Entrepreneurship at ASU

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Arizona Technology Enterprises LLC (AzTE)

Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE) brings together ASU’s researchers and industry partners to transform scientific discoveries into marketable products and services. AzTE transfers technologies invented at ASU to the private sector by mining university research, prosecuting patents, negotiating licenses and marketing inventions. AzTe also manages the ASU Catalyst Fund, which is dedicated to providing proof-of-concept and prototype development funding to faculty in order to ready ASU technology for commercialization.

ASU Technopolis

ASU Technopolis, an initiative of ASU’s Office of Economic Affairs, spurs innovation in Greater Phoenix by equipping technology, life science, and other innovative entrepreneurs with the skills and contacts they need to better succeed in the marketplace. ASU Technopolis delivers classroom-style survey courses, one-on-one coaching/mentoring, SBIR grant-writing seminars and networking events to a diverse group of entrepreneurs, innovators, faculty and students. In less than two years, approximately 300 entrepreneurs have participated in ASU Technopolis programs, and more than 420 experts have been involved with the program as mentors, advisors, panelists and volunteer coaches. The return on investment is nearly 10-to-1.

Barrett Honors College

The Barrett Honors College has recently created an entrepreneurial course for its students. The College, with more than 2700 students, was recently described by a national publication as providing an “Ivy League-style education” without the expense. The College’s 2003 and 2004 freshman classes have each had over 160 National Merit Scholars, and the Lorraine W. Frank Office of National Scholarship Advisement has helped ASU students receive a large number of competitive graduate awards such as Fulbright grants and Truman, Goldwater and Marshall Scholarships.

Center for Law, Science and Technology

The Center for the Study of Law, Science & Technology, a research center within ASU’s College of Law, has developed a leading program in Innovation and New Technology Law (“Innovation Law”). Innovation Law seeks to combine legal and business issues as they relate to entrepreneurial clients engaged in technology-related initiatives. The curriculum, ranging from introductory courses to advanced syntheses of law and business, is part of the Law, Science, and Technology Certificate Program, and Certificate in Innovation Law program is being developed. Entrepreneurial support includes sponsorship of Legal Alchemy, a student-led group that provides free IP-related legal advise, preparation of the initial Inventor’s Handbook, and resources for IP and innovation law research.

Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Management

The Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Management helps build the capacity of social sector organizations to improve the quality of life in communities. Through research, education and outreach activities, the Center provides knowledge and tools that enhance the effectiveness of those who lead and manage nonprofit organizations. It serves the nonprofit community as a resource for training, education and research. The Center recently won a $4.1 million grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to further its activities in non-profit capacity building. The Center is increasingly addressing issues of social enterprise, making that the subject of its Annual Forum on Nonprofit Effectiveness in March 2005.

Certificate for Automotive Entrepreneurs and Leaders

The W. P. Carey School of Business Certificate for Automotive Entrepreneurs and Leaders (CAEL) enriches the knowledge and skills acquired in the W. P. Carey School of Business by exposing students to the intricacies of an exciting industry. In the past 20 years, automotive dealerships have become increasingly more complex enterprises due to industry consolidation, advances in information technology and supply chain management issues. Dealers/owners, along with other automotive-related firm executives and managers, need the skills that students are acquiring at the W. P. Carey School to effectively manage their operations.

Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative

The Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative is a key component in building ASU’s entrepreneurial climate, providing student-led teams with the tools, resources, and confidence they need to start a new venture, both for-profit or not-for-profit. Unlike other entrepreneurial competitions that provide money and resources to a small number of winners, the Edson Initiative provides a total of $200,000, office space and training each year to a large number of student-led entrepreneurial ventures of all types. In its inaugural year, the Initiative is providing funds to 16 teams of students from across the university to explore their innovative ideas for business products and services in partnership with faculty, researchers and successful entrepreneurs from both the academic and private sectors.

Entrepreneurial Programs Office

The Entrepreneurial Programs Office (EPO), an Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering unit, increases the exposure of engineering students to entrepreneurial concepts and opportunities. The EPO undergraduate curriculum prepares students to work for and thrive in entrepreneurial organizations, and it offers an online “Technology Entrepreneurship” course for graduate students. EPO is also organizing ASU’s representation at the Intel-Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge. ASU is one of five universities around the world to participate in this prestigious competition.

InnovationSpace

InnovationSpace, a collaboration among the College of Design, the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and the W. P. Carey School of Business, is an interdisciplinary product development course that emphasizes social and environmental responsibility. In the InnovationSpace studio class, student teams work to define new product offerings, develop and refine product concepts, build engineering prototypes, and create business plans and visual materials to communicate the end results for clients that include university researchers, independent inventors, entrepreneurs and corporations.

ASU at the Polytechnic Campus

The curriculum of the Polytechnic Campus’s Bachelor of Science in Business Administration provides essential business competencies, knowledge of business disciplines and methods, and appreciation for contemporary business environments and cultures. The program prepares students for careers in business, industry, and government, as well as career advancement and entrepreneurial enterprises. Additionally, the Technology and Development program operates an International Programs Unit that provides opportunities for research and hands-on development work for faculty and graduate students. The majority of projects conducted thus far have focused on technology transfer, project management, and the reform and redesign of curricula and systems of education.

School of Global Management and Leadership

The School of Global Management and Leadership (SGML) at the West Campus provides a technology-rich learning environment with an outstanding, research-intensive faculty devoted to delivering a state-of-the-art, globally-rich curriculum. SGML is focused on preparing leaders who understand what it means to successfully work in a global context whether in Arizona or elsewhere in the world. The School is currently developing a Latin American focused business program.

Technology Venture Clinic

Technology Venture Clinic (TVC) is a “market-focused” enterprise that leverages the intellectual capital of ASU students to technology transfer services. Students from across the university are recruited to work for TVC, gaining first-hand knowledge of best practices in all aspects of technology commercialization and venturing, including patent investigation, business modeling, deal structuring and market assessment and research. Each member of the clinic receives class credit for participation, but equally as important, is integrated directly into the operations of a for-profit transaction venturing company.

Office of University Initiatives (UI)

The Office of University Initiatives (UI) advances the vision for the New American University. UI transforms Arizona State University by launching and embedding exemplar initiatives, leveraging and expanding university knowledge, and strengthening ASU’s organizational capacity. UI promotes recognition of ASU as an entrepreneurial, socially embedded institution through conceptual understanding of universities as social and economic drivers and communication of the New American University idea and activities. UI also works to connect like-minded individuals and institutions through building local, national and global networks and formalizing best practices to drive social change.

W. P. Carey School of Business

The Spirit of Enterprise Center: The Spirit of Enterprise Center serves as a centralized data collection and dissemination resource to help small and medium-size business continuously improve business practices. The center provides ongoing learning and business advancement opportunities, include one-on-one counseling and advice to entrepreneurs and small businesses as they create and grow companies, a Hispanic business scholar-in-residence program, Family Business forum, a lecture series and the annual Spirit of Enterprise award. The Spirit of Enterprise Center also provides students with opportunities to gain applied experience by working on specific, small business projects.
Certificate for Automotive Entrepreneurs and Leaders: Students in the CAEL program learn the workings of the industry from the inside through coursework focused on automotive issues and an internship or comparable experience. The in-depth content presented in classes and the hands-on enrichment of the internship builds on basic business knowledge such as finance, accounting, marketing, management, economics and computer information systems.
Certificate in Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Students majoring in an undergraduate business degree at the Carey School can receive a Certificate in Small Business and Entrepreneurship by completing five approved courses, two of which must be “Small Business and Entrepreneurship” and “Business Plan Development.” The certificate program provides students with the skills necessary to be a vital part of a new entrepreneurial venture, as well as preparing them for the challenges that starting a new business presents.
Masters Consulting Group (MCG): The Masters Consulting Group allows MBA students to apply what they have learned in the classroom to a real world situation, providing integrative consulting services at reasonable prices. A non-profit consulting firm comprised of Carey School graduate students and faculty, MCG’s three operational priorities are to obtain and coordinate consulting projects from local businesses to be staffed by ASU MBA students, to provide case competition opportunities for all ASU MBA students, and to promote MCG and its functions/activities to the student body and the business community.
MBA Entrepreneurs Club: The MBA Entrepreneurs Club develops the entrepreneurial skills of its members by providing for the exchange of business ideas among its members and other entrepreneurs. The Club seeks to build and nurture a pool of entrepreneurial talent that is part of the local, national and international business community.
MBA Technology Program with Certificate in Entrepreneurship: The MBA Technology Program utilizes the faculty of both the Carey School and the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering to deliver a distinctive degree that addresses the challenges of the technology marketplace from the perspective of both disciplines. Students in the Program tailor their MBA to meet the needs of their career aspirations by choosing one of five certificates, one of which is for entrepreneurship/ intrapreneurship. This certificate is based on a series of entrepreneurship courses, followed by the development of a “live” business plan. The end result is an MBA prepared to build technology startups and/or spinoffs.

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	Entrepreneurship at ASU Download a PDF of ASU classes for Fall 2007 Arizona Technology Enterprises LLC (AzTE) Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE) brings together ASU’s researchers and industry partners to transform scientific discoveries into marketable products and services. AzTE transfers technologies invented at ASU to the private sector by mining university research, prosecuting patents, negotiating licenses and marketing inventions. AzTe also manages the ASU Catalyst Fund, which is dedicated to providing proof-of-concept and prototype development funding to faculty in order to ready ASU technology for commercialization. ASU Technopolis ASU Technopolis, an initiative of ASU’s Office of Economic Affairs, spurs innovation in Greater Phoenix by equipping technology, life science, and other innovative entrepreneurs with the skills and contacts they need to better succeed in the marketplace. ASU Technopolis delivers classroom-style survey courses, one-on-one coaching/mentoring, SBIR grant-writing seminars and networking events to a diverse group of entrepreneurs, innovators, faculty and students. In less than two years, approximately 300 entrepreneurs have participated in ASU Technopolis programs, and more than 420 experts have been involved with the program as mentors, advisors, panelists and volunteer coaches. The return on investment is nearly 10-to-1. Barrett Honors College The Barrett Honors College has recently created an entrepreneurial course for its students. The College, with more than 2700 students, was recently described by a national publication as providing an “Ivy League-style education” without the expense. The College’s 2003 and 2004 freshman classes have each had over 160 National Merit Scholars, and the Lorraine W. Frank Office of National Scholarship Advisement has helped ASU students receive a large number of competitive graduate awards such as Fulbright grants and Truman, Goldwater and Marshall Scholarships. Center for Law, Science and Technology The Center for the Study of Law, Science & Technology, a research center within ASU’s College of Law, has developed a leading program in Innovation and New Technology Law (“Innovation Law”). Innovation Law seeks to combine legal and business issues as they relate to entrepreneurial clients engaged in technology-related initiatives. The curriculum, ranging from introductory courses to advanced syntheses of law and business, is part of the Law, Science, and Technology Certificate Program, and Certificate in Innovation Law program is being developed. Entrepreneurial support includes sponsorship of Legal Alchemy, a student-led group that provides free IP-related legal advise, preparation of the initial Inventor’s Handbook, and resources for IP and innovation law research. Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Management The Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Management helps build the capacity of social sector organizations to improve the quality of life in communities. Through research, education and outreach activities, the Center provides knowledge and tools that enhance the effectiveness of those who lead and manage nonprofit organizations. It serves the nonprofit community as a resource for training, education and research. The Center recently won a $4.1 million grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to further its activities in non-profit capacity building. The Center is increasingly addressing issues of social enterprise, making that the subject of its Annual Forum on Nonprofit Effectiveness in March 2005. Certificate for Automotive Entrepreneurs and Leaders The W. P. Carey School of Business Certificate for Automotive Entrepreneurs and Leaders (CAEL) enriches the knowledge and skills acquired in the W. P. Carey School of Business by exposing students to the intricacies of an exciting industry. In the past 20 years, automotive dealerships have become increasingly more complex enterprises due to industry consolidation, advances in information technology and supply chain management issues. Dealers/owners, along with other automotive-related firm executives and managers, need the skills that students are acquiring at the W. P. Carey School to effectively manage their operations. Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative The Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative is a key component in building ASU’s entrepreneurial climate, providing student-led teams with the tools, resources, and confidence they need to start a new venture, both for-profit or not-for-profit. Unlike other entrepreneurial competitions that provide money and resources to a small number of winners, the Edson Initiative provides a total of $200,000, office space and training each year to a large number of student-led entrepreneurial ventures of all types. In its inaugural year, the Initiative is providing funds to 16 teams of students from across the university to explore their innovative ideas for business products and services in partnership with faculty, researchers and successful entrepreneurs from both the academic and private sectors. Entrepreneurial Programs Office The Entrepreneurial Programs Office (EPO), an Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering unit, increases the exposure of engineering students to entrepreneurial concepts and opportunities. The EPO undergraduate curriculum prepares students to work for and thrive in entrepreneurial organizations, and it offers an online “Technology Entrepreneurship” course for graduate students. EPO is also organizing ASU’s representation at the Intel-Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge. ASU is one of five universities around the world to participate in this prestigious competition. InnovationSpace InnovationSpace, a collaboration among the College of Design, the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and the W. P. Carey School of Business, is an interdisciplinary product development course that emphasizes social and environmental responsibility. In the InnovationSpace studio class, student teams work to define new product offerings, develop and refine product concepts, build engineering prototypes, and create business plans and visual materials to communicate the end results for clients that include university researchers, independent inventors, entrepreneurs and corporations. ASU at the Polytechnic Campus The curriculum of the Polytechnic Campus’s Bachelor of Science in Business Administration provides essential business competencies, knowledge of business disciplines and methods, and appreciation for contemporary business environments and cultures. The program prepares students for careers in business, industry, and government, as well as career advancement and entrepreneurial enterprises. Additionally, the Technology and Development program operates an International Programs Unit that provides opportunities for research and hands-on development work for faculty and graduate students. The majority of projects conducted thus far have focused on technology transfer, project management, and the reform and redesign of curricula and systems of education. School of Global Management and Leadership The School of Global Management and Leadership (SGML) at the West Campus provides a technology-rich learning environment with an outstanding, research-intensive faculty devoted to delivering a state-of-the-art, globally-rich curriculum. SGML is focused on preparing leaders who understand what it means to successfully work in a global context whether in Arizona or elsewhere in the world. The School is currently developing a Latin American focused business program. Technology Venture Clinic Technology Venture Clinic (TVC) is a “market-focused” enterprise that leverages the intellectual capital of ASU students to technology transfer services. Students from across the university are recruited to work for TVC, gaining first-hand knowledge of best practices in all aspects of technology commercialization and venturing, including patent investigation, business modeling, deal structuring and market assessment and research. Each member of the clinic receives class credit for participation, but equally as important, is integrated directly into the operations of a for-profit transaction venturing company. Office of University Initiatives (UI) The Office of University Initiatives (UI) advances the vision for the New American University. UI transforms Arizona State University by launching and embedding exemplar initiatives, leveraging and expanding university knowledge, and strengthening ASU’s organizational capacity. UI promotes recognition of ASU as an entrepreneurial, socially embedded institution through conceptual understanding of universities as social and economic drivers and communication of the New American University idea and activities. UI also works to connect like-minded individuals and institutions through building local, national and global networks and formalizing best practices to drive social change. W. P. Carey School of Business The Spirit of Enterprise Center: The Spirit of Enterprise Center serves as a centralized data collection and dissemination resource to help small and medium-size business continuously improve business practices. The center provides ongoing learning and business advancement opportunities, include one-on-one counseling and advice to entrepreneurs and small businesses as they create and grow companies, a Hispanic business scholar-in-residence program, Family Business forum, a lecture series and the annual Spirit of Enterprise award. The Spirit of Enterprise Center also provides students with opportunities to gain applied experience by working on specific, small business projects. Certificate for Automotive Entrepreneurs and Leaders: Students in the CAEL program learn the workings of the industry from the inside through coursework focused on automotive issues and an internship or comparable experience. The in-depth content presented in classes and the hands-on enrichment of the internship builds on basic business knowledge such as finance, accounting, marketing, management, economics and computer information systems. Certificate in Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Students majoring in an undergraduate business degree at the Carey School can receive a Certificate in Small Business and Entrepreneurship by completing five approved courses, two of which must be “Small Business and Entrepreneurship” and “Business Plan Development.” The certificate program provides students with the skills necessary to be a vital part of a new entrepreneurial venture, as well as preparing them for the challenges that starting a new business presents. Masters Consulting Group (MCG): The Masters Consulting Group allows MBA students to apply what they have learned in the classroom to a real world situation, providing integrative consulting services at reasonable prices. A non-profit consulting firm comprised of Carey School graduate students and faculty, MCG’s three operational priorities are to obtain and coordinate consulting projects from local businesses to be staffed by ASU MBA students, to provide case competition opportunities for all ASU MBA students, and to promote MCG and its functions/activities to the student body and the business community. MBA Entrepreneurs Club: The MBA Entrepreneurs Club develops the entrepreneurial skills of its members by providing for the exchange of business ideas among its members and other entrepreneurs. The Club seeks to build and nurture a pool of entrepreneurial talent that is part of the local, national and international business community. MBA Technology Program with Certificate in Entrepreneurship: The MBA Technology Program utilizes the faculty of both the Carey School and the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering to deliver a distinctive degree that addresses the challenges of the technology marketplace from the perspective of both disciplines. Students in the Program tailor their MBA to meet the needs of their career aspirations by choosing one of five certificates, one of which is for entrepreneurship/ intrapreneurship. This certificate is based on a series of entrepreneurship courses, followed by the development of a “live” business plan. The end result is an MBA prepared to build technology startups and/or spinoffs.
Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative 21 E. 6th Street, Suite 126C Tempe , AZ 85281 phone 480-965-0036 fax 480-965-2221 \|