Firms, universities, and governments across the world have launched thousands of startup accelerators in the twenty-first century. Early private-sector examples like Y-Combinator and TechStars were designed as sites of venture growth - and therefore job and wealth creation. The universities and...

One of the perplexing challenges facing Entrepreneurship educators is balancing theory and practice in and out of the classroom for students. Creating a clear pathway for students pursing various interests in Entrepreneurship gives educators pause on how to best use classroom time, integrate...

We introduce a choice-oriented approach to entrepreneurship that provides novel and direct insights into the central strategic dilemmas facing entrepreneurs. Specifically, as entrepreneurs explore an idea, they face many alternatives that cannot be pursued at once, and so must adopt (implicitly...

Derived from the words 'hack' and 'marathon', a hackathon is a time-bound, collaborative event which leverages design methodologies to enhance the innovative output of participating teams. Initially used in the computing and engineering communities to find rapid and sometimes initially inelegant...

The learning activity regarding medical apparel development encourages entrepreneurship students: (1) to exploit market opportunities, which is the crux of entrepreneur's societal value and beyond, (2) to investigate real world relevant problem solution, which is in-demand medical apparel in...

This article outlines some of the common pitfalls of how student startup teams split equity between cofounders. Conventional wisdom can be misleading and put students on a path towards equity disputes that can derail an otherwise promising startup. However, getting a fair equity split for all...

This learning innovation exercise utilizes the cognitive apprenticeship framework to help students develop their opportunity awareness and noticing abilities through purposeful practice. Cognitive task analysis with expert entrepreneurs was used to generate the modeling of alertness and the...

Minimal attention is paid to the impact of academic entrepreneurship teaching approaches on the actual development of entrepreneurs. Identifying the dissonance of current process-based and hypothetical teaching approaches in academia to create entrepreneurs, we argue teaching approaches must...

With nearly two-thirds of the global population on social media, creating a strategic approach for online content is key for a business to connect with customers. In this chapter, we'll discuss practical learnings in social media for students interested in launching their own companies or...

This chapter describes a semester long module using a blended learning approach for a flipped classroom. This flipped classroom course includes one e-learning session covering theoretical concepts prior to a face-to-face workshop with the entrepreneur the week after. Entrepreneurs are brought in...