The Idea to Product® program: An educational model uniting emerging technologies, student leadership and societal applications

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-104

  Evans, R S ^a   Parks, Jennifer ^a   Nichols, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; I2P; Idea to Product; Innovation; International; Technology commercialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847723003     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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