LehighWeek Volume 01, Issue 29

              MARIE C. BOLTZ
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
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L.INDERMAN    LI3RARY
NO.030
INSIDE QUOTES:
* ^There's nothing ho-hum
about a garage."
—Transportation shop foreman
Phil Bloom
On The Go, Page
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^The construction industry
needs to practice preventive
medicine to halt the rapid
decay of our infrastructure.
—ATLSS director John Fisher      -   ^    _
Perspective on ATLSS, Pages    ■ Wk' *•
* ^Stamps are likened to small
windows on the world,
illuminating many aspects
of culture."
—1948 graduate Walter Creitz
Philatelies, Page
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^■^ Lehigh University, ^^       A       "TT"   Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
LehighWeek
Issue Twentynine
July 21,1988
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PHOTOGRAPH by PAM LOTT
On To The Olympics?
One of the few to experience human-powered flight, alumnus Frank O
Scioscia hopes to fly high for the U.S. Cycling Team. His story is on Page O
Lehigh Links 'Start-lips'
To Big-Company Support
By William Johnson
Lehigh University Writer's Group
Entrepreneurs wish they had the legal, marketing, patent
information, accounting and other in-house services of a
large corporation. On the other hand, corporate representatives long for the entrepreneur's freedom to innovate in an
unstructured atmosphere with no distractions.
Lehigh University has found a way to help entrepreneurs
in eastern Pennsylvania get the big-company support they
need, while exposing corporate managers to entrepreneurial
approaches.
It's called the Entrepreneur's RoundtabJe. It is designed
to address "start-up" and "early-growth" problems encountered by young, technology-based firms by promoting
detailed and highly focused discussions of these problems
among qualified and experienced "resource people," most of
whom come from large corporations.
"Entrepreneurs often feel— and in fact are— all alone
against the world," says Lehigh Professor Alden Bean. "But
we have been able to link them with resource people who
have been surprisingly willing to discuss problems faced by
these small, technologically oriented new businesses."
Bean is director of Lehigh's Center for Innovation
Management Studies (CIMS), which is devoted to research
on the technological innovation process. Bean explains that
an entrepreneur first is referred to the roundtable by the
Lehigh-based North East Tier Ben Franklin Partnership
Program, which helps entrepreneurs in the region with
technical and business issues.
A core group of roundtable advisers listens to an
entrepreneur's problem and then looks for corporate
resource people who would be able to address the problem.
The entrepreneurial firm, the Lehigh core group and the
resource people receive a full description of the problem and
roundtable agenda in advance so they can be prepared for
the meeting. "Ground rules" for the meeting are explained
to protect against disclosure of sensitive information.
Usually the roundtable is devoted to one entrepreneur's
problem, but several times group meetings have been held to
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