TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP

This course is designed for students interested in learning about the fundamental issues related to starting and managing technology-based new ventures. The course encourages students to consider how technology-based solutions can solve economic and socially oriented problems. The course prepares students for more intensive entrepreneurship courses, such as Venture Creation and Entrepreneurial Growth Strategies, which focus on testing, developing, and growing new businesses.

Why should you take this course? - You are interested in becoming an inventing entrepreneur by starting a technology-based company as someone without a business background or working with an inventing entrepreneur as someone without a science background. - You are interested in a career that involves technology entrepreneurship, such as working for a start-up, venture capital firm, economic development agency, or technology transfer office.

Teaching Philosophy In this course, you will “learn by doing”. You will learn from other entrepreneurs by discussing cases and listening to their presentations. You will learn on your own by developing your personal, technology “dream project”. This is a time-intensive course that requires considerable commitment and passion on your part. We will employ a number of cooperative-learning techniques that require each student to play an active role. Given the range of topics we will encounter in the course, at times, we may not find the right answers, or all the answers. What is important, however, is the process you employ to learn new concepts and to analyze issues critically.