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R. Duane Ireland
Distinguished Professor of Management
Foreman R. and Ruby S. Bennett Chair in Business
Mays Business School
Texas A&M University

As entrepreneurship scholars, we seek to create and disseminate knowledge. Journals are an important channel we use to do this. However, publishing our research in various journals is an uncertain process featuring multiple challenges. Gaining insights from gatekeepers (e.g., journal editors and editorial review board members) regarding actions they believe increases the likelihood of publication success can inform the nature of our scholarly efforts. Feedback from journal gatekeepers regarding publication challenges and avenues to pursue to deal with those challenges will inform the discussion in this session.

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Michael H. Morris, PhD
Chris J. Witting Chair and Professor
Department of Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprises
Whitman School of Management
Syracuse University

Entrepreneurship programs take many forms and serve a diverse mix of objectives. A central question concerns the manner in which these programs impact and are impacted by the entrepreneurial community. This session examines best practices at the dynamic interface between the entrepreneurship curriculum, program outreach, experiential learning, and discontinuous academic innovation. Implications are drawn for a fundamental transformation of our universities and colleges.

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Michael W. Fountain, PhD, MBA
John and Beverley Grant Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship, College of Business
Professor, Department of Industrial Management and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, USF Health
University of South Florida

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William G. Marshall, Jr., MD, MBA, MSE
Associate Dean & Associate Vice-President for Clinical Affairs and Venture Development, USF Health
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Assistant Director, Center for Entrepreneurship
University of South Florida

The greatest area of need and opportunity for growth in entrepreneurship education and training lies beyond the walls of our colleges of business. We will explore how to develop and deliver innovative education programs designed to embrace students from across our campuses. We will discuss the use of creative pedagogies designed with specific emphasis for students from the sciences, engineering and medicine. Experiences gained through the development, approval and delivery of these interdisciplinary educational programs will be discussed with specific emphasis on curricular requirements for inclusion of entrepreneurship content into courses in various fields of study.

William J. Dennis Jr.
Senior Research Fellow
NFIB Research Foundation
Washington, D.C.

Public policy creates the formal “rules of the game;” the formal rules of the game shape the business environment; the business environment influences the decisions business owners and managers make. The purpose of this session is to examine how policy alternatives influence the management behavior of small business decision-makers. Three panelists will examine different policy areas that have implications for smaller businesses, offer hypotheses regarding small business owner/manager response to selected changes, and suggest topics requiring additional research flowing from those hypotheses.