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Working On A Start-Up: A Case For An Applied Entrepreneurship Oriented Course For Senior Undergraduates, Cristinel Ababei
Working On A Start-Up: A Case For An Applied Entrepreneurship Oriented Course For Senior Undergraduates, Cristinel Ababei
Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications
In this paper, we describe a new teaching approach whose objective is to implement entrepreneurship-based learning. The proposed teaching approach is essentially a project-based approach, but, with two novel key components that give it the entrepreneurship emphasis. First, the main idea is to divide students into groups of four or five members and have each team go through the process of starting-up a company. This process tries to emulate all steps through which entrepreneurs go when a new start-up idea is taken from concept to product realization. These steps include proposing a novel start-up idea, writing a business plan, coming …