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New Methods and Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Melissa Grunow, Lawrence Technological University; Katie Hayes, Lawrence Technological University

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validation, a test-retest to ensuretemporal stability and internal consistency, and pilot testing in the second year componentLeadership Models and Practices course. The instrument was administered at the beginning andend of the semester to determine the shift in perception of their leadership/entrepreneurial skills.1. IntroductionEntrepreneurshipLawrence Technological University (LTU) has offered engineering students entrepreneurialeducation programs for many years. Recognizing that graduates entering industry will requirebusiness and entrepreneurial skills, the College of Engineering developed an entrepreneurialcertificate program and founded the Lear Entrepreneurial Center. The entrepreneurial certificateprogram develops student skills in

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Entrepreneurship and Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Tom Merrill, Rowan University; Leigh Weiss, Rowan University

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meeting the main pedagogical objectives of thecourse: teaching technical communication and engineering design. It will also givean assessment of whether the new assignments have been effective in causing morestudents to pursue entrepreneurship in the Junior/Senior Engineering Clinic.I. Background and IntroductionProject-based learning has been gaining popularity in engineering curricula to address theprofessional skills component (or A-K criteria) introduced by ABET in the 2000 criteria. [1] TheCollege of Engineering at Rowan University has adopted a sequence of courses, known asEngineering Clinics, throughout the engineering curriculum. In this sequence, engineeringstudents progress from limited scope projects freshman year, to ill-posed and

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Duncan Moore, University of Rochester

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” threelanguages- 1) that of their undergraduate engineering, science or mathematics degree, 2) that oftheir graduate cluster which we advise to be different from their undergraduate major and 3) thatof business. TEAM graduates are equipped with detailed technical knowledge in their field aswell as business-savvy. They have the tools to innovate, lead, and strategically manage in anindustry that increasingly rewards interdisciplinary expertise.Entrepreneurial BackgroundThis degree program is a result of the University of Rochester’s successful Kauffman Foundationgrant received in 2004, which awarded the University $3.6 million over five years, and the USDepartment of Labor Finger Lakes WIRED grant, which awarded the Rochester community $15million over 4

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Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Borchers, Kettering University; Sung Hee Park, Kettering University; Michael Harris, Kettering University; William Riffe, Kettering University; Massoud Tavakoli, Kettering University

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recently for mid-western engineering schools, theKern Foundation, have funded entrepreneurial programs. Finally, society in general isincreasingly looking for small and medium sized firms for economic and employment growth.The days of large employers absorbing large number of graduates are largely over. Because ofthese factors, engineering school interest in entrepreneurship is evident in a growing numbers ofconferences, journals and funded projects. Against this backdrop, Kettering University began working to include entrepreneurship inits academic programs in 2006. Funded with a generous donation by the Kern foundation, webegan following a “magnet” approach 1 wherein the Department of Business offered academiccourses to students from all

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Entrepreneurship and Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wells, North Dakota State University

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instruction since 2004.[1] These effortshave been primarily focused in extra-curricular teams that bring together students at every level Page 15.54.3for participation in a topic related to a professor’s research. While these ‘scholar teams’ were(and are) extra-curricular, it was hoped that they would spawn capstone projects that wouldextend the work into design of commercially-useful products. The motivation included theobservation that a certain fraction of capstone projects normally will evolve designs ofsignificant commercial potential. It was further observed that our college houses about onehundred team-based capstone projects each year, and it

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Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Barbe, University of Maryland; James Green, University of Maryland; Dean Chang, University of Maryland

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programs in entrepreneurship education, venture creation andindustry partnerships, three of which are national models. These programs form an innovationecosystem, a continuum that provides a full range of supportive activities for entrepreneurialendeavors. This continuum can be thought of as a system whose inputs are ideas, concepts andintellectual property (IP), and whose outputs are seasoned entrepreneurs and sustainablecompanies. Over 600 students enroll in Mtech’s entrepreneurship courses annually. Each year,the most promising research results are selected for company formation and enter into theVenture Accelerator Program for 1-2 years of intense mentoring. Mtech’s technology transferprogram enables Maryland companies to access UM faculty and

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Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Santarelli, Cal State Fresno

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investigate industry and community needs for engineering educationin the high desert in order to inform the university’s planning and decision making.Research Questions Tyler’s9 seminal work in curriculum development provided the basis for developing theresearch questions for this exploratory study. The issues surrounding affiliation and the ability toset goals and accomplish informed decision making can best be accomplished within theframework of Tyler’s 4 questions and Dewey’s description of the fundamental sources ofeducational objectives as related by Tanner and Tanner10. The research questions for this studywere6: 1. What is the demographic information provided by regional organizations that would support an engineering program at a

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Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Cardella, Purdue University; Robert Davis, Purdue University; Shripad Revankar, Purdue University; Loring Nies, Purdue University; Carolyn Percifield, Purdue University; Leah Jamieson, Purdue University

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AC 2010-1455: A MULTI-FACETED STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS FORINNOVATIONMonica Cardella, Purdue UniversityRobert Davis, Purdue UniversityShripad Revankar, Purdue UniversityLoring Nies, Purdue UniversityCarolyn Percifield, Purdue UniversityLeah Jamieson, Purdue University Page 15.58.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Multi-Faceted Strategic Planning Process for InnovationStrategic planning has become an important component of how academic programs set goals andpriorities.We present an approach to strategic planning that is characterized by inclusion ofinternal and external stakeholders and is unique in the combination of process tools utilized.1

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Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Ferguson, Ohio Northern University; Michele Govekar, Ohio Northern University; Amanda Stype, Ohio Northern University

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point scale, thereare two commonly used ways to measure interrater agreement.The first of these is the rWG index developed by James, Demaree and Wolf (1984). Although this method is themore common, it has several drawbacks including scale dependency, the assumption that a uniform distributionmodels perfect disagreement, the need for a distribution to model disagreement, and dependence on the numberof judges (Kozlowski and Hattrup 1992, Brown and Hauenstein 2005). The aWG index developed by Brown andHauenstein corrects for these problems and measures consensus among judges. It calibrates itself according tothe scale and the number of judges. The equation for aWG is: aWG = 1 - 2*Sx2/{[(H+L)*X-X2-(H*L)]*[K/(K-1

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Ernest, Western Kentucky University; Jana Fattic, Western Kentucky University; Ni-Bin Chang, University of Central Florida; Shalini Chitrapu, Western Kentucky University; Paige Davenport, Western Kentucky University

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AC 2010-1879: WRMT CASE STUDY: GIS WITH RULE-BASED EXPERT SYSTEMAndrew Ernest, Western Kentucky UniversityJana Fattic, Western Kentucky UniversityNi-Bin Chang, University of Central FloridaShalini Chitrapu, Western Kentucky UniversityPaige Davenport, Western Kentucky University Page 15.1386.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 WRMT Case Study: GIS with Rule-based Expert System for Optimal Planning of Sensor Network in Drinking Water SystemsAbstractThis paper provides a case study in the application of the concepts of the WaterResource Management Technologies technology transfer concept presented at the2009 conference.The Technology Transfer Model[1

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Teaching Entrepreneurship

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phil Schlosser, Ohio State University; John Merrill, The Ohio State University

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business students are both attracted to and motivated byentrepreneurial learning opportunities very early in their college careers.IntroductionThere is ongoing discussion among engineering educators regarding whether or not engineeringstudents should be exposed to business subjects in order to better prepare them for engineeringcareers.1 And, if so, what would be the best way to integrate such material into the traditionalengineering curriculum? The issue of teaching entrepreneurship (how to start a company) toengineering students is even more complex, since few engineering faculty have had actualstartup experiences and only a small percentage of engineering graduates will go on to start theirown company sometime during their career.And yet

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Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Keynton, University of Louisville; James Fiet, University of Louisville; Pankaj Patel, Ball State University

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AC 2010-2012: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY TRAINING OF RESEARCHERS INENTREPRENEURIAL DISCOVERYRobert Keynton, University of LouisvilleJames Fiet, University of LouisvillePankaj Patel, Ball State University Page 15.336.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Cross-Disciplinary Training of Researchers in Entrepreneurial DiscoveryIntroductionThe work presented in this paper are the outcomes from an NSF-sponsored Partnership forInnovations program which involved the development of a new training paradigm in an attemptto:(1) stimulate the transformation of knowledge created by the nationally-renowned researchand education enterprise at the University into innovations to

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Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Gregory Leman, Baylor University; William Jordan, Baylor University; Brian Garner, Baylor University; Brian Thomas, Baylor University

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, andhelped coordinate the selection and continuation of the 2010 Innovators.This paper will present the background of the program, the assessment of the first year of theprogram and its impact on student learning, and future expansion of the program. We will alsodiscuss lessons learned and best practices, including the necessity of working across disciplinaryboundaries and the importance of administrative support.IntroductionBilly Vaughn Koen in his book, “Discussion of the Method,” describes the process ofengineering as finding the best change within limited resources in an environment of uncertainty.1 He provides two examples. Both the statements 1. “The chess master engineered the perfect countermove”, and 2. “The clergy in Iran engineered

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New Methods and Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Reimer, Lawrence Technological University; Margaret Pierce, Lawrence Tech University

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of thisexperience by stating that “Students who use their learning to solve real-world problems findthey not only gain a stronger understanding of material they have studied, they are betterprepared to absorb new information when they return to classes [1]. Work integrated learningexperiences allow students to better understand how skills and knowledge will be mostmarketable in assisting them to transition into their professional fields. In addition, students withprofessional experience gained through these types of experiences have a competitive edge overtheir counterparts in the job market. This is particularly important in today’s tight job marketwhere competition for opportunities can be intense and students find themselves

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Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance; Phil Weilerstein, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Katharine Golding, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

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Page 15.1198.2entrepreneurial mindset. The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance(NCIIA), an educational not for profit created in 1995 with support from The LemelsonFoundation, has been contributing to this growth by providing grants and developmentopportunities to faculty who seek to develop new courses, programs, and extracurricularactivities that encourage and support technology-focused entrepreneurship amongstudents[1]. To that end, NCIIA has awarded over 300 grants totaling over $6 million toroughly 200 universities and colleges, leading to the creation of hundreds of new and/ormodified entrepreneurship-related courses, programs, and other educational activities.Given the substantial number of programs established, there

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Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten Hochstedt, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

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interview protocol includedquestions relating to faculty beliefs of entrepreneurship education focusing on the following: 1. How do faculty members define the entrepreneurial mindset, or the characteristics necessary to be entrepreneurs? 2. Do faculty members believe that the entrepreneurial mindset is something that can be developed? Or do they feel that certain characteristics necessary to be an entrepreneur are innate to the person? 3. How do faculty members teach entrepreneurship? Is there a relationship between the faculty beliefs and the way that they teach entrepreneurship?We hypothesize that faculty members’ beliefs will vary and that these beliefs are directly tied tohow courses are taught, influencing both course

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Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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McRae Banks, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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worked well, what did not work well and should be changed, what was omitted and shouldhave been included, and what was included and should be eliminated.We made the decision not to promote the course actively in the first offering, thinking that asmall enrollment while we tested the structure and content would be most appropriate. Webelieved that the course would populate, probably in the range of 8-10 students, in both theengineering and science disciplines. In fact, only five engineering students enrolled in the course(1 MS Chemical Engineering, 3 MS Civil Engineering, 1 PhD Manufacturing Engineering), andone of them, the doctoral student, dropped out after the first week. Additionally, only one of theremaining students had any professional

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Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; David Barbe, University of Maryland

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toVenture” (I2V), and more recently the “Advanced Invention to Venture” (AI2V). The proposedworkshop is based on a need for an additional type of workshop modeled in part after the I2Vand AI2V: an innovation-focused workshop. The new workshop can be offered independently,or as an add-on to (or part of) I2V or AI2V workshops. The program consists of two parts: 1. Traits of Innovative Individuals Participants will learn about: (a) Traits of innovative individuals, and (b) enhancing individuals’ innovative skills. Innovators share some common traits, many of which can be learned and enhanced. Inparticular, this part of the workshop will present traits such as observing, thinking,experimenting, teaming, dreaming, persisting

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Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Green, University of Maryland

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innovation education offeringsis presented in table 1, along with the fit of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program (EIP).Table 1. Mtech’s entrepreneurship and innovation education offerings High School • Young Scholars Summer Program Juniors & – ENES140: Discovering New Ventures Seniors – ENES141: Tech. Marketing & Product Development • Young Scholars Spring Program – Spring course offering to students of Whitman and Walter Johnson high schools in Bethesda General Activities • Technology Freshmen • Freshmen

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Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerome Schaufeld, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; McRae Banks, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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proposition, its commercial feasibility, the various risk factors, and the resourcesrequired. The class was divided into five separate groups, but all groups worked on the sameoverall problem. Additionally, excerpts from the writings of thought leaders on innovation, suchas Carlson, Christensen, and Porter, were included. To give us more time for extendeddiscussions, the class met twice a week, for two lecture hours each time. The syllabus for the fallof 2009 is shown in figure 1.Our institution operates on a somewhat unusual academic calendar where each semester is splitinto two seven-week terms. Terms A and B are taught in the fall (September to December) andterms C and D are taught in the spring (January to April). During each academic term

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Entrepreneurship and Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Hornfeck, Lafayette College

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interest for sponsoring agencies or businesses. The currentTech Clinic involves six undergraduate students and two faculty members working as aconsulting team over a one academic year period. The team is charged with developingideas to promote economic development and jobs creation in a region seeking toreestablish a business/industrial base. Long-term outcomes are expected that lead to theestablishment of commercially successful enterprises. Bibliography[1] The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman, May, 2000, Anchor Books[2] Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America, Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Straus & Gireaux, New York, 2008[3

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Entrepreneurship and Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Cook, Lawrence Tech University; Jerry Cuper, Lawrence Tech University

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entrepreneurial mindset? There aremany definitions of the entrepreneurial mindset. The author of The Entrepreneurial Engineer,David E. Goldberg, states that “. . . today’s engineers . . . requires a more venturesome attitudeand approach. Increased competition places enormous pressure on companies to continue toimprove and innovate in creating new product lines, acquiring new customers, adopting newtechnology and implementing better business practices.” 1 The Entrepreneurial Mindset is bestdefined by Donald Kuratko in his book “Entrepreneurship: Theory, Process and Practice. Hestates the Entrepreneurial Mindset is when an individual exhibits the behavior of an entrepreneur,where this behavior consists of some of the following characteristics: opportunity