73412 - Technology Entrepreneurship M

Learning outcomes

Raise awareness on entrepreneurial opportunities

Help students to develop the ability to identify and evaluate technology opportunities with commercial exploitation potential.

Provide competencies to organize entrepreneurial action and implement them in the form of either new independent ventures or generation of new value within existing firms.

Course contents

a) Entrepreneurship: introduction

b) Identifying new business ideas

c) Analysis of the external environment

d) Organizational dimensions supporting corporate entrepreneurship;

e) Individual traits of successful entrepreneurs;

f) Entrepreneurial ecosystems;

g) Supporting entrepreneurship: the role of universities, policies, institutions and local context;

h) Entrepreneurial ideas development Lab 'Tech2Market'

Readings/Bibliography

Barringer, B.R. and Ireland, R.D. 'Entrepreneurship: successfully launching new ventures', Pearson Education.

Copies of the book are available at the library of the School of Engineering in Via Terracini

Teaching methods

Lectures, case and paper discussions, design thinking lab

Lecture: 25 hours

Case and paper discussion with assignments: 10 hours

Tech2Market Lab: 25 hours

Assessment methods

It is mandatory to attend classes given the final evaluation of this course is based on case discussions and the design thinking lab. Specifically the final mark will take into account:

- Individual final exam - up to 30%

- Project work (Tech2Market) up to 50%

-The remaining 20% comes from the evaluation of cases and papers discussed along the entire course

Teaching tools

Lectures, case discussion, Business Plan laborator, seminars 

Office hours

See the website of Rosa Grimaldi