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The McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship

Introduces the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiative.

 

In 2010 the Eller College of Management adopted a long range strategic plan identifying entrepreneurship as the key differentiator of the college. Eller turned to its own World Class Program, The McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, to launch the Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EI) Initiative. The initiative’s bold objective is to differentiate by Entrepreneurship:  Make entrepreneurial education, research, and operating style the strongest possible competitive differentiator of the Eller College of Management.

One of the more significant outcomes of the EI Initiative is the EI requirement.  This requirement is discussed more at the bottom of the page, where you will also be given the option to watch videos describing the classes available to Eller students seeking to fulfill this new requirement.

In addition to this 3- credit requirement, the EI initiative is impacting scholarly research, fostering collaborative dialogue and encouraging a culture of innovation throughout the University. 

The EI initiative has stimulated this surge in entrepreneurial creativity through many areas; a few of the more significant are listed here:

• An ongoing series of scholarly lunches, Where faculty and scholars with an interest in Entrepreneurship and Innovation gather to share ideas
• Entrepreneurship Research Small Grant Awards, Where research dedicated to advancing understanding and investigations of entrepreneurship and innovation is funded.
• McGuire Entrepreneurship Scholars Program, Where faculty across campus are incentivized to create curriculum in their respective disciplines with an Entrepreneurial or Innovative flair.

Following is a list of classes currently available through The McGuire Center or cross listed with ENTR.  Check back often as new courses continue to be developed.

CHEE/ENGR/ENTR 436 Engineering Innovation
CPH/ENTR 415/515 Strategic Planning
ENTR 200 Entrepreneurship in Society and the Organization
ENTR 340 Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Society & Orgs
ENTR 406/506 Principles of Entrepreneurship
ENTR 410 Innovation and the Creative Process
ENTR 453 Communication and Organizational Change
ENTR 468  Persuasion in Organizations
ENTR 554 Leading and Organizing for Innovation
ENTR/ENGR 420R/520R  Innovation Principles and Environments
ENTR/ENGR 421R/521R  Corporate Entrepreneurship
ENTR/ENGR/MED/OPTI/PATH 481a/581a Assessing Early Stage Medical Technologies for Commercial Potential
MGMT/ENTR 448 Healthcare Entrepreneurship
MUS/ENTR 160D1 Human Achievement and Innovation in the Arts
PHIL/FCSC/ENTR 404 The Ethical Marketplace
RSSS/ENTR 445/545 Business with/in Russia: Intercultural Competence and Communication
SIE/ENGR/ENTR 457/557 Project Management
SOC/ENTR 430 Social Networks

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As mention above, one of the more significant outcomes of the EI Initiative is the EI requirement.  Effective with the 2010-11 catalogue year, all entering Eller pre-business students are required to take an Entrepreneurship class during their college career.
This will now bring up to 1,200 students a year in contact with Entrepreneurship and Innovation classes—many of them offered by the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship

To meet the needs of these students, the McGuire Center has many options:

               
To help meet the needs of all the students impacted by this initiative, the McGuire Center has reached out to faculty across campus and induced them to create classes co-listed with ENTR.  Here is a list so far of what is and will be offered:

 

Background

 

Result of this decision

• Beginning with the 2010 UA Academic catalogue, Eller undergraduate students now have a three credit *Entrepreneurship and Innovation* (EI) requirement
• Students can fulfill the EI requirement through a range of course offerings at any time during their Eller career.
• The McGuire Center has developed a pre-business level course (ENTR 200) capable of meeting the needs of up to 800 students a year.
• In addition, McGuire offers several other courses that meet the EI requirement: ENTR 406, ENTR 420, and ENTR 410.
• Eller departments can designate/require specific EI courses for their majors.  Departments may select from among existing courses or identify an alternate course or offering, including embedding entrepreneurship and innovation content meaningfully into other major-specific courses.
• Eller departments will have the discretion to determine applicability of various courses to majors as electives.
• Undergraduate Programs Office and the McGuire Center will develop a simple process to record departmental requirements and catalogue specific course fulfillment options.

 

Please help us in identifying current courses offered by your department that you think may meet the EI requirement, or, let us know if you have any ideas for course development in the EI arena—funding may be available.

If you have any question, please don’t hesitate to contact myself or the Program Director, Sherry Hoskinson.

Wayne Jewett
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Initiative Concierge
In addition to ENTR 200, which is a large, survey class, students can also take the following “niche” courses taught by McGuire faculty in a more intimate, classroom:

• ENTR 406—Principles of Entrepreneurship, Matt Mars.
• ENTR 410—Innovation and the Creative Process, Matt Mars (Honors only)
• ENTR 420R—Innovation Principles and Environments, Jim Jindrick
• ENTR 421R—Corporate Entrepreneurship, Jim Jindrick
• MKTG 430—Retail Marketing, Robert Lusch

 

 

 

 

To help meet the needs of all the students impacted by this initiative, the McGuire Center has reached out to faculty across campus and induced them to create classes co-listed with ENTR.  Here is a list so far of what is and will be offered:

• Anthony Muscat, Associate professor with Chemical Engineering, is offering ChEE/ENTR 436—Engineering Innovation in fall of 2011.

 

• Marvin Slepian—world-renowned interventional cardiologist and co-founder of SynCardia Systems, Inc. is developing a class to be offered spring of 2012, entitled Innovation, Translation and Medical Entrepreneurship.  ENTR 481A

• Theresa Polowy, Department Head of Russian and Slavic Studies, is offering RSSS/ENTR 445—Business with Russia in spring of 2012.

 

• Cynthia White from Classics and Lehman Benson from Eller Management are developing a fascinating class entitled  Augustus, Entrepreneur of Empire

• Stephen Gilliland, Department Head of Management, will offer MGMT/ENTR 448—Healthcare Entrepreneurship in spring 2012.

 

• Engineering, Family and Consumer Sciences, and MIS also have classes in the works that students can take to meet the E&I initiative. 

Please contact the McGuire Center or your Eller advisor if you want information

 

For more information, Please read our FAQs.

 

For additional information, please contact Wayne Jewett. Office hours: 8am-11am daily in McClelland Hall, Room 116F| 520-626-4031 | wjewett@eller.arizona.edu