73412 - Technology Entrepreneurship M

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Docente: Rosa Grimaldi
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ING-IND/35
  • Language: English

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', Third Edition, Pearson Education.

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

Teaching methods

Lectures, case discussions, speeches by entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. –Lecture: 25 hours –Case preparation and discussion: 20 hours –Corporate project: 15 hours

Assessment methods

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

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

-Project work up to 40%

-The remaining 30% comes from the evaluation of cases discussed along the entire course

Teaching tools

Traditional lectures, case discussion and speech by influent entrepreneurs

Office hours

See the website of Rosa Grimaldi

SDGs

Industry, innovation and infrastructure Responsible consumption and production

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.