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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