Kempf, F., & Elfiki, N., & Mouallem, A., & Chen, H. L., & Toye, G., & Lande, M., & Hysi, K., & Ge, X., & Sheppard, S. D. (2023, June), The Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A new approach to looking at the creative contributions of engineering graduates  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44474

\bibitem{asee_peer_44474}
  Kempf, F., \& Elfiki, N., \& Mouallem, A., \& Chen, H. L., \& Toye, G., \& Lande, M., \& Hysi, K., \& Ge, X., \& Sheppard, S. D. (2023, June), \emph{The Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A new approach to looking at the creative contributions of engineering graduates}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--44474

Felix Kempf, Nada Elfiki, Aya Mouallem, Helen L. Chen, George Toye, Micah Lande, Kei Hysi, Xiao Ge, and Sheri D. Sheppard.  "The Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A new approach to looking at the creative contributions of engineering graduates".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44474 Internet.  19 Feb, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_44474}
  Felix Kempf, Nada Elfiki, Aya Mouallem, Helen L. Chen, George Toye, Micah Lande, Kei Hysi, Xiao Ge, and Sheri D. Sheppard.
  "The Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A new approach to looking at the creative contributions of engineering graduates".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44474 Internet.  19 Feb, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Engineers are called upon to possess strong analytical and communication skills, exhibit practical ingenuity, and be creative thinkers, all the while upholding high ethical standards. In more recent times they are also expected to be innovative and entrepreneurial. We see this in large companies working to incentivize their engineers to contribute to product innovation through, for example, involvement in makerspaces, hackathons, and design sprints. We see it in universities in their offering stand-alone courses on product innovation and entrepreneurship for their engineering students, integrating innovative and entrepreneurial ideas into existing technical courses, and creating a variety of extra-curricular activities to put those ideas into play. At the same time, the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship are generally treated and explored as distinct areas of research; as such, distinct and separate measures of an individual’s self-efficacy and associated behaviors have been developed. 

In this work we take a different tack, wanting to identify the nexus, or common ground, of Innovative and Entrepreneurial self-efficacies, and Innovative and Entrepreneurial behaviors. Thinking about common ground is a useful lens with which to look at the intentional or focused creativity of engineers, whether they are working in new or existing enterprises. First, we show the development of this intersectional/nexus concept (which we call Embracing New Ideas, ENI) in terms of measures of self-efficacy (ENI-SE; consisting of six items, with a Cronbach’s Alpha of .85) and behavior (ENI-B; consisting of five items, with a Cronbach’s Alpha of .80). Then based on Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), we model ENI-B (our dependent variable) as a function of ENI-SE and a variety of workplace and work-assignment features, as well as demographics. Our data for developing these new Self-Efficacy and Behavior Constructs, and creating a descriptive model comes from a sample of over 700 engineering alumni working in a variety of roles and job functions. Results from linear regression models show that over 55 percent of the variability in ENI-B is explained by a combination of self-efficacy and contextual or workplace factors. These results begin to establish a solid foundation for subsequent work that explores educational experiences that contribute to engineering students developing self-efficacy in Embracing New Ideas, and workplace settings that truly enable behaviors related to Embracing New Ideas.

AU  - Felix Kempf
AU  - Nada Elfiki
AU  - Aya Mouallem
AU  - Helen L. Chen
AU  - George Toye
AU  - Micah Lande
AU  - Kei Hysi
AU  - Xiao Ge
AU  - Sheri D. Sheppard
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
DA  - 2023/06/25
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - The Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A new approach to looking at the creative contributions of engineering graduates
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/44474
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--44474
ER  -