The number of students who wish to learn about entrepreneurship and actively engage in entrepreneurial activities – either by creating their own companies or by spurring innovation within a large organization – has grown greatly in recent years. Motivating engineers and scientists to become entrepreneurial has particular appeal in light of the abundance of technological knowledge that lurks hidden in today's research institutes and technology–based enterprises, waiting for commercialization.

However the expanding number of teaching programs fail to address the particular challenges and opportunities or starting up viable businesses based on science and engineering.