Engineering Entrepreneurship: A Unique Cooperation Between University and Industry Gregory P. Crawford Eric M. Suuberg Division of Engineering, Box D Brown University Providence, RI 02912 [email protected][email protected]Advanced Manufacturing Institute Conference on University And Manufacturing Industry Collaboration Kansas State University August 2002
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Engineering Entrepreneurship:
A Unique Cooperation Between University and Industry
Engineering Entrepreneurship:
A Unique Cooperation Between University and Industry
Mission StatementTo provide engineering and non-engineeringstudents a truly high-technology entrepreneurial business experience and challenging engineeringdesign experience by interacting with local industry & business professionals.
Funded by the National Science Foundation:Action Agenda for Systemic Engineering Reform EEC-9972938
Thoughts from a IP LawyerThoughts from a IP Lawyer
Reference: Neil Ferraro, Wolf Greenfield & Sachs (Boston, MA)Brown Venture Forum, March 2002
Goals
Goals
Create Start-Up
Upperclass Design Course
Product Development for Sponsor Company
All inventors assign rights to sponsoring company
Proceed with no agreements (Probably o.k.)
Assign rights to student company No inventions assigned to sponsor Company co-inventors assign rights to student company Sponsoring company agrees not to receive shop right.
Course TimelineCourse TimelineFo
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Faculty & Guest Lectures Faculty & Guest Lectures
Faculty screen ideas:• No tech service• No product improve- ment
• Students Will Talk• No NDA’s• If necessary then ‘good faith’
GradingGrading
Mentor Feedback
Self and Personnel Evaluations
Frequent Interactions
Quality of Work Product
• Presentations• Written work• Engineering design
• Students always suggest pass / fail option (Faculty disagree)• Grades < A, Students either drop out or become motivated• Important to privately discuss performance with students
Success / Work ProductSuccess / Work ProductJournal of Engineering Education Engineering Entrepreneurship: An Example of a Paradigm Shift in Engineering Education (April 2002, page 185)
National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators AllianceFour student teams were awarded $15-20K each to continual their efforts. NCIIA also supported smaller grants for student travel.
Brown Venture ForumDeveloping New Products with Non-Traditional ResourcesMarch 2002
National Science FoundationSuuberg & Crawford preparing field manual for other universitiesDisclose successes and failures of our venture.
Advanced Manufacturing InstituteEngineering Entrepreneurship: A Unique Cooperation BetweenUniversity and Industry, August 12-13, 2001, Kansas State Intellectual Property
Student groups have filed provision patent applications.
Brown Entrepreneurship ProgramFerrosity – 2002 Winner – 25K Award.
Course Goal Assessment Course Goal Assessment Pro
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Compared to other Browncourses that you have taken,do you feel that this experiencewas:
More ValuableComparableLess Valuable
Student TestimoniesStudent Testimonies
“The course bridged the gap between academics and real life. Theory, problem solving, and midterms are fine, but this course used other, more challenging ways to test the students…”
“I think this is by far the best, most applicable, greatest functional class that I have ever taken…”
“This is like the real thing! The professors created real life circumstances in a business environment to develop a technology and apply it to the market demand...”
“It has been one of the more challenging and time consuming courses, but at the same time, more exciting and most rewarding of, probably all course that I have taken at Brown …”
Post CoursePost Course
Education
Is Our
Product
Independent Funding
• RI B-Plan Competition• NCIIA Competition • SBIR Programs• Angles / VCs / Family
NewRelationship
• Relative to Brown
• Relative to Sponsor
SummarySummary
Course is intensive for Students• Engineers Heavy Engin Course• Non-Engineers Very Heavy Load
Faculty resource intensive• 1.5 faculty required for 24 students• Time consuming/ long hours/ late nights
Amazing Opportunity
• Enriching for faculty• Learn something new• Other benefits
• Enriching for students• Business experience• written/oral/presentation skills
AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements
Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF): Action Agenda for Systemic Engineering Reform
(EEC-9972938)
National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA):Provided funding for two student teams to carry on their entrepreneurial efforts after the class, and alsoproviding travel funds to students within the class to attend professional workshops and conferences
Division of Engineering for providing funding to create the entrepreneurial headquarters