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Field guide 2

The Semester Ceiling

Why university entrepreneurship runs on a calendar ventures do not follow

Universities and innovation offices

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8 pages

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What it argues

The university is the only entrepreneurial support institution whose population is contractually guaranteed to leave. Almost everything difficult about the work follows from that one fact.

What you take away

  • Hold a founder record that outlives enrollment

  • Decouple the venture clock from the academic calendar

  • Make faculty participation legible as institutional output

  • Connect the licensing pipeline to the venture record

  • Carry the alumni horizon

  • Produce one number set for many audiences

  • Survive the annual reset

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