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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

The Theory of Disruptive Innovation: Science or Allegory?

“Every age has a theory about the past and the present, of what was and what is, a notion of time: a theory of history…Our era has disruption… [1] ” – Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Author: Andrew King

Will Music Schools Embrace Multimedia Software?

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it." - W.C. Fields In the fall of 2010, Dejen Tesfiagiorgis sat in his tiny incubator office on Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Alec Johnson and Jay Ebben

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

Many schools want entrepreneurship classes that are “cross-campus” and “experiential.” This class at University of Minnesota does both. Entrepreneurship education takes a variety of forms. In Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Daniel Forbes

How Strategy and Industry Should Shape Your Choice of Co-Founders

Entrepreneurs who want to turn a great idea into a thriving business inevitably need a team that can make it happen. What increases their odds of a successful venture: hiring mainly technical experts Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Charles Eesley , Edward Roberts and David Hsu

How Crisis Spurred Healthcare Innovation in Cuba

Health care is a hotly debated topic in the US -- how it's delivered, whether the government or employers pay for it, how research on promising new drugs is funded and other issues. "Innovation" is Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Author: Eapen Chacko

Why Inventors Should Embrace Unequal Partnerships

In this article Dean Kamen, one of the world's most famous inventors, explains why entrepreneurs who have an idea for a new product or have already created a product benefit from having a business Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Dean Kamen

Improved Bike Helmet Takes Top Prize at e-Fest

Teams of student entrepreneurs gathered at the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship in Minneapolis April 6-8, 2017 for e-Fest, which gave them the chance to compete for more than $250,000 in prizes for Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: James Beal

For the Best Customer Data, Look Beyond the Market

Seed stage entrepreneurs must grapple with how they will scale their businesses. While this process includes many steps, discovering the proper product/market fit for the business is critical early Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Jon Eckhardt

Innovation in K-12 Education: One District's Journey

The United States’ system of K-12 public education is an important cornerstone of American society. Public schools play a critical role in advancing our widely valued principles of community Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Eric Schneider