Conference Session

Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Programs and Program Assessment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Green, University of Maryland; Georgina Johnston, University of Maryland

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurshipin adults, our first psychosocial factor-based hypothesis is to examine the relative influence ofthis factor to the other five factors examined. Hypothesis 1: Late adolescent undergraduates who exhibit high self-efficacy will engage in more new- venturing activities than undergraduates who exhibit low self-efficacy.Need for AchievementThe need for achievement is the need to advance for measurable personal accomplishment.35Entrepreneurship researchers have examined the influence of need for achievement, also calledachievement orientation, on entrepreneurial success since the earliest entrepreneurship researchstudies.35 Schumpeter incorporated concepts of need for achievement into his early theories ofentrepreneurship and

Conference Session

Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Blessing, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Kristen Mekemson, Kern Family Foundation; David Pistrui, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

business.• Integrated and utilized outside expertise including professional service providers, universities and suppliers.• Evaluated and measured vendor/supplier performance and made appropriate changes.• Encouraged a problem solving mindset based on strong customer focus and spending time in the marketplace. Source: KEEN Industrial Lecture Series, IIT, Fall 2006-07 http://www.iit.edu/~entrepreneur/#keen This example illustrates how a manufacturing firm uses its ecosystem to leverage a growth and learning orientation. This orientation helps Phoenix Closures determine where, when and how to compete. Phoenix Closures has created a type of innovation radar that interacts with different parts of the internal and external