Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hak Tam, University of California, Santa Barbara; Gary Hansen, University of California, Santa Barbara; Sally Blomstrom, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Peter Robinson, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

research question. The lack of a standard methodology makes it difficult tocompare research and findings in the same field. The EAO is a well-designed multivariateinstrument for measuring the students’ entrepreneurial attitude. We would like to update andenhance the instrument, and collect data broadly across disciplines. From which we can set up anormative score and explore if it can be used to identify students with entrepreneurial inclinationand correlate that to future success in entrepreneurship programs (e.g. the SAT is normalized to amean score of 500, with one standard deviation points at 400 and 600. SAT was validated forpredicting students’ first year success in college). That might be an additional tool for theprograms to identify and

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Crossdisciplinary Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

sasikumar naidu, University of Tennessee; Prasanna Venkateswara Rao, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Paul Frymier, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Spivey Douglas, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Gary Smith, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Masood Parang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Rapinder Sawhney, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

to the private sector, but also for enabling the near-term success of students who graduate from the program.Entrepreneurial Board The dual-degree program's start-up involved the cooperation of 20 public and privatepartners, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), large corporations, smallstart-up corporations, and state and local officials. Selected members of these partners(Table 1) were involved in the following activities: ≠ evaluating student projects and advising the student teams; ≠ offering the student teams technical and business expertise; ≠ contributing intellectual property (ORNL alone has a portfolio of over 1000 patents) and project ideas; ≠ serving as guest lecturers in graduate product