Our research agenda will focus on the need for continuous awareness of the need for innovation, improved development of synergistic research activities, better understanding of the field of technology development, and accelerated transfer to commercialization and entrepreneurial start-up.
Minutes from USASBE Technology Entrepreneurship Division –
Tucson
– 1/13/06
(Note: I’ve included names of those volunteering ideas for next year’s program in italics; if I’ve missed any, please send corrections or additions. Thanks! Anne York)
2006 Division Officers: Ann Dugan, Vice President (
Pittsburgh
); Kelvin
Willoughby
, Vice President-Elect (
Minnesota
); Anne York, Program Chair (UN-Omaha); Michael Meeks; Program Chair-Elect (U.
San Francisco
).
Membership: We are the youngest and yet the largest focused (vs. general interest) division of all USASBE divisions with 255 members. However, only about 10% of our members attended the division meeting. One goal is to increase active participation in the division this year, especially when it comes to paper and workshop submissions. Toward that end, we are hoping to pursue some monetary awards to those participating.
2006 Program: This year our division had a record number of submissions, with one workshop and six papers (two paper session) accepted, along with an all-USASBE workshop. One paper submission received a USASBE “best paper” award.
Division Review: Our division will be coming up for review in 2008-9, so officers need to begin preparing for that event.
NCLSE (National Consortium for Life Sciences Entrepreneurship): Michael Fountain’s organization headquartered at
U.
of
South Florida
and sponsored by Kauffman is interested in joining USASBE and being more involved in our division. Toward that end, Bill Marshall, Associate Dean of the College of Medicine at USF, offered to host a pre-conference workshop on USF’s activities, structure and facilities to which both members and Dean’s would be the proposed participants.
Domain Definition and Possibility of Special Issue/New Journal: While interest in the area of technology entrepreneurship is growing, because both “technology” and “entrepreneurship” are interdisciplinary areas, it’s difficult to define the domain, much less position research for publication in existing journals. It was suggested that the division begin defining more clearly and specifically the topics that would be included in its domain. This would help not only in soliciting papers and workshops for the annual program, but also help in determining the need for special issues of journals or even a journal dedicated to the field. It would also help us understand which journals want what sorts of submissions. (Roxanne Zolin). One suggestion was offering our best papers/workshops as a special topics cluster of a different journal or two each year. It was also suggested that we have journal editors host a session about what they are looking for in submissions in our domain. Examples of targeted journals might be the USASBE Journals Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Journal of Small Business Management and Journal of Business Venturing ,as well as Journal of Technology Transfer and R&D Management Journal. Another way to go is to look at a special volume of an edited JAI series, which could be the first issue of a new journal if there were enough interest.
Opportunities/Ideas for 2007 Program Workshops: Several new areas were suggested for workshops for next year’s program. Among them were an exploration of domain definition, based on a literature review (David Pistrui); an exploration of various models for interdisciplinary technology entrepreneurship programs and for how to integrate technology into existing entrepreneurship programs, as some schools are not yet doing this (Ken Zolot); and a translation workshop in which terms and concepts from the sciences and business were explained and connected.
Reviewers/ Paper Submissions for 2007 Program: The 2007 program deadlines will be approaching before we know it. Ann Dugan will be sending out minutes and copies of workshop and session overheads to members to remind them of the 2006 program and ask for ideas, time, and help with 2007. Next year there will be a best reviewer award to increase the interest and participation of members in the review process.
Thanks to John Rollins (George Washington), outgoing division vice president, for his incredible leadership. John picked up the division in its early life stages, when two chairs in a row couldn’t continue in office. He has guided the division through the development of a mission statement and a period of rapid membership and program growth. His service is greatly appreciated!
