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A McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship Colloquium in Knowledge Transfer
Institutionalizing Entrepreneurship Education by Linking it to University Technology/Knowledge Transfer
The McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship is pleased to partner with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to host a stimulating and timely colloquium and conference volume designed to advance both entrepreneurship education and technology transfer from universities by linking them more directly. The colloquium, hosted January 21-23 at Tucson, Arizona’s White Stallion Ranch, brought together those who are involved with university entrepreneurship education and technology transfer as well as with researchers who have studied both processes to explore how entrepreneurship education might be more effectively institutionalized by involving it integrally in technology transfer. Ten background papers were commissioned for the colloquium, and the outcomes of the exchange will be published early fall in the Elsevier Press Series: Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth, edited by Dr. Gary Libecap at the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship.
Research universities across the country are under great pressure to promote technology/knowledge transfer to society. Through such transfers there can be greater social return to the investments made in university research by the state and federal governments, private institutions, and other organizations. There are many models and approaches to technology/knowledge transfer, but little assessment as to what practices are most effective. Similarly, entrepreneurship education has grown dramatically in the past ten years as evidenced by the expanded number of programs at colleges and universities and the corresponding proliferation of business plans competitions. This growth has fundamentally changed education, making it more practical and applied for students particularly in business schools, but also increasingly in colleges of outside of business. The challenge, however, is to institutionalize entrepreneurship education so that it remains an integral part of university curriculums for the long run. Because technology/knowledge transfer generally involves new business launches or identification of new business opportunities within existing organizations, there is an obvious potential link to entrepreneurship education where students develop operational business plans. Some entrepreneurship programs already have explored more systematic ties to technology/knowledge transfer; others have drawn upon it more randomly; but perhaps few have used this opportunity to integrate and institutionalize entrepreneurship education more broadly across campus. This colloquium and conference volume were designed to explore how this critical latter step might be advanced.
Sponsorship of the colloquium was provided by the Kansas City based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
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