Abstract

It is widely believed that the technology-based entrepreneurship has great potential to increase wealth and competitiveness. Researchers believe that Technology-based Entrepreneurship Education (TEE) may raise students’ awareness about the technology entrepreneurship and the opportunities for technology commercialization. However, TEE has a relatively shorter history than conventional entrepreneurship education in business schools and there are fewer cases. This paper will use a revised 4W1H framework to review existing models of TEE and then present the TIPE model that has been implemented at a university in Hong Kong since 2001 for master students. Educational and policy implications are explored finally.

Highlights

  • The first entrepreneurship course was introduced as early as in the 1940s at Harvard University

  • The preparation of this paper provides an opportunity to study previous technology-based entrepreneurship education (TEE) models, review the TIPE model and the course, identify limitations and explore implications for future development

  • This paper reviewed previous models on TEE and reveals that entrepreneurship education (EE) and engineering entrepreneurship education (EEE) are not very different except audiences and delivering departments

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Introduction

The first entrepreneurship course was introduced as early as in the 1940s at Harvard University. In the 1970s, entrepreneurship education began to gain more attention and many business schools started to offer one or more courses in small business or entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship education growing fast, technology-based entrepreneurship education for engineering students was rather later and fewer [8, 9]. In a survey of 160 academic institutions, Streeter et al [10] found that entrepreneurship-related courses have been offered in nearly 90% of the bachelor programs in business schools while less than 40% engineering bachelor programs contain entrepreneurship courses. Bailetti [11] reviewed 93 articles on technology entrepreneurship, but none of these articles is related to technology-based entrepreneurship education (TEE). Researchers believe that Technology Entrepreneurship Education (TEE) may raise students’ awareness about the entrepreneurial opportunities for technology and commercialization [15].

Literature review of previous TEE models
The audiences (whom)
The objectives (why)
The contents (what)
The method (how)
The results (for which)
The deliver (by who)
The TIPE model for teaching technology entrepreneurship
The audience (for whom)
The deliverer (by who)
The content (what)
The assessment (for which result)
Discussions and implications
The collaboration between business schools and engineering schools for an interdisciplinary program
The balance between technology-push and market-pull to see the two sides of the same coin
The balance of short term and long terms effectiveness of TEE
Downstream entrepreneurship policy
Findings
Conclusions
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