1. Inceptum
Entrepreneurial Liberal Arts Education

2. Problem: Department Isolation
Department
of Engineering
Managerial
Studies
Owen
Graduate

3. Solution

4. Case Study:
Stanford University

5. Opportunity
$2.7 Trillion
Administrative
Support
Connection to
Industry
Risk-taking
Culture

6. Implementation
Entrepreneurial
Curriculum
Managerial
Studies
Department
of
Engineering
Owen
Graduate

7. The Users
Daniel Aronowitz Chauncey Scales

8. Educational Team
David Berezov John Bers Joe Rando
Michael Burcham Cherrie Clark Germain Böer

9. Organizational Partnerships

10. Potential Major Size
24 Students

11. Why Now?
“there are no technology hubs without first rate
universities…if you want to make a Silicon Valley,
you not only need a university, but one of the top
handful in the world.”
Paul Graham, Cofounder of Y Combinator

12. Inceptum
Contact: Chauncey Scales, chauncey.t.scales@vanderbilt.edu

13. Appendix

14. Snapshots of Stanford Websites

15. MIT Benchmarks
 University senior management that actively promote a clear and prominent
E&I agenda with students, staff, and the regional community.
 University departments that promote an academic culture that acknowledges,
supports and rewards E&I within a cross-disciplinary context.
 University-led E&I activity with distributed responsibility across multiple
university agencies.
 Student-led E&I activity within a cohesive, inventive, bold and well-
connected student-led entrepreneurial community.
 External (to the university) E&I community with relationships to the university
built on mutual benefits, and with a platform for players to play a visible and
influential role in university life.

16. Survey of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

17. Stanford Alumni Innovation Survey

18. Sources:
 http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_EntrepreneurialEcosystems_Report_20
13.pdf
 http://www.kauffmanfellows.org/journal_posts/universities-and-
entrepreneurial-ecosystems-stanford-silicon-valley-success/
 https://engineering.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Stanford_Alumni_Innova
tion_Survey_Report_102412_1.pdf
 http://web.mit.edu/sktech/sktech-program/entrepreneurship-
innovation/benchmark.html