Kathleen Allen is the author of more than fifteen books in the field of entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. As a professor of entrepreneurship and the Director of the USC-Marshall Center for Technology Commercialization, which she founded, Allen works with scientists and engineers to identify markets and applications for their technologies and to prepare them to seek funding. Her personal entrepreneurial endeavors include two successful companies in commercial real estate brokerage, development, and investment, and two technology-based businesses. She is also director of
... Read moreRobin D. Anderson is the Dean of the Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. School of Business and the Robert W. Franz Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of Portland (1998-present). As the Franz Chair, he has developed the entrepreneurship core in the business school courses, designed and taught the first entrepreneurship course offered at the university for non-business majors and initiated a cutting-edge three-course intensive study program for entrepreneurial students, called Entrepreneur Scholars (E-Scholars). The E-Scholars Program won the 2001 Model Award for Specialty Entrepreneurship Programs
... Read moreRob Andrews is a PhD Candidate the Applied Sustainability group at Queen's University. He received both an MASc and B. SC. in Mechanical Engineering with first class honours from the same institution. His research focus is on photovoltaic system design and environmentally responsible manufacturing.
Douglas Arion is the Hedberg Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Professor of Physics, and creator of the Entrepreneurial Studies in Natural Science Program at Carthage. He was a founder of the Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation in Racine, a technology business incubator, technology transfer, and entrepreneurship education center.
Adegboyega (Babs) Babasola is the lead Researcher at the Sustainable Energy Applied Research Centre in the School of Applied Science and Computing at St. Lawrence College. There he runs the Open Solar Outdoors Test Field.
James Barlow has worked in the university entrepreneurship space for seven years and has been commercial advisor or commercial director for sixteen start-ups as well as consulting internationally on start-up strategy, enterprise education and training. Prior to working in higher education, James was a performance coach, motivational speaker and strategy consultant for FTSE-listed companies and also worked in the pharmaceutical industry in sales and sales management. He earned his BSc Honours Degree in Biochemistry from the University of Kent.
Trish Boyles is an Assistant Professor of Business and the Miers Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at Muhlenberg College. Prior to joining Muhlenberg, she was the sole proprietor of a web design and consulting company focusing on e-commerce web sites for the small business market. She has a PhD in Management from Virginia Tech, an MBA from Western Carolina University, and bachelors degrees in Philosophy and English Literature from Appalachian State. Her professional interests include the utilization of web-based technologies by small businesses and developing pedagogy in undergraduate entrepreneurship
... Read moreTeresa Briggs is the Managing Partner for Deloitte LLP’s Silicon Valley practice, located in San Jose. This practice currently includes 900 people serving Silicon Valley's technology, clean tech and life sciences companies with competencies including consulting, accounting and auditing, tax and financial advisory. Teresa also leads Deloitte's Silicon Valley Cornerstone Initiative, which is a national investment program focused on doubling the size of the Silicon Valley practice and developing Deloitte's Center for the Edge. The Silicon Valley-based Center helps senior executives make sense of
... Read moreCory Brown is a poet and teaches creative writing and literary theory at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York.
Tom Byers is a principal investigator for the Epicenter, the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation. Byers is also founder and co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. A Stanford University engineering professor since 1995, Byers focuses on technology and high-growth entrepreneurship education. He is the lead author of a popular textbook, Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise, published by McGraw-Hill.Â
Byers is a past recipient of the prestigious Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, as well as Stanford’s Gores Award, the universityâ
... Read moreKimble A. Byrd is Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Rowan University. He combines a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School with over twenty years of university business school teaching and professional work experience as a lawyer in both private practice and government service. He co-directs the Rohrer Business Plan Competition.
RIT appointed Enid Cardinal senior sustainability advisor for the university in 2011. Cardinal is a LEED-accredited professional with a background in socially responsible investing and environmental policy. Cardinal previously served as director of the Office of Sustainability at Illinois State University. She worked to infuse a culture of sustainability at ISU that included a reduction of office paper use, waste reduction and food scrap composting in dining services, installation of permeable parking surfaces, ride sharing and an assessment of hand-drying options. Prior to ISU, she held positions
... Read moreDon Carpenter is Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Director for Assessment at Lawrence Technological University. Dr. Carpenter is also a Kern Fellow of Entrepreneurial Education.
Leticia Britos Cavagnaro currently serves as the associate director for the Epicenter, the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation. Britos Cavagnaro also serves as adjunct faculty of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, co-teaching the Creativity and Innovation course at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. Britos Cavagnaro holds a PhD in Developmental Biology from Stanford University's School of Medicine.
She is a former member of the REDlab (Research in Education & Design, Stanford School of Education), where she explored how design thinking impacts learning in K-20 e
... Read moreSri Condoor is Professor of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering and Director at St. Louis University. Dr. Condoor is also a Kern Fellow of Entrepreneurial Education and Editor of the Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship.
Claire P. Cornell is an Applied Instructor of Entrepreneurship at The University of Tulsa. She teaches courses in entrepreneurship, management, family business and general business for the Collins College of Business. She is an active participant in several educational initiatives at TU, such as Studio Blue and the TU Innovation Institute. Each year she mentors several student teams for the Oklahoma Governor's Cup business plan competition. She also serves as the Director of the Family-Owned Business Institute, a university-sponsored educational outreach program.
Dr. Carol Dahl is the Executive Director of The Lemelson Foundation and leads the foundation’s work to recognize and support inventors and invention-based enterprises to improve lives, both in the US and in developing countries. The Foundation believes that supporting a pipeline of inventors, inventions and invention-based enterprises can lead to job creation and a strengthened US economy as well as solve social, environmental and economic problems for the poorest populations in developing countries. Additionally, the Foundation works to strengthen the ecosystem that supports inspiring and educating
... Read moreMatt Draper is deputy director of the Shipley Center for Innovation at Clarkson University. Draper works directly with faculty, students, and staff on the commercialization of emerging technologies. Since joining the Shipley Center in October of 2010, this work has led to the development of the Clarkson Model for the Commercialization of Innovations, which is directly responsible for the formation of multiple startups in Upstate New York. Draper is a graduate of Clarkson, receiving an undergraduate degree in business administration as well as an MBA in 2003. Prior to joining the Shipley Center
... Read moreKathleen Eisenhardt is a principal investigator for the Epicenter, the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation. Kathleen Eisenhardt is the Stanford W. Ascherman M.D. Professor at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. She is also a visiting faculty member within INSEAD’s Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise area. Eisenhardt’s work centers on strategy and organization, especially in technology-based companies and high-velocity industries.
Eisenhardt has worked extensively in research and as a consultan
... Read moreBrooke R. Envick joined the faculty at St. Mary's University in 1996, shortly after completing her PhD at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is a Professor of Management, Director of the Meadows Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Director of the Entrepreneur Scholars Program. She also serves as Chairman of the Board for the Forum on Entrepreneurship Breakfast Series. Envick specializes her teaching in entrepreneurship, leadership, and small business management. She has received eleven teaching awards, including the Outstanding Educator Award for Innovative and Creative Teaching from the
... Read moreCraig Forest is an Assistant Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech with program faculty appointments in the departments of BioEngineering and BioMedical Engineering. From 2007-08 he was a research fellow in Genetics at Harvard Medical School working with Prof. George Church. He obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in June 2007 at the BioInstrumentation Laboratory, led by Prof. Ian Hunter. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 from Georgia Tech and an MS in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 from MIT. He was a Sandia National Laboratories
... Read moreRobert Gettens received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Lafayette College. After college, he served as a combat engineer officer in the 4th Infantry Division of the United States Army. After service in the Army, Rob worked for Baxter Healthcare Corporation as a Principal Engineer in the Medication Delivery Division. From Baxter, Rob decided to go back to school for his PhD in Biomedical Engineering. He is now on the faculty of Western New England University as an Assistant Professor, where for the past three years he has run the senior capstone design course. For the past three years, Rob
... Read moreForrest Glick is the chief information architect for the Epicenter, the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation. He also serves as Associate Director at the Stanford Technology Ventures (STVP). Glick is project lead for Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner (ecorner.stanford.edu), an internationally recognized website offering video clips and podcasts of entrepreneurial thought leaders from Silicon Valley and beyond. He also oversees the development of STVP’s various websites and projects related to the use of technology.
Specializing in the design and creation of online multi
... Read moreJose Gomez-Marquez is the program director for the Innovations in International Health initiative at MIT. Among the projects under his technology practice at IIH is the Aerovax Drug Delivery System, a device for mass delivery of inhalable drugs and vaccines to remote populations. The rest of his IIH invention portfolio includes SafePilot, a next generation cane for the blind, and most recently, the X out TB program, which aims to increase TB therapy adherence in developing countries using novel diagnostics and mobile technology. Recently, the group has developed the MEDIKit, a series of design
... Read moreDaegan Gonyer is a master's student at Clarkson University as well as a NSF fellow. Daegan co-founded Blue Sphere Industries in 2011 and serves as the CEO. The company focuses on sustainability in agriculture and has developed proprietary technology that reduces total consumption on the growing of produce.
Miguel Gonzalez is a graduate student in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
James Green leads the education activities of Mtech as the Director of Entrepreneurship Education with responsibilities for the Hinman CEOs Program, the Hillman Entrepreneurs Program, and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program at the University of Maryland. As a Senior Lecturer and Associate Director with Mtech, he designs and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. Dr. Green is Co-Director of the Certificate in Innovation Management Program for executives. His research interests include entrepreneurship education and the psychology
... Read moreJustin Hillery is a student at RIT and the recipient of an NCIIA Advanced E-Team grant.
Len Holmes is an Associate Professor in the UNC Pembroke Department of Chemistry and Physics. During his twenty years' tenure he has been active in research, service and teaching. He is successful in obtaining extramural funding from federal, state and regional agencies, and has brought greater than $3m in grants, contracts and gifts to the university for biotechnology development. Dr. Holmes' most significant contribution was the opening of the UNCP Biotechnology Research and Training Center (COMtech Park) in 2009. This 5,000 square foot laboratory conducts research focused especially on agricultural
... Read moreAileen Huang-Saad is a faculty member in the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department at the University of Michigan (U-M) and Assistant Director of Academic Programs in the U-M College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship. She is responsible for developing the BME department's first graduate design course that takes students through the innovation value chain in the classroom environment. Students work with U-M physicians in developing innovative solutions to medical challenges and are responsible for manufacturing prototypes and developing prototype commercialization plans. Aileen was recently
... Read moreStephen Jacobs is director of the Lab for Technological Literacy in RIT's Center for Student Innovation, Associate Professor of Interactive Games and Media, and Visiting Scholar at the National Center for the History of Electronic Games.
John Jewell is an assistant visiting professor of psychology and entrepreneurship at the College of Wooster.
Abdullah Konak is an Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the
Pennsylvania State University Berks. He received his degrees in Industrial Engineering (B.S. from Yildiz Technical University, Turkey, M.S. from Bradley University, and Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh). His current research interest is in the application of Operations Research techniques to complex problems, including such topics as telecommunication network design, network reliability analysis/optimization, facilities design, and data mining. He has published papers in IIE Transactions, Operations Research Letters, OMEGA-The International Journal of Management Science, IEEE Transactions on
Jamie Kraft is the Executive Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) in the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida. He came from Deloitte Consulting, where he spent several years as a management consultant focusing primarily on economic performance evaluation, competitive assessment and strategic development for clients in the manufacturing and consumer products industries. He graduated from the University of Arizona with an undergraduate degree in Microbiology and from the University of Florida in 1998 as a Matherly Scholar with a Masters
... Read moreSadan Kulturel-Konak, PhD is currently an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems, the coordinator of Engineering Entrepreneurship and the director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at Penn State Berks, which she joined in 2003. Dr. Kulturel teaches courses on Management Information Systems, Project Management, Business Statistics, Entrepreneurial Leadership and Entrepreneurship Capstone. Dr. Kulturel's research interests are in modeling and optimization of complex systems and robustness under uncertainty. Dr. Kulturel's other research interests consist
... Read moreScott Latham's research and consulting interests focus on the process of creative destruction--the interplay of innovation, entrepreneurship, and the business cycle that transforms industries. His dissertation focused on the dot com crash, specifically the strategies that successful companies employed to survive. His research has been published in a wide array of top academic journals, including Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Business Strategy, and the Journal of Management. He has also been cited in more practitioner-oriented media outlets, such as WFTX-TV, NECN, MSNBC, Entrepreneur
... Read moreMichael Lehman is a director of The Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership, based at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at The University of Pittsburgh. At the Institute, Lehman has been responsible for PantherlabWorks, a center supporting commercialization or new technology, as well as the student entrepreneurship program. Prior to arriving at Pitt, Lehman was the founding lead administrator of the Juniata College Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. He received a BS from Juniata College (Huntingdon, PA), an MD from the Penn State College of Medicine (Hershey, PA) and an MBA from
... Read moreDan'l Lewin, corporate vice president for Strategic and Emerging Business Development, is responsible for leading Microsoft's global engagement with startups and venture capitalists and business relationships with strategic industry partners. Dan’l’s teams focus on supporting the startup and entrepreneur ecosystem developing on the Microsoft platform while helping foster local software economies worldwide. Through the Microsoft BizSpark and Microsoft Innovation Center programs, the groups help accelerate startup success in more than 100 countries. He is also has executive and site responsibility
... Read moreCarl Lundgren is Faculty Lead in RIT's Center for Student Innovation, and a professor in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology/Packaging Science Department. He has been at RIT for over 28 years. Previously, he served as Lower Division Program Chair for Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology. His areas of interests include alternative energy systems, HVAC composites and biofuels. Scholarly works are in two areas, pedagogy, engaged learning through projected based learning and undergraduate research/product development; and bio-ethanol from ensiled biomass. Lundgren
... Read moreProfessor Marsnik has his BA from Saint John's University, and MA and PhD from the University of Nebraska in Organizational Behavior. After launching and operating a construction business for ten years, he joined CSB/SJU in 1994. Courses include Management and Organizational Behavior, Entrepreneurship, Business Ethics, Creativity and Innovation in Organizations and Introduction to Management. He is certified to administer a number of personality instruments including Meyers Briggs Type Indicator, Herrmann Brain Dominance Inventory, and Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory. He has been the faculty
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