Choosing between a student-run and professionally managed venture accelerator

• Autores: Gordon K. Adomdza
• Localización: Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, ISSN-e 1540-6520, Vol. 40, Nº. 4, 2016, págs. 943-956
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This case presents challenges facing a student-run venture accelerator at a major university in the United States. The student-run model has attracted much media attention for its uniqueness, but it has also raised questions about its sustainability. Signals from a new dean, not invested in the student model, are putting much pressure on the student-chief executive officer to change course—to tweak the student-run model and fight for its future or cave in to pressures to “professionalize” it and let students take a backseat in management. The case highlights challenges in entrepreneurial leadership of a student-run accelerator at the point of initial growth.