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Crowdfunded Ventures: Where Angels Dare to Tread

By Sandy Yu, Scott Johnson, Chiayu Lai, Antonio Cricelli and Lee Fleming As Silicon Valley, Boston and metropolitan New York show, entrepreneurship can drive the prosperity of a region -- creating Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Sandy Yu and Lee Fleming

James Wetherbe: How Consulting Connects Colleges to the Real World

James Wetherbe is the Richard Schulze Distinguished Professor at the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. Previously he served on the faculty and the University of Houston, Minnesota Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Jon Eckhardt

An Interview with David Teece, a Practicing Business Intellectual

Professor David Teece is one of the impactful business scholars of his generation. His research has been cited over 128,474 times according to Google Scholar. His work is required reading for Ph.D. Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Jon Eckhardt

Entrepreneurship Research: Which Trails to Blaze Next

The community of entrepreneurship researchers has grown rapidly over the past few decades, and the quality and variety of entrepreneurship research has increased dramatically. As a result, a wealth Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Holger Patzelt

Conflict of Interest Policies Can Stifle Students and Innovation

In the private sector, collaboration between the people who develop and commercialize new technologies is essential to a successful new venture.  But in the college setting, Conflict of Interest Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Liz Christenbury

Talk With Real Customers Before the Launch

  As online crowdsourcing has shown, people will support a proposed business or cause that moves them. For entrepreneurs, the ability to test a proposed product or service's uniqueness and Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Dan Holland

EIX: A Resource for Entrepreneurship Educators and Their Students

We offer more than 100 teaching exercises and modules -- all free -- for college and high school educators looking to enhance entrepreneurial learning. Are you looking for high-quality new material Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

Connecting Business Research to Practice

Markets are a strong mechanism that force entrepreneurs to produce outputs that are useful to customers. Ironically and sadly, schools that groom future entrepreneurs too often don’t consider Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Jon Eckhardt and James C Wetherbe

FedEx: Obtaining Corporate Sponsored Research

Corporate funding helps make business/entrepreneurial research relevance and practicality by ensuring market value of the results (Eckhardt and Wetherbe). However, many university Read More...

Category: Case Studies

Author: James C Wetherbe

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