An article authored by Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship Barth Strempek was recently published in Advances in Financial Education.
The article titled “Teaching Enterprise Network: An Alternative Structure for Entrepreneurship Programs” previously received recognition in the Best Paper Competition at the Academy of Business Education conference last September.
See the paper abstract below:
“The expansion of undergraduate entrepreneurship programs and centers has been fast and furious over the past couple of decades. A common structure has emerged that — not surprisingly — mirrors the undergraduate business curriculum in its general form. The perspective of the program frequently places heavy emphasis on the development of large scalable businesses suitable for major funding through venture or angel capital. In large universities this may be an appropriate perspective to take given that those schools often have large science, engineering, and medical programs that provide fertile ground for substantial commercializable ideas. But what about students not connected with these programs or smaller, liberal-arts-centric schools without built-in opportunity generators? Is this model appropriate for them? This paper proposes the Teaching Enterprise Network (TEN), an alternative entrepreneurship program structure that takes into account the weaknesses in entrepreneurial education today and the situation of modestly-sized teaching oriented schools.”