Teaching Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle WA
Sponsored by the College of Organization Science
Saturday, November 3, 2007 9am-12pm
The College of Organization Science is sponsoring a pre-conference workshop on teaching entrepreneurship and innovation. Through a combination of presentations by noted entrepreneurship educators and round table discussions, participants will have the opportunity to share teaching techniques and discuss the challenges of teaching entrepreneurship and technology innovation classes to undergraduate and MBA students. The topics to be addressed during this workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Teaching mixed student bodies of business and non-business (e.g., engineering or physical sciences) students
- Stimulating idea generation for new businesses
- Working with university technology transfer offices
- Engaging in economic development and new business creation with little support from the local community
- Facilitating the transition from "student" to "entrepreneur"
- Techniques and methods for asynchronous learning - teaching the text messaging generation
- Raising and using venture funds as part of the entrepreneurship program
No pre-registration is required. If you have any questions, please contact the session organizer, Tim Pollock of Penn State University at
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Tim Pollock
Associate Professor of Management
Smeal College of Business
The Pennsylvania State University
417 Business Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-0740
Fax: 814-863-7261
E-Mail: tpollock@psu.edu
http://www.personal.psu.edu/txp14
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