New Venture Design – Interdisciplinary Capstone Projects at UBC
Bibliographic record
Abstract
New Venture Design is an interdisciplinary project course across Engineering and Business at UBC,whose primary goal is to provide students of both faculties with knowledge and practical experience related to the formation of an entrepreneurial venture based on the development of a new product or process. Working in teams of 6 students (3 engineering students and 3 business students), the end-goal in the course is to produce a viable product prototype (the primary responsibility of the engineering students) and the necessary business plan (the primary responsibility of the business students) to ensure its success in the marketplace. This course is a combination of both lecture instruction (on creativity, business plans, patents, prototyping, fabrication, funding, tax credits, etc.) and dedicated lab-time in which student teams will advance their new venture concept toward market introduction. The teams enter many business plans competitions in the province, across North America (and beyond). Some teams go much further and file provisional patents, or incorporate a company. Starting in 2003, the course has now run for 8 years; several of the project teams have actually started a company based on their idea, or have created other new ventures. This paper summarizes the course, its motivation, details the current framework and syllabus, and reflects on lessons learned.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".