C03 - About the Collegiate Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of Northeast Ohio

Q.1

The NE Ohio Collegiate Ecosystem includes a number of networks that operate to help students experience entrepreneurship. Which of the following networks did Ms. Hoover cite in her talk?

The JumpStart Higher Education Collaboration Council and the Entrepreneurship Education Consortium
The Northeast Ohio Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program and the Blackstone LaunchPad program.
The Council of Smaller Enterprises and the Ohio Board of Regents
Both a and b above are networks that were cited.

Q.2

What is the purpose of the JumpStart Higher Education Council as stated by the speaker?

To connect the colleges and universities of Northeast Ohio to the larger Northeast Ohio Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and give the colleges and universities access to the resources that Jump Start has available.
To develop a common entrepreneurship curriculum for the colleges and universities of Northeast Ohio.
To run a Northeast Ohio business plan competition that only Northeast Ohio college students can enter.
To provide a common public relations platform for the colleges and universities of Northeast Ohio.

Q.3

Oberlin College, Hiram College, Baldwin Wallace University, Lake Erie College and The College of Wooster are five NE Ohio liberal arts schools that are part of the NE Ohio Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program. What did Ms. Hoover describe as one of the purposes of the program?

To fund the construction of entrepreneurship buildings on each campus.
To establish an endowed entrepreneurship program on each campus.
To make entrepreneurship an accessible program for all students on campus regardless of what they are studying.
To help students in each college’s business schools to develop entrepreneurship courses for the community.

Q.4

The Blackstone Launchpad program is a program on the campus’s of Baldwin Wallace University, Case Western Reserve University, Kent State University and Lorain County Community College. It helps students experience entrepreneurship by providing coaching and mentoring to help students start up businesses. Where did the speaker indicate that the Blackstone Launchpad is located on the Kent State campus?

The LaunchPad office is inside Kent State’s business college.
The LaunchPad is a virtual office on Kent’s website.
The LaunchPad is located right in the middle of the first floor of Kent State’s students center.
The LaunchPad is a special building in downtown Kent.

Q.5

The Entrepreneurship Education Consortium includes nine NE Ohio colleges and universities. What did Ms. Hoover indicate that it offers to students?

It helps individual students write business plans to start up companies.
It offers a full week summer immersion program for students from the participating schools to come together as part of a team representing their university to develop a potential start up business.
It offers students an opportunity to study entrepreneurship at overseas universities.
It offers students a chance to study an online course in entrepreneurship.