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Record W4410485198 · doi:10.1080/0194262x.2025.2503943

Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Library Support in University Campus Startup Competitions

2025· article· en· W4410485198 on OpenAlexaffabout
Amanda Wheatley, Helen Power

Bibliographic record

VenueScience & Technology Libraries · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicEntrepreneurship Studies and Influences
Canadian institutionsUniversity of SaskatchewanMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEntrepreneurshipLibrary scienceEngineeringEngineering managementBusinessManagementComputer scienceEconomics

Abstract

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Startup competitions are the first opportunity that undergraduate students have to launch their innovative ideas. However, market-research skills are not consistently covered in engineering programs. This study looked at the top engineering programs in Canada and the US and examined the member composition of their winning startups for engineers and compared this to their library resources. Of the 22 universities included, IBISWorld (20), Statista (16), and Mergent (16) were the most popular databases. Ten had an entrepreneurship librarian and 16 had an entrepreneurship library guide. There was no correlation between available resources and number of engineering-related winning startup teams.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.013
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.044

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.013
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0060.001
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.182
Teacher spread0.177 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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