88435 - Technology Entrepreneurship

Learning outcomes

Raise awareness on entrepreneurship. 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: the sources

c) Evaluation of a business idea: feasibility analysis

d) The business plan

d) The implementation of new business ideas: financing, managing intellectual property rights, strategy for growth, changes in business models, marketing issues.

e) Corporate entrepreneurship: organizational conditions

f) Supporting entrepreneurship: the role of universities, policies, institutions and local context.

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 preparation and discussion: 15 hours

Design Thinking Lab: 20 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:

-The mark of a final exam - up to 30%

-Project work (design thinking lab) 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