Aligning Teaching, Research, and OutreachGVL Meeting at UC Berkeley

November 19, 2009Professor Tom Byers

Part of WEF’s Global Education

Initiative

Definitions

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Individual

Process

Attitudes, Skills, Behaviors

Role of Society

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Universities

Business

Government

“Champions”Foundations

NGOs

• National• Regional• Local

•Entrepreneurs • Growth companies & SMEs• Large companies and MNCs

• Business• Engineering• Science• Design• Medicine• Others

Funding and support

Importance of outreach

Importance of partnerships

Changing role of the university

#1 Student’s Skill

Development

#2 Region’s Economic

Development

#3 School’s Competitive Advantage

#4 Planet’s 21st-century Major Crises

Entrepreneurship Education’s Entrepreneurship Education’s

Driving ForcesDriving Forces

Teaching

Research

http//:ecorner.stanford.edu

2009 Roundtables onEntrepreneurship Education

http://ree.stanford.edu

Complementary, however …Complementary, however …

Technology Transfer

Entrepreneurship Education

  Technology Transfer

Entrepreneurship Education

Goals and Mission Commercialize inventions; generate income

Develop leadership skills; integrate courses and disciplines; provide the foundation for new businesses; forge links between academic and business groups; promote university tech transfer

Influence of Market Conditions

Significant Less

Time Horizon 0-10 years 0-40 years

Assessment Straightforward: inventions commercialized; licenses executed; revenue

Difficult: student enrollment and evaluations; correlations with later behavior

Providers and Constituency

Administrators and firms (that may involve faculty and/or students)

Faculty and students

Source: Nelson and Byers