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- Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5
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- 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Charles J. Robinson, Clarkson University
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staff.BackgroundAccording to the United States Census Bureau in 2010 there were ~56.7 million people withsome form of disability, or ~19% of the American population.1 However the term ‘disabled’ canbe difficult to understand, as the severity of the disability is not always clear. It could mean thatsomeone had a partial hearing impairment or that someone had a severe motor pathology likecerebral palsy. The 2010 report Americans With Disabilities1 gave insight into the rates ofemployment for those with disabilities and those without. From this it becomes clear how hard itis for those to with disabilities to find employment and support themselves. However supportstructures and employment opportunities do exist For example the AbilityOne program employs45,000 people
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- Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1
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- 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Andrew J. Czuchry, East Tennessee State University; Shawn A. Carson, University of Tennessee; James H. Lampley, East Tennessee State University; William H. Knight, East Tennessee State University
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to businesses located in economically disadvantaged areas. Prior to starting his academic career at the University of Tennessee, Carson spent 10 years with Technol- ogy 2020, an organization that supported entrepreneurial startups in Oak Ridge Tennessee. During that time, Carson developed accelerator programs and workshops for a number of different programs around the state of Tennessee. Notably, he created curricula and delivered programming for an agricultural ac- celerator in rural northwest Tennessee, an automotive accelerator in southern middle Tennessee and a general business accelerator program in Johnson City in northeast Tennessee. Carson also deployed a 3-year project funded by the Appalachian
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- Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6
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- 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Yanjie Xie, Zhejiang University; Wei Zhang, Zhejiang University
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entrepreneurial ecosystem (Fetters,2010; Bastian,2018). The concept of auniversity-based entrepreneurial ecosystem is developing continuously. Dunn (2005) firstproposed the concept of university-based entrepreneurship ecosystem based on MIT, andbelieved that students can utilize a wide range of entrepreneurship related resources in thisMIT ecosystem from the generation of ideas to the establishment of companies. Candida(2014) believes that the university-based entrepreneurial ecosystem is a unified wholeconstructed from stakeholders, infrastructure, resources and culture in the three fields ofentrepreneurship curriculum, entrepreneurship activities and entrepreneurship research. Itpromotes the development of entrepreneurship education in university by
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- Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1
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- 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Hadi Bozorgmanesh, University of Connecticut; Manisha Srivastava, SurePath Evaluations LLC; Randi Mendes, University of Connecticut
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, British Columbia, Canada.[5] N. Dabbagh and D.A. Menascé, “Student Perceptions of Engineering Entrepreneurship: AnExploratory Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 95, no 2, pp. 153-163, 2006.[6] L. Pittaway and J. Cope, “Entrepreneurship Education - A Systematic Review of theEvidence”, International Small Business Journal, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 479-510, Oct. 2007.[7] T. J. Kriewall and K. Mekemson, “Instilling the entrepreneurial mindset into engineeringundergraduates,” The Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship, vol. 1, no. 1, pp 5-19, 2010.[8] D. Pistrui, J. Blessing, and K. Mekemson, Building an entrepreneurial engineering ecosystemfor future generations: The Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network, AC 2008-771,Proceedings of