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How Educators Can Recognize and Support Entrepreneurial Personas

Entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes.  Acknowledging this statement is essential, as university-based entrepreneurship often focuses primarily on what I'll call "unicorn entrepreneurship" Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Chuck Sacco

A Lean Startup Approach to Engaging High School Students

EDITOR’S NOTE: Doris Korda spent more than a decade at Bell Labs and in several corporate ventures, one of which became a billion dollar software business. She made the switch to education 22 years Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Catherine Buday

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

Class Explores Legal Aspects of Business Entities

In 2011, I created a Law and the Entrepreneur course at Bradley University. It was the first course on its campus created for its new Turner School of Entrepreneurship. This course is exclusively for Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Tanya Marcum

T-Shirt Project Teaches Customer Discovery to Future Entrepreneurs

Many entrepreneurship professors want to provide students with applied learning experiences. Yet, implementing an applied project in a large, introductory entrepreneurship course can be a challenge. Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Jon Eckhardt

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

'Tommie Tank' Helps Students Learn to Finance Ventures

Two-and-a-half years ago, we set out to design our entrepreneurial finance course at the University of St. Thomas around an experiential project. Our idea was straightforward: we wanted students to Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Jay Ebben

Teaching Students to Design and Commercialize New Products: A Journey in its Third Decade

Entrepreneurship education takes a variety of forms. In recent years, many colleges and universities have shown an interest in educational experiences that are both “cross-campus” and Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Daniel Forbes

How Wash U Teaches Students to Think Like Entrepreneurs

How can schools create an environment that offers a continuum of learning and experiences in entrepreneurship, and develop students into entrepreneurs with lifelong skills that can be tapped when Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ken Harrington