The Mission of the USASBE Technology and Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Interest Group is to provide a forum for the development of scholarly insights, pedagogical and curricular advances, and best practices in outreach efforts related to technology entrepreneurship. Technology entrepreneurship is defined as the entire process of technology-based enterprise creation from ideation and invention through technology transfer and commercialization to growth of high tech firms. Technology entrepreneurship will encompass all areas of high technology that include, and are not limited to, information technology, nanotechnology, life sciences technology, and environmental technology.

Both students and faculty at universities and colleges conduct a substantial amount of research in multiple disciplines with the goal of developing breakthrough technologies that have the potential to change and improve the world through the creation of new enterprises. Our research agenda will focus on 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.

Leadership of the Group is elected annually by the Group membership; questions relative to Group mission, membership; annual work program and objectives should be directed to one of the following members of the leadership team:

Group Chair Nola Miyasaki Oklahoma State University 101 Business Building Stillwater OK 74078 Tel: 405-744-9325 Email: nola.miyasaki@okstate.edu

A member of USASBE in good standing, that has professional interest in the specific field of the Group and wishes to pursue expansion and promotion of the field and personal advancement through knowledge exchange and participation in the mission of the Group, is eligible for membership.

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Annually as an element of the Association’s strategic planning process, the Group develops a work plan that outlines goals and objectives for the program year.  Outlined below are annual goals and objectives adopted by the Group:

1. Create Online Forums, Webinars and List Serves to share best practices in technology entrepreneurship
2. Offer a calendar of regional events and conferences that are of common interest to the group to facilitate year round networking and opportunities for learning
3. Other activities that further the overarching goals of the Technology Entrepreneurship Interest Group:
   • Developing and sharing the best practices of successful educational models that intersect entrepreneurship and innovation/technology development through curricula, coursework, applied activities, mentoring, innovation labs, incubators, or wherever successes can be studied and measured.
   • Identifying strategies for breaking down traditional barriers between academic departments and disciplines in order to realize the power of innovation and invention that can result from diverse orientations and frames of reference.
   • Understanding the factors of success that lead some universities, research labs, and private companies to be successful in technology creation and transfer.
   • Sharing knowledge in the areas of global intellectual property protection, financing strategies, university based venture pools, and private sector funding vehicles such as angel investors and venture capital firms.
   • Benchmarking community-based organizational processes that leverage the power of innovation and technology transfer to further the economic development of a region.