Organization:Stanford Technology Ventures Program

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Overview

The Stanford Technology Ventures Program Entrepreneurship corner is a  free online archive of entrepreneurship resources for teaching and learning.The Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) is the entrepreneurship education and research center located within the School of Engineering at Stanford University. The center is hosted by the department of Management Science and Engineering. The purpose of the center is to accelerate high-technology entrepreneurship research and education for engineers and scientists worldwide. STVP supports academic research on high-technology entrepreneurship and teaches a wide range of courses to science and engineering students on campus. Outreach programs include annual conferences, campus-wide collaboration, and dissemination of teaching content through the Entrepreneurship Corner website. 

Purpose

The purpose of the project is to support and encourage faculty around the world who teach entrepreneurship to future scientists, engineers, managers, and others.

The mission of the project is to support and encourage faculty around the world who teach entrepreneurship to scientists and engineers. The design of the archive is based on feedback from entrepreneurship educators regarding the challenges faced when teaching entrepreneurship to students of all majors and disciplines (e.g., engineers and scientists). 

The project has three major efforts:

  • To encourage faculty to think about how entrepreneurship should be taught to all students.
  • To prepare educational resources from the high-technology industry for access and reuse by others.
  • To develop an archive of digital resources, and thereby provide access to a network of resources for entrepreneurship educators.

Distinct Differences From Other Offerings

This program offers connection to Stanford's resources and pooled resources for entrepreneurship education resources. These resources are pooled by faculty belonging to the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Also offered are teaching workshops on entrepeneurship education.

Impact Achieved For Students and Campus

  • Bottom line: Venture for America is a strong training program for graduating students who want to get into business creation and also helps revitalize our economy. Todays VFA partnerships are over 50% non-technical, so it does not limit any candidates from applying (in some ways, the fellowship seeks to open doors particularly for these students).  Therefore, Venture for America's resources would be best used on a campus looking to: (a) give benevolent entrepreneurial students a new outlet for post-graduation plans, (b) create a role-model/success story, (c) build support for this lifestyle as a career path.
  • By advertising Venture for America as a prestigious scholarship/fellows program, a campus ambassador could build a long-term vision in students from varying degree paths and eventually place high achieving students in the program. 

Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus

If you are a faculty and staff person visiting from another institution,

If you are researcher,

  • Attend a Research Seminar on the Stanford University Campus
  • Watch videos from esteemed researchers in our research section

If you are an entrepreneur, investor, other business professional, or policy maker,

Contact Information

Mailing Address:

Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Huang Engineering Center, Suite 003
MC 4026
475 Via Ortega
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4121

Co-Director
Tom Byers
tbyers@stanford.edu 
Phone: (650) 725-8271

Co-Director
Kathleen Eisenhardt
kme@stanford.edu 
Phone: (650) 723-1887

Executive Director
Tina Seelig
tseelig@stanford.edu 
Phone: (650) 725-1627

Associate Director
Forrest Glick
fglick@stanford.edu 
Phone: (650) 723-4371

Program Coordinator
Nikkie Salgado
nikkie@stanford.edu 
Phone: (650) 723-2164

Multimedia Developer
Eli Shell
eshell@stanford.edu 
Phone: (650) 723-2164

Content & Communications Editor
Matt Harvey
mtharvey@stanford.edu 
Phone: (650) 723-6715

Manager of International Partnerships
Rebecca Edwards
rebecca_edwards@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-2164

Entrepreneurship Concierge
Angela Hayward
ahayward@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 704-3129