Resources

Browse our collection of entrepreneurship education resources to find information regarding lesson ideas, building your own entrepreneurship center, and professional networking within the entrepreneurship education community.

Lesson Planning

Textbooks
Suggested texts for teaching entrepreneurship
- Launching New Ventures: An Entrepreneurial Approach
  Allen, Kathleen R. [Code 764]
- Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures
  Barringer, Bruce R.; Ireland, R. Duane [Code 1435]
- Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise
  Byers, Thomas H.; Dorf, Richard C.; Nelson, Andrew J. [Code 803]
- Entrepreneurship
  Bygrave, William D.; Zacharakis, Andrew [Code 772]
- Entrepreneurship, 7/e
  Hisrich, Robert D.; Peters, Michael P.; Shepherd, [Code 315]
- Patterns of Entrepreneurship
  Kaplan, Jack M. [Code 787]
- Entrepreneurial Small Business
  Katz, Jerome A.; Green, Richard P. [Code 1436]
- Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship:
  Managing and Financing Ventures in the Global Economy
  Kuemmerle, Walter [Code 767]
- Entrepreneurship with Infotrac: Theory, Process, Practice
  Kuratko, Donald F.; Hodgetts, Richard M. [Code 768]
- Venture Capital and Equity: A Casebook
  Lerner, Josh; Hardymon, Felda; Leamon, Ann [Code 1437]
- The Entrepreneurial Venture
  Sahlman, William A.; Stevenson; Howard H.; Robert [Code 314]
- Entrepreneurial Finance
  Smith, Richard L.; Smith, Janet Kiholm [Code 770]
- New Venture Creation, 7/e
  Timmons, Jeffrey A.; Spinelli, Stephen [Code 316]
Tradebooks
Readings selected by the STVP Faculty
- Entrepreneur's Notebook
  Steven K. Gold [Code 1601]
- The Entrepreneurial Engineer
  David E. Goldberg [Code 1602]
- The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law
  Bagley, Constance E.; Dauchy, Craig E. [Code 822]
- The Entrepreneurial Imperative
  Schramm, Carl J. [Code 1603]
- The Orgin and Evolution of New Businesses
  Bhide, Amar [Code 821]
- Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos
  Brown, Shona L.; Eisenhardt, Kathleen M. [Code 87]
- The Innovator's Dilemma
  Christensen, Clayton M. [Code 817]
- Good to Great
  Collins, Jim [Code 819]
- Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
  Goleman, Daniel; McKee, Annie; Boyatzis, Richard E. [Code 215]
- The Money of Invention
  Gompers, Paul A.; Lerner, Josh [Code 820]
- The Entrepreneurial Mindset
  Gunter McGrath, Rita; MacMillan, Ian C. [Code 313]
- The Art of the Start
  Kawasaki, Guy [Code 824]
- The Art of Innovation
  Kelley, Tom; Littman, Jonathan [Code 818]
- The Monk and the Riddle
  Komisar, Randy [Code 244]
- The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
  Pfeffer, Jeffrey, Sutton, Robert I. [Code 243]
- Roadmap to Entrepreneurial Success
  Price, Robert W. [Code 823]
  Komisar, Randy [Code 244]
- Weird Ideas That Work
  Sutton, Robert I. [Code 242]
- Betting It All: The Entrepreneurs of Technology
  Malone, Michael S. [Code 816]
- Crossing the Chasm
  Moore, Geoffrey A. [Code 815]
- New Business Road Test:
  What Entrepreneurs and Executives Should Do Before Writing a Business Plan
  Mullins, John W. [Code 769]
- Raising Entrepreneurial Capital
  Vinturella, John; Erickson, Suzanne [Code 771]
- The No Asshole Rule:
  Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
  Sutton, Bob [Code 1779]
Course Syllabi
Models for instruction and course content
- STVP Course Offerings
- USASBE Syllabi Exchange
Entrepreneurship Education Online Media
Video and podcast offerings from various universities
- Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner
  ECorner is an extensive collection of free entrepreneurship education videos and podcasts
- Cornell's eClips
  Cornell's video clip collection on entrepreneurship, business, and leadership
- Harvard Business School Publishing
  The innovation & entrepreneurship resource center at HBS Online regularly publishes videos and podcasts.
Journals and Case Studies
Organizations that produce academic literature in the area of entrepreneurship education
Entrepreneurship Work/Study Programs
An overview of the Mayfield Fellows Program at Stanford University
- Work/Study Programs (PDF, 340 KB)
  Powerpoint describing Stanford Technology Venture Program's Mayfield Fellows Program.
- Changes in Attitudes (PDF, 24 KB)
  Student reflections on entrepreneurship, starting a company, personal/career issues, and the value of participating in an entrepreneurship program.

Building a Center

Accel REE Conference Archives
A listing of past international Roundtables on Entrepreneurship Education (REE). Archives contain presentations, notes, pictures, and other relevant material from the conferences.
How to Build an Entrepreneurship Center (PDF, 812 KB)
Advice from Stanford faculty on how to create your own entrepreneurship center.
Goals and Challenges of Successful Centers
19 presentations highlighting goals and challenges facing entrepreneurship centers from Accel REE USA 2004.
Slides of Successful Centers
24 short slide presentations focusing on entrepreneurship centers from Accel REE USA 2003.
Risks and Rewards of Running a Center (PDF, 76 KB)
Quotes from Stanford faculty about the benefits of entrepreneurship education.
Comparing and Contrasting Entrepreneurship Programs
Interviews with Center Directors
- The following interviews were conducted during STVP's annual Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers, hosted at Stanford in October 2001.
  
  We invited 5 entrepreneurship center directors from leading entrepreneurship programs to share their visions, successes and challenges. We hope that their stories will provide a collection of models for other colleges and universities who are planning to establish an entrepreneurship center.
  
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Grant-making Organizations
Institutions that generously support entrepreneurship education
- Coleman Foundation
  Description: The Coleman Foundation is committed to the principles of self-determination, self-reliance, self-respect, and individual initiative. The Foundation believes these characteristics are essential to the development of entrepreneurs and their pursuit of self-employment.
- William and Flora Hewlett
  Description: The Foundation has a strong commitment to the voluntary, nonprofit sector. Proposals that show promise of stimulating private philanthropy are particularly welcome. Grants in the Education Program should promote long-term institutional or field development, reform, or knowledge development in program components. The Education Program will fund research, development, demonstrations, evaluations, dissemination, and public engagement to accomplish its objectives.
- Kauffman Foundation
  Description: The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation works with partners to encourage entrepreneurship across America and to improve the education of children and youth. The Foundation focuses its operations and grantmaking on two areas: entrepreneurship and education.
- National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance: NCIIA
  Description: In the next few years, the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) will award over $2 million in grants to colleges and universities support programs and projects in invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship education.
- Sloan Foundation
  Description: Support of science and technology is a major component of the Foundation's program. Fellowships, direct support of research in selected fields, and work in the history of science and technology are basic parts of this program. In addition to grants made by the Trustees, officer grants are made at any time by the Foundation.
- Price Institute
  Description: The Price Institute is a separate, private, operating foundation that was established by Mr. Harold Price in 1979. The Institute is funded through grants from the Louis and Harold Price Foundation. The mission of the Institute is twofold:
  1. To further the understanding of the entrepreneurial process.
  2. To stimulate MBA Programs and curricula development to encourage and support students with entrepreneurial aspirations.

Networking

Teaching Workshops
Entrepreneurship education conferences and workshops
- Accel Roundtables on Entrepreneurship Education (REE)
  Description: Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) hosts four annual conferences for entrepreneurship educators. These conferences are called Roundtables on Entrepreneurship Education (REE). They are designed to stimulate communication and collaboration between business, science, and engineering faculty who teach high-technology entrepreneurship in universities around the world.
- Harvard Business School Publishing Programs
  Description: For a number of years Harvard Business School Publishing has offered programs to help develop the next generation of case teaching faculty. Workshop titles include: The Art and Craft of Discussion Leadership and The Art and Craft of Case Instruction. Please see website for a schedule of upcoming conferences.
- The Experiential Classroom: Helping Produce Great Teachers of
  Entrepreneurship
  The Experiential Classroom is a rigorous three-day clinic designed to help faculty who are new to the teaching of entrepreneurship. The clinic is delivered by some of the top teachers in the country. Our focus is the core content of an entrepreneurship course, and the use of entrepreneurship cases, business plans, consulting projects, entrepreneurial audits, simulations, field assignments and related teaching tools to convey that content.
- Price-Babson College Fellows Program: Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE)
  Description: At the Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE), Price-Babson faculty and fellows are encouraged to identify, plan, and personalize their own strategy for entry or reentry in academia; and improve as teachers, learners, researchers, colleagues, and entrepreneurs. Participants explore the entrepreneurial process, the "art and craft" of teaching and learning entrepreneurship, and identify and explore new content, programs, and materials.
- Babson-Olin Symposium for Engineering Entrepreneurship Educators (SyE3)
  Description: Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) hosts four annual conferences for entrepreneurship educators. These conferences are called Roundtables on Babson-Olin SyE3 educates engineering educators about how to teach and apply entrepreneurship theory and practice as an integral part of engineering education. Babson-Olin SyE3 Alumni develop engineering graduates who not only have innovative ideas, but who can successfully transform their innovations into the products, systems, services, and companies that drive economic growth.
Associations
Entrepreneurship-related professional associations
- Beyster Institute for Entrepreneurial Employee Ownership
  Description: The Foundation for Enterprise Development, also known as the Beyster Institute, is a non-profit education, training and consulting organization dedicated to advancing the use of entrepreneurial employee ownership worldwide. The institute also creates an online magazine called Leading Companies.
- Academy of Management: Entrepreneurship Division
  Description: The Academy of Management is a professional society primarily composed of professors who conduct research and teach management in colleges, universities, or research institutes and doctoral students who are pursuing PhD's in management. The purpose of the Academy is to foster the general advancement of research, learning, teaching, and practice in the management field. The Entrepreneurship Division provides the membership of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management with a variety of information resources. The primary purpose of the Division is to encourage professional scholarship pertaining to the study of entrepreneurship within domestic and international environments and organizations.
- Academy of Entrepreurial Finance
  Description: The Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance is a non-profit organization established more than 12 years ago whose mission is to foster an exchange of ideas and research for both academics and practitioners in the area of entrepreneurial and small business finance. The Academy is governed by a board of directors who represent Florida State University, California State University, Baylor University, Georgetown University, University of New Hampshire, University of Alabama, University of Hawaii, and the SBA office in Washington D.C. The Academy promotes the exchange ideas and research through an annual conference and a journal publication.
- ASEE-Entrepreneurship Division
  Description: The American Society for Engineering Education is a nonprofit member association, founded in 1893, dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and technology education. The mission of the Entrepreneurship Division is to foster and disseminate approaches to educate and stimulate faculty and students in entrepreneurship, including partnerships with business schools as well as the business and technology enterprise communities.
- Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO)
  The Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization is the premier global entrepreneurship network serving more than 500 colleges and universities. It informs, supports, and inspires college students to be entrepreneurial and seek opportunity through enterprise creation.
- National Business Incubation Association (NBIA)
  The National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) is the world's leading organization advancing business incubation and entrepreneurship. It provides thousands of professionals with the information, education, advocacy and networking resources to bring excellence to the process of assisting early-stage companies worldwide.
  
  The association is composed primarily of incubator developers and managers, but technology commercialization specialists, educators and business assistance professionals are also well represented. Its mission is to provide training and a clearinghouse for information on incubator management and development issues and on tools for assisting start-up and fledgling firms.
- Global Consortium for Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC)
  Through the leadership of the University of Maryland, University of Southern California, and Ball State University, conferences were developed to bring together the best entrepreneurship centers in the United States. These conferences lead to the realization that greater collaboration among the directors of Entrepreneurship Centers would enhance and foster improvements in curriculum, research, outreach, projects and financial support for entrepreneurship.
  
  Under the sponsorship of the Kauffman Foundation, NASDAQ, and Beacon Venture Capital, the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers has been established for the purpose of continued collaboration among the centers. It is the vehicle by which the top established entrepreneurship centers, as well as the new emerging centers, can work together to share information; develop special projects, and assist each other in advancing and improving their centers' impact. The consortium seeks to become a focal point for the Entrepreneurship Centers across the United States to continue the advancement of entrepreneurial excellence.
- National Collegiate and Inventors Alliance (NCIIA)
  NCIIA is an alliance of faculty and students working to advance the teaching of invention and innovation in American higher education. Our mission is to nurture a new generation of innovators by promoting curricula designed to teach creativity, invention, and entrepreneurship.
- National Network for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
  (N2TEC)
  N2TEC is a National Science Foundation Partners-for-Innovation Project with the purpose of creating and implementing a national Technology Transfer and Commercialization Network to coordinate and provide a variety of resources and knowledge so that members, particularly underserved schools and communities, can collaborate and innovate. NSF provided the grant to the University of Southern California as the principal investigator on the project. N2TEC's Vision: To significantly raise the level of innovation and commercialization in the U.S.
- Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
  SIFE is a global, non-profit organization that is literally changing the world through highly dedicated student teams on more than 1400 university campuses in 33 countries. SIFE offers these students the opportunity to develop leadership, teamwork and communication skills through learning, practicing and teaching the principles of free enterprise, thereby improving the standard of living for millions in the process. Guided by distinguished faculty advisors and supported by businesses around the globe, SIFE Teams teach important concepts through educational outreach projects, including market economics, entrepreneurship, personal and financial success, and business ethics to better themselves, their communities and their countries. Each year, SIFE competitions are held worldwide, drawing together thousands of students and business leaders to pay tribute to these extraordinary educational outreach projects.
- USASBE (Technology Entrepreneurship Division)
  The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) is an eclectic group of government officials, directors of small business development centers, and academics in fields like finance, marketing, management, and economics united by their common interest in entrepreneurship and small business. As leaders in their fields, they are making an impact on government policy and on the development of small business and entrepreneurship. USASBE's forward-looking members are determined to remain on the cutting edge of research; they are extending the field of knowledge and shaping entrepreneurial thinking for the 21st Century.
- EDUCAUSE
  EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. EDUCAUSE sponsors discussion forums and email lists related to isssues in higher education and technology.
Entrepreneurship Centers Throughout the World
Universities and other organizations promoting entrepreneurship education