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Teaching workshop on entrepreneurship and innovation at INFORMS

  • 1.  Teaching workshop on entrepreneurship and innovation at INFORMS

    Posted 10-21-2007 08:57
    If you are attending this year's INFORMS annual meeting and are interested in learning more about teaching entrepreneurship and innovation, please consider attending the teaching workshop organized by the College of Organization Science described below.
     
    Teaching Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Workshop
     
    Saturday, November 3
     
    Sheraton Hotel - Issaquah Room 9:00am-12:00pm
     
    Session Organizer: Tim Pollock (Penn State University)
     
    Panelists:          Nile Hatch (BYU) - Working with university tech transfer offices
                            Angus Kingon     (NC State University) - turning new technologies into products and businesses
                            Robert Macy (Penn State University) - asynchronous learning
                            Wes Sine (Cornell University) - Teaching mixed student bodies
                           
     
    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



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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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