Complete Listing of all Friday Sessions!

Teaming Track:

Interdisciplinary Teams: Development of commercially viable financial software products

product development and marketing track

Papers:

• Applying the Fuzzy Front End Model to Social Entrepreneurship: Selecting projects in one of the hemisphere’s poorest economies
• Innovation Timing and Product Renewal
• Converting Coconuts into Value-Added Products to Provide Economic Development in Third World Countries
• Visionary Engineering Innovation for Entrepreneurs

Workshops:

• From Lab to License: Turning university intellectual property into commercial products
• Markets Mean Money: An instructional approach
• Student and Educator Perspectives on Multidisciplinary Education

strengthening student outcomes track

Papers:

• Effective Recruitment and Retention of African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans as Entrepreneurial Engineering Innovators
• Project-Based Learning and New Venture Creation
• Merging Entrepreneurship into Mechanical Engineering
• Using Rich Media to Engage Students

Workshop:

• Creative Thinking: Teaching our students to take risks, seize opportunities, and value failure
• Learning from the Most Common Mistakes in New Venture Creation

Panel:

• Tapping into NCIIA Resources to Strengthen Student, Faculty, and Institutional Outcomes

curricular leadership track

Papers:

• Do Differing Motivations Lead to Variation in the Innovation Process Between Academic and Industry Innovators?
• Entrepreneurship Integration in the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum
• Taking Engineering Entrepreneurship to the Next Level with Systems Engineering Entrepreneurship
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• Motivating Engineering Educators to Engage in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy

Workshops:

• Teaching a Brand of Ethics Specific to Entrepreneurship

Panels:

• Where are they now? E-Team success stories
• Building High Performance Communities through Technology Entrepreneurship

the power of networks track

Papers:

• Making Invention and Innovation Work for the Poor: Financing and delivery models
• Understanding How the Environment and Tools Affect Effective Collaboration in Higher Education
• Effective models in building industry-university networks for technology transfer
• Creating Commercialization Partnerships and New Venture Opportunities at the University of Central Florida

Panels:

• Invention to Venture 2006: What’s happening now and what the future holds

teaming track

Papers:

• Interdisciplinary Teams: Development of commercially viable financial software products
• Active Induction of First-Year Students at the University of Chile
• Understanding How the Environment and Tools Affect Collaboration in Higher Education
• The Future Classroom: A case study in designing for the emerging academic landscape

Workshops:

• Fostering Collaboration in Heterogeneous Teams
• Creativity, Teamwork and Successful Students

Panels:

• Collegiality and Collaboration in an Age of Exclusivity

undergraduate and smaller institutions track

Papers:

• Urban Studies, Entrepreneurship, and Technology
• Where to Begin and What to Do Next? Stages and gates for an interdisciplinary student population
• Innovative Student Recruiting Approaches for Smaller and Liberal Arts Institutions
• Invention and Innovation in Non-Research 1 Schools

Panels:

• Institutionalizing Entrepreneurship at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions

Other Sessions

• Luncheon plenary with Gil Friend, Natural Logic