rd focused on the role of entrepreneurial
activity as it relates to the commercialization of scientific and engineering research in
universities.
The 1st Annual Georgia Tech Management Science Conference on University
Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer was held December 7th, 8th & 9th, 2000 on
the campus of Georgia Tech.
1st Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research December 7, 8, 9, 2000
Sponsored by the Georgia Institute of Technology
DuPree College of Management and the College of Engineering
The first annual Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research with a focus on
University Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer brings together a group of leading
scholars and researchers to discuss the development of university entrepreneurial activity
and technology transfer.
The purpose of the conference is to explore the issues unique to entrepreneurship and
technology transfer in the university setting. The papers presented at the conference will
be published in a special issue of Management Science, edited by Scott Shane and David
Mowery.
Topics Covered in this conference
Lessons from the Front Line: Technology Licensing Officers' Views on Technology
Transfer and University Entrepreneurship
Links and Impacts: Survey Results on the Influence of Public Research on Industrial
R&D
A Comparison of U.S. and European University-Industry Relations in the Life Sciences
Learning to Patent: Institutional Experience, Learning, and the Characteristics of U.S.
University Patents after the Bayh-Dole Act, 1980-1994
Who is Selling the Ivory Tower? Sources of Growth in University Licensing
How do University Inventions get into Practice?
Mapping the Transfer of Knowledge from MIT: An Institution in Transition?
Selling University Technology: Patterns from MIT
Lessons from the Front Line: Investors' Views on Technology Transfer and University
Entrepreneurship
Equity and the Technology Transfer Strategies of American Research Universities
Is University Entrepreneurship Different?
Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups
University Science, Venture Capital, and the Performance of U.S. Biotechnology Firms
The 2002 Roundtable at Georgia Tech was held March 21- 23, 2002.
Issues explored included:
What explains the recent growth in technology transfer from universities via licensing
and/or startups?
How and through what mechanisms are university inventions moved to the marketplace?
What are the implications for technology transfer of different financial arrangements
(e.g., venture capital, equity, sponsored research) and licensing characteristics (e.g.,
exclusive licenses, options)?
What are the characteristics of faculty and students who become involved in technology
transfer?
What is the influence of university entrepreneurial activity on the research and teaching
foundations of universities?
How do legal and institutional factors impede/improve technology transfer from
universities to the private sector?
Why are some sectors of universities more involved in entrepreneurial activity?
What forms do university/industry collaborative efforts take and which are most valuable
to the process of technology transfer?
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Science Parks and Incubators Research Conference April 2003 and Request for
Paper Submission:
Science Parks and Incubators
Sponsors: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Journal of Business Venturing
In recent years, there has been substantial public and private investment in science parks
and business incubators, especially at universities. These property-based initiatives could
serve as an important mechanism for stimulating technology transfer, the formation and
growth of high-tech entrepreneurial start-ups, regional economic development, inner city
development, and revenue for firms and universities. While there is a burgeoning
literature on alternative technology transfer mechanisms, such as patenting, licensing,
research joint ventures, and strategic alliances, there has been little systematic analysis of
science parks and business incubators. To fill this void, we seek papers for a special issue
of the Journal of Business Venturing on the managerial and policy implications of these
institutions. Papers from a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., theory of the firm,
institutional theory, resource dependence theory, agency theory, organization learning)
and alternative levels of analysis (e.g., firm, university, region or inner city) are
welcomed.
Research Seminars
Lally Research Seminars were created with the following objectives: to enliven the
research environment at Lally, to expose Lally students and faculty to new ideas and
thinking, and to create new opportunities for research collaboration. By inviting external
faculty presenters to the seminar, the Lally School also is likely to gain visibility among
the relevant external academic community members, particularly among those working in
the core areas important to Lally, namely, innovation management and entrepreneurship.
Over the course of the Fall 2002 semester, the research seminar was conducted on most
Wednesdays in the Pittsburgh building, and was open to the entire RPI community.
Some of the topics featured in the Research Seminar include the following:
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Incumbent entry into new market niches: The role of experience and managerial
choice in the creation of dynamic capabilities.
Entrepreneurial origin and spin-off performance: A comparison between
corporate and university spin-offs.
The impact of corporate governance on innovation: Evidence from the
pharmaceutical industry.
Syracuse University
Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (WISE) symposium (conference)
WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF AN ENTREPRENEURIAL REVOLUTION in America
and throughout the world—and women are leading the charge. The number of womenowned businesses increased 78 percent in the past decade, almost twice the rate as for all
businesses. Today there are more than 8.5 million women-owned businesses in the U.S.
compared to 1 million in 1969. They constitute one-third of all businesses, a proportion
that is on the rise.
In the spirit of this revolution, the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship at Syracuse
University is proud to announce its first annual symposium on women and
entrepreneurship entitled "Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship." This one-day
program seeks to:
Celebrate the accomplishments of female entrepreneurs
Explore unique challenges and opportunities confronting women who want to pursue
entrepreneurial dreams.
Provide insights and perspectives regarding the path to entrepreneurial success
An outstanding group of successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, consultants and
educators have come together to share their insights and experiences on some of the most
important issues affecting women in entrepreneurship today. Topics will be examined
from a variety of viewpoints, with speakers representing a diverse mix of age groups,
ethnic backgrounds, education levels, and industry experiences. The common element is
a shared passion for the entrepreneurial spirit. [Conference Schedule]
WISE may be especially valuable if:
you are thinking about starting a business
you have recently started a venture
you have an interest in working in a start-up firm
you know little about entrepreneurial opportunities and want to know more.
WISE will provide an opportunity to:
learn what it takes to start a venture
hear some of the most amazing women share their entrepreneurial experiences
identify sources of new business ideas
find out how to find money, market your idea, and other hands-on aspects of
entrepreneurship
meet a network of other women currently pursuing entrepreneurial dreams.
The Syracuse Entrepreneur’s Bootcamp
The Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship and the Martin J. Whitman School of
Management are pleased to announce the first annual START-UP: The Syracuse
Entrepreneur's Bootcamp. Focused, intense and packed with useful material, this course
is tailored to aspiring entrepreneurs in the Syracuse area. This course will answer:
What is a good business concept? How can I determine if my idea is a good one?
Do I really need a business plan and, if so, how can I write a great one?
What do I need to know about my customer and market, and how can I get answers?
Where do I get financing?
How do I make sense of the numbers, and what numbers really matter?
What is a business model, and does my business model make sense?
What is guerrilla marketing? Are there ways to do more with marketing while spending
less?
What does it really take to succeed in business by myself ?
Where do I go to get the information I need to organize my new business?
A team of experienced faculty and successful entrepreneurs will work with you,
providing a fun and interactive experience. They will introduce ideas and concepts, and
show how to apply them to your current or potential business. Each participant will
receive a Syracuse University Certificate upon completion of the Bootcamp.
When: Six Saturdays-October 4, 11, 18, 25 and November 1 and 8,
8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Where: The Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Room TBA
Fees: $500
Bootcamp instructors include:
Dr. Randy Elder (Associate Professor in Accounting)
Dr. Benyamin Lichtenstein (Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Emerging
Enterprises)
Dr. Michael Morris (Witting Chair in Entrepreneurship-Director of the Department in
Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises)
Dr. Clint Tankersley (Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies-Associate Professor in
Marketing)
Mr. Bill Walsh (Assistant Professor in Accounting)
......and a number of guest entrepreneurs !
Experiential Classroom
WELCOME TO THE EXPERIENTIAL CLASSROOM ... an annual clinic designed to
demonstrate practical, simple, provocative, and innovative ways in which those who are
new to the teaching of entrepreneurship can use a variety of experiential and applicationoriented pedagogical tools. We seek to help entrepreneurship educators be great at what
they do.
These clinics are primarily intended for three key target audiences:
Entrepreneurs planning to return to the classroom to teach entrepreneurship courses.
Faculty members from literally any discipline who are re-tooling so that they can teach
entrepreneurship.
Adjunct faculty teaching entrepreneurship on a part-time basis.
Major Objectives
Help those who are new to the teaching of entrepreneurship, including both faculty and
practitioners, to learn best classroom practices;
Give delegates an opportunity to actually teach in front of live students, with helpful
critiques from entrepreneurship faculty;
Capture the experiences of those who came to the teaching of entrepreneurship from
diverse backgrounds, and share lessons learned in making the transition;
Introduce a number of highly creative and effective experiential approaches, ranging
from cases, business plans, and the use of entrepreneurs in the classroom to having
students do entrepreneurial audits, the concept of marketing inventions, and the PBJ
(peanut butter and jelly) exercise;
Apply a simple but powerful framework for organizing the content within an
entrepreneurship course;
Demonstrate effective teaching approaches by observing master teachers;
Share ideas on specialty topics in entrepreneurship education, such as how to kick a class
off, creative mentoring programs, what's new in entrepreneurship internships, and much
more;
Expose delegates to a rich resource base and help them join a network of faculty who
share ideas, insights and experiences
Enrollment is limited to 33 delegates on a first-come, first-served basis.
2003 Annual Entrepreneurship Banquet
In the spring of each year, The EEE Program, in conjunction in with the Falcone Center
for Entrepreneurship, and the Student Entrepreneurship Club, sponser the Annual
Entrepreneurship Banquet and Awards ceremony. All majors, minors, club members and
students are invited ( its's a free meal !!!)
The agenda for the 2003 Annual Entrepreneurship Banquet is below
6:00-6:05 Welcome from Dr.Deborah Freund, Provost
6:00-7:00 Reception and hors d'oeuvres(cash bar)
7:00 Seating for Dinner
7:30 Comments from Dr.Morris, EEE Program Director
7:45 " The Year behind and the Times Ahead," Kalen Pascal, President, Student
Entrepreneurship Club
8:00 Awards Presentations
Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award
Outstanding EEE Employee Award
Entrepreneurial Leadership Award
Entrepreneurship Founders Award
Outstanding Entrepreneurship Teacher
Mentoring and Support Award
Student Entrepreneur of the Year
Academic Excellence in Entrepreneurship (2)
Outstanding Entrepreneurship Student (2)
Syracuse Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year
8:25 Comments from Jud Gostin, Founder, Sensis Corporation
8:45 Wrap Up: Julie Abrams
The San Diego School presents and integrates a series of learning experiences through:
Brief, to-the-point presentations by well-known teachers and practitioners, balancing
information about the latest theoretical concepts with proven application techniques
Visits to local companies and interviews with their executives to create profiles of
successful entrepreneurs, and to develop case studies describing the most important
issues their companies faced during start-up and development, and how they dealt with
them.
Activities, readings and study groups draw upon the participants' own experiences and
make explicit the cultural differences between San Diego and other regions of the world
Luncheons with important members of the social, government and academic
communities to better understand the business environment necessary to foster innovation
and enterprise development
Coaching and assistance to encourage participants to develop a new venture business plan
of their own, including learning how to make a case for funding and helping to structure
any start-up projects the students may currently be considering.
University of California – San Diego
Topical Outline
Participants choose a one-, two-, or three-week course of study. The learning agenda
follows this outline:
Week 1: Economic Expansion through Business Innovation. This week focuses on
understanding the building blocks of innovative economic regions, as well as models for
fostering innovation and regeneration in industries and corporations.
Week 2: Commercial Wealth from Technological Opportunism. This week focuses on
commercializing new technologies, sourcing innovative technologies, attracting capital,
building a management team, assessing the marketplace, and structuring and sequencing
start-up activities.
Week 3: Independent Field Work. Participants can add a third week of individual field
study and business plan preparation. During this week, participants may receive coaching
and assistance in refining their own business plans (including help in creating business
strategies, making a case for funding, and structuring new ventures).
University of Maryland
Hinman Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunities (CEOs) Program
The CEOs Program is a joint venture of the Smith School of Business’s Entrepreneurship
Department and the Clark School of Engineering. It offers a campus residential setting
for a select campus-wide group of upper-class students who plan to start their own
businesses. Initiated with a grant from Brian Hinman, a successful entrepreneur and
graduate of the Clark School of Engineering, this program aims to provide a stimulating
environment, facilities and mentoring to foster entrepreneurship among participants. The
Program will culminate in a business plan for each student venture and assistance to
obtain financing
Want learn how to start your own company? The nation's first living-learning
entrepreneurship program can help you learn how. Tap into:
state-of-the-art technology
a vibrant living and working environment
access to resources from several nationally-ranked initiatives designed to assist emerging
companies, including the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, the Engineering
Research Center's incubator Technology Advancement Program, and the
Entrepreneurship Citation Program.
Live with like-minded students from a variety of academic disciplines and learn the skills
to help you start a company once you graduate. Use state-of-the-art technology and work
with experts while you build your idea!
The CEOs Program arose from a partnership between the Robert H. Smith School of
Business, and the A. James Clark School of Engineering. Substantial services to the
Program are provided by the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute and the
Department of Entrepreneurship, while abroad array of services are also offered by the
Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, the Office of Technology Commercialization, the
Office of Information Technology and Department of Resident Life.
The Hinman CEOs program was initiated by a gift from University of Maryland
Alumnus and serial entrepreneur Brian Hinman, who provided $2.5million to support this
program for its first ten years.
Seminars and Workshops
Students participate in weekly presentations offered by outside guest speakers from the
entrepreneurial community, including successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, legal
experts, technologists, and service providers. Speakers are also drawn from University of
Maryland educators who specialize in the areas of business plan writing and review,
financing, business law, ethics, startup company incubation and other essential subjects
for the aspiring entrepreneur. The programming of this component is facilitated by a
Program Committee that consists of constituents from inside and outside the University.
Student CEOs are expected to attend weekly seminars and workshops in three broad
categories: education, experiences and resources. Educational activities include: market
analysis workshops, team-building workshops and seminars on: intellectual property
(including patents, copyrights, trade secrets and trademarks), business plans, developing
ideas into companies, mergers, acquisitions and IPOs. Seminars in the experience
category are those given by successful entrepreneurs who discuss diverse paths to success
and barriers that were overcome along the way. Activities in the resource category
involve introducing the CEOs to well-established facilities and programs that are very
helpful in developing new businesses.
Even though students may come to the CEOs Program with well-formed ideas for a
business, most undergraduate students have had little or no training or experience
working in teams to achieve a mutual goal. A faculty group called BESTEAMS (Building
Engineering Student Team Effectiveness And Management Systems) provides the CEOs
with a set of learning modules that fall into three basic domains: personal, interpersonal
and team operation.3 Students begin by completing a Kolb learning-style inventory to
discover their own style and that of their teammates. Modules include the following
topics: Individual Time Management, Mission Adoption, Project Organization,
Entrepreneurial Approaches to Decision Management, Tools for Working in Groups and
Project Resolution - Lessons Learned. Along with these tools in team management,
students gain skills in personal and interpersonal relationships including modules in selfcritical evaluation, negotiation and conflict resolution.
University of Texas at El Paso
Secondary Education in Entrepreneurial Development (SEED)
The various centers and institutes that constitute the Centers for Entrepreneurial
Development, Advancement, Research and Support (CEDARS) a
t the University of Texas at El Paso, have been providing educational programs, research
studies and outreach services to the El Paso region. CEDARS obtained a grant from The
Coleman Foundation to initiate the SEED Program. The primary objective of Secondary
Education in Entrepreneurial Development (SEED) is to infuse entrepreneurship
education into the curriculum of secondary schools.
The SEED Workshop on September 27, 2002 will provide leadership for secondary
entrepreneurship education, viewpoints and criteria on the importance of this new area of
education. Establishing The University of Texas at El Paso's Secondary Education in
Entrepreneurial Development (SEED) requires the networking of educators from around
America, learning about successful existing programs and the need for entrepreneurship
as a basic skill in the American education system.
El Paso school district educators will discover how true entrepreneurship education
provides opportunities for youth to master competences related to core entrepreneurial
knowledge, skills and attitudes including: opportunity recognition; idea generation and
marshaling resources in the face of risk to pursue opportunities; venture creation and
operation; and creativity and critical thinking. The Workshop will provide the tools
necessary to establish a partnership with our El Paso school districts and the SEED
Program of excellence.
CEDARS services a visible and significant role as an outreach service program. The
establishment of the Small Business Executive Education Program (SBEEP), the
Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization (CEO), the Family and Closely Held Business
Forum, the Small Business Institute and The Franchise Center (TFC), with its Franchise
Management Certificate Program, the Franchise Resource/Research Library, the Business
Planning Computer Lab, and the collaboration with other United States universities,
substantiates that The University of Texas at El Paso is a premier university in
entrepreneurial business and development.
Workshop Topics
The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education
Upper Rio Grande Tech-Prep and Youth Consortium