Start-Up for Life Education for Entrepreneurship as a

Start-Up for Life. Education for Entrepreneurship as a key for Social Mobility among marginalized populations. The Israeli Case-Study Dr. Miri Yemini miriye@sce. ac. il

The world is changing

Cumulative Adoption Patterns (Examples for Several Durables)

Passing information is not enough any more Wikipedia 15, 000 Articles Encyclopedia 65, 000 Articles

From keeping to sharing. . . 32 Million Users 100 Million User 400 Million Users

Workplace Expectations – What the employers need? • • • Creativity Communication skills A willingness to experiment The ability to work on team Passion and leadership

“…if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow” - John Dewey

On the other hand The GAP is widening

So, what is the right thing to do?

Israel at glance

R&D Personnel per million capita

Patent applications per million capita

SCE

SCE – Who are we?

Engineering Departments • • • Electrical & Electronics Engineering Industrial Engineering & Management Software Engineering Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering

SCE students - gender

SCE students - demography

SCE students - geography

SCE – who are we? • 4000 students, 6 Engineering departments • 15 years old • Public college • Mission: to widen the access for HE in Engineering in geographical and socio-economic periphery

SCE – the same old questions? • How? • What? • Why?

What is the right word for that?

Col t n E Next Generation Students Industry ge n re p re ip sh r u e Community Colle lege College

Engineer - Entrepreneur Go no Go Mentoring Is it good? Novel Idea 2 courses

Start Point Idea only Stage Student/Team Approaches the Entrepreneurship Centre Initial Diagnosis External Business Advisor (45 min interview) No Commercial Potential or more thinking required Possible Commercial Potential (1) Intellectual Property Expert (2) Financial Advisor (3) Technological Expert (4) Strategic Advisor No Potential or more thinking required Engineer - Entrepreneur If all 4 experts agree on the potential pre-seed Pre-Business Incubator New Venture Creation

Why Entrepreneurship at SCE? • Geographical Periphery • Socially Excluded Populations • The knowledge-competency gap

Three success actors:

(1) Initial Funding Government P. Investors College Angels

(2) Intellectual Property

(3) It is all about the people Ofer Ben Haim Noam Wekser Senior Executive, Verint Senior Executive, Oracle Yossi Moldavsky CEO, Moldavsky Group Amir Raveh CEO, MG Equity Partners

SCE first in Iphone Application

Money…

Students’ evaluation of the ‘Engineer. Entrepreneur’ program (2008 -2009). Average grade (1 -6) % of participation ‘Engineer-Entrepreneur’ Program 5. 33 62. 5 Total College Average 4. 54 45. 6

What do Students say? It’s the first time, during my all degree, I wake up with joy at 8 a. m. Great course, Great teacher A+++++++ One the most interesting and helpful courses of the entire degree the teacher was helpful and kind Interesting course but requires lots of investment I learned many things and expanded my knowledge not only in the professional field

What do Students say? Very interesting and "unusual" program , especially for college. Improves understanding of modern market and rises self esteem of young innovators Without you I was an idea with no title. Thanks A very important program. Gives the students many tools for the real life Great Teacher, gives us tools for life

Entrepreneurial Intentions of students participating in the Engineer. Entrepreneur Program Change in Entrepreneurial Intentions (%) Male +34 Female +55

Entrepreneurial College

Connecting up to Big Ideas • Work experience • Social mobility • Students involvement • ROI

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EFA

What next? LEADER Leading Women to Engineering – to enhance equal and transparent access to higher education • • • Develop an international holistic program to inspire, engage and encourage female students to study engineering and choose the engineering profession as a career. Establish a program of regularly scheduled networking and mentoring meetings (students, faculty, and industry) that include all aspects of career planning. Develop and implement an academic international and multidisciplinary course "Management in a Man’s World" in all participating PC institutions. Develop and implement a voluntary program for mentoring of 9 th grade high school girls by female engineering students to change their perception of the Engineering profession, historically dominated by males. Establish a website portal for the Leader program to facilitate participating PC and EU institutions in adopting, sustaining and further disseminating the project. Develop and implement a marketing campaign to increase awareness and encourage and support more women in applying for studies in Engineering.

Leading Women to Engineering – to enhance equal and transparent access to higher education MMU EMUNI ADVANCIA TUD CNR University of Limerick Aalto University SCE TAU HIT Shenkar OBC SEEEI Technion UNSA University of Zenica University of Banja Luka University of Prishtina University of Montenegro UK Slovenia France Germany Italy Ireland Finland Israel Israel Bosnia Kosova Montenegro

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Start-Up for Life. Education for Entrepreneurship as a key for Social Mobility among marginalized populations. The Israeli Case-Study Dr. Miri Yemini miriye@sce. ac. il