Building An Entrepreneurial Engineering Ecosystem For Future Generations: The Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network
Building An Entrepreneurial Engineering Ecosystem For Future Generations: The Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network
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为子孙后代构建创业工程生态系统：克恩创业教育网络
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2008
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David Pistrui
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J. Blessing;Kristen Mekemson;David Pistrui
研究发现，将创业与创新整合到本科工程教育中可以提高学生的表现并提高保留率（Ohland, 2004）。它还为即将毕业的工程师在竞争激烈的全球市场所定义的快速变化的环境中工作做好准备。行业要求工程师具备更好的沟通和团队合作能力，最重要的是，对如何解决现实世界的问题和在市场上创造价值有更广泛的理解。虽然一些工程学院开始将创业和商业概念纳入课程，但许多获得abet认证的学院对行业和市场需求的反应迟缓。认识到这个问题正威胁着美国工程人才的质量，科恩家族基金会建立了科恩创业教育网络（KEEN），其使命是在工程、科学和技术本科生中培养一种以行动为导向的创业心态。KEEN计划于2005年启动，代表了一种新的、独特的创业方法来改善美国的本科教育。本文展示了如何在工程学院内部和学院之间建立一个创业生态系统，以KEEN为例，将为毕业的工程师进入以创新为基础的经济组织提供坚实的基础。生态系统可以定义为受各种因素影响的相互关联的环境。创业生态系统通过愿景、承诺、激情和围绕共同目标实现的创新将人们联系在一起。本文有五个目标：(1)建立对美国工程院校创新创业人才库的需求；(2)确定可以教授的关键技能和能力，以满足这一需求；(3)描述KEEN从一开始，记录新的和创新的创业为基础的本科工程教育项目是如何发展和形成的；(4)概述和总体评估KEEN学校正在开发的项目类型，以及KEEN计划对推进本科工程、科学和技术教育的影响；(5)提出一种新的、分阶段的连续创业教育模式，该模式将用于进一步发展和评估每所学校的KEEN项目的影响和可持续性。调查结果包括一系列关于如何开发新的有价值的教育项目和活动的现实例子和想法，这些项目和活动可以更好地为本科生在老牌企业、新兴企业和初创企业工作做好准备。
The integration of entrepreneurship and innovation into undergraduate engineering education has been found to enhance student performance and improve retention rates (Ohland, 2004). It also prepares graduating engineers to work in rapidly changing environments defined by a competitive global marketplace. Industry is asking for engineers with better communication and teamwork skills, and most importantly, a broader understanding of how to solve real world problems and create value in the marketplace. While some engineering schools are beginning to integrate entrepreneurship and business concepts into the curriculum, many ABET-accredited schools are slow to react to the needs of industry and the marketplace. Recognizing that this problem is threatening the quality of U.S. engineering talent, the Kern Family Foundation established the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) with the mission to create an action-oriented, entrepreneurial mindset among engineering, science and technical undergraduates. The KEEN initiative, launched in 2005, represents a new and unique entrepreneurial approach to improving undergraduate education in the U.S. This paper shows how building an entrepreneurial ecosystem within and among engineering schools, as exemplified by KEEN, will provide a strong foundation for graduating engineers entering organizations operating in an innovation-based economy. Ecosystems can be defined as environments with interconnected relationships influenced by a variety of factors. An entrepreneurial ecosystem links people by vision, commitment, passion, and innovation surrounding the achievement of a common goal. The paper has five objectives: (1) establish the need for an innovative and entrepreneurial talent pool coming out of U.S. engineering schools; (2) identify critical skills and abilities that can be taught to fulfill this need; (3) describe KEEN from its inception, documenting how new and innovative entrepreneurship-based undergraduate engineering education programs evolve and take shape; (4) provide an overview and general assessment of the types of programs KEEN schools are developing and the impact the KEEN initiative is having on advancing undergraduate engineering, science and technical education; and (5) present a new, staged continuum model of entrepreneurship education that will be used to further develop and assess each school’s KEEN program impact and sustainability. The findings include a series of real world examples and ideas of how to develop new and valuable educational programs and activities that better prepare undergraduate students to work in established enterprises, emerging businesses and start-ups.