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|  | |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |\n\nWINTER 2016  \nNEWPATH: An Innovative Program to Nurture IT Entrepreneurs  \nNEELAM SOUNDARAJAN  \nSTEPHEN M. (MICHAEL) CAMP  \nDAVID LEE RAJIV RAMNATHAND  \nBRUCE W. WEIDE The Ohio State University Columbus, OH  \nABSTRACT  \nThe number of freshmen interested in entrepreneurship has grown dramatically in the last few years. In response, many universities have created entrepreneurship programs, including ones focused on engineering entrepreneurship. In this paper, we report on NEWPATH, an innovative NSF-supported program at Ohio State, designed to nurture students to become IT entrepreneurs. While the program builds on the experiences of other schools, it includes a number of novel components that are integrated together in an unusual manner to interlock and complement each other. The result is an ecosystem that is exceptionally effective in achieving its key goal of helping students succeed as IT entrepreneurs. Indeed, between the 25 or so students who are active in NEWPATH, three or four enterprises have been launched and have acquired or are close to acquiring VC/angel funding; a couple of others were launched with seed-funding before the involved students decided their business model was not as viable as they thought and suspended work. The students involved range from sophomores through seniors/recent graduates.  \nKey Words: IT entrepreneurship, Collaborative learning, Community of Inquiry  \nINTRODUCTION  \nIt is a long held truism that entrepreneurship is the engine that drives the American economy. This is even more relevant today, given the current and recent economic developments and the need  \nWINTER 2016 1  \nADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION  \nNEWPATH: An Innovative Program to Nurture IT Entrepreneurs  \nfor even large corporations to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset in order to be able to react nimbly to market developments. Engineering entrepreneurship, based on effective use of the numerous recent developments in science and technology, is especially important to ensuring a vibrant national economy. Equally, it can prove extremely rewarding to the individual entrepreneur who has the knowledge to see the potential applications of such developments and the entrepreneurial skills to realize the potential in an actual product at the right time and in the right market. Thus while many previously very successful companies have, in the last several years, gone bankrupt and, indeed, whole economies have suffered considerable damage, a number of individual entrepreneurs and teams of entrepreneurs have launched remarkably successful new businesses that have not only rewarded them very richly in financial terms but also enabled these individuals to leave their mark on society and culture.  \nNot surprisingly, the number of engineering freshmen interested in entrepreneurship has grown dramatically in the last several years (see, e. g.,[10, 11]) . In response, many universities have created entrepreneurship programs, including ones focused on engineering entrepreneurship (see, e.g., [1, 2, 6, 18, 19, 21, 30] and others) . Information technology (IT) has been key, indeed, it has either been the primary technology underlying or the enabling factor in many of the most successful enterprises of the last decade or two. In this paper, we report on NEWPATH, an innovative program supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), at Ohio State, designed to nurture students to become IT entrepreneurs. While some components of NEWPATH are based on the experiences of other programs, our focus is on IT; not just on the potential products and services that effectively exploit IT but also on the particular entrepreneurial considerations, such as market research, that IT enables us to address in new and extremely effective ways. 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