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STEM Students and Faculty Can Gain Entrepreneurial Thinking and Skills

The University of Minnesota MIN-Corps is one of about 100 sites of the National Science Foundation National Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, which began with great fanfare in 2011 (1) . The Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Carla Pavone

Innovation Challenge Engages Students at a Commuter School

To learn more about eFest 2020, EIX's competition for undergraduate business ideas, click here. Entrepreneurship and innovation contribute to regional and national economic growth, and preparing Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Jing Betty Feng

Design Thinking Makes Great Ideas Viable

Entrepreneurs often start their business with a "good" idea they have that has not been properly vetted by potential customers. As a result, entrepreneurs often invest a great deal of time, effort, Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Brian Janz

Team-Pitch-Quiz Learning Engages Students and Builds Understanding

Many of us remember that one infamous professor back in college whose boring lectures -- even on subjects that should have been interesting -- put everyone to sleep. The traditional old-fashioned Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Lars Oddsson

'Becoming da Vinci' Exercise Ignites the Inventor Spirit

Students often have a hard time understanding the difference between an invention and an innovation and, likewise, the difference between incremental and disruptive innovation. I developed this Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Kathleen Allen

Classroom Exercise: Creating a Venture in 10 Days

The Innovation Project exercise enables students (within 10 days) to experience every step of the venture creation process (searching, screening, planning, financing, setup, startup, ongoing Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ron Mitchell

Schools must focus on empowerment and transformation

As more students seek to become entrepreneurs, the schools that teach them must be entrepreneurial themselves.  This means taking a fresh look at what they teach and the skills and mindsets that Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Michael Morris

Five Very Fast Ways to Better Understand a New Product or Market

Many entrepreneurship classes focus on student business ideas. The goal of this exercise is to expose students to a variety of tests to validate a business idea quickly: setting up the tests in one Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ethan Mollick

EIX: A Resource for Entrepreneurship Educators and Their Students

Are you looking for high-quality new material to enrich your entrepreneurship courses and freshen up the syllabus? Are you tired of making students pay for subscription resources? Do your students Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

Entrepreneurs Don't Get Tenure: Should Their Professors?

Successful entrepreneurs must be constantly open to new ideas, adapt to changing marketplaces, reinvent their businesses and occasionally bet the house. At times, they must take their businesses to Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: James C Wetherbe