Students will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset and pursue opportunities through creativity, innovation, and disciplined execution. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Understand the key stages of bringing innovation to market, including performance evaluation, validation, market deployment, and user adoption — with applications to both technological and process innovations.
2. Develop core entrepreneurial skills essential for launching and scaling a small business, including leadership, resilience, and strategic decision-making.
3. Demonstrate a practical understanding of starting and managing a small business, covering business operations, resource management, and growth strategies.
4. Evaluate and validate business ideas for their potential success in both national and global markets. Topics include entrepreneurial thinking, opportunity recognition and creation, innovation roadmapping (from laboratory to market), industry and market research, intellectual property protection and management, business strategy, business models, and business plan development.
Students will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset and pursuit opportunities through creativity, innovation, and distributed execution. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Understand the key stages of bringing innovation to market, including performance evaluation, validation, market deployment, and user adoption — with applications to both technical and process innovations.
2. Develop core entrepreneurial skills essential for launching and scaling a small business, including leadership, resilience, and strategic decision-making.
3. Demonstrate a practical understanding of starting and managing a small business, covering business operations, resource management, and growth strategies.
4. Evaluate and validate business ideas for their potential success in both national and global markets. Topics include entrepreneurial thinking, opportunity recognition and creation, innovation roadmapping (from laboratories to market), industry and market research, intellectual property protection and management, business strategy, business models, and business plan development.
Apart from technological knowledge, employees of the 21st century are expected to have skills in areas such as problem-solving, creative thinking, written and oral communication, and teamwork. Therefore, there has been a growing demand from industry to educate science and engineering students in entrepreneurship. The curriculum is centered on three key aspects of entrepreneurship: 1) the individual, the skills, and attributes that make entrepreneurs successful, 2) the business ideas, how to generate them, where to look for them, and 3) how to ensure that business ideas are valid and have potential for success (e.g. innovative technology market deployment, meeting profit goals). Topics include entrepreneurial thinking; recognizing and creating opportunity; innovation technology roadmap (from laboratory to market deployment); industry and market research; innovation protection and management (patent search; how to draft the application); business strategy; business models and business plans; financial requirements and fundraising (investors search); start-up barriers and how to overcome them. This course will be taught entirely in English.
Apart from technical knowledge, employees of the 21st century are expected to have skills in areas such as problem-solving, creative thinking, written and oral communication, and teamwork. Therefore, there has been a growing demand from industry to educate science and engineering students in entrepreneurship. The curriculum is centered on three key aspects of entrepreneurship: 1) the individual, the skills, and attributes that make entrepreneurs successful, 2) the business ideas, how to generate them, where to look for them, and 3) how to ensure that business ideas are valid and have potential for success (e.g. innovative technology market deployment, meeting profit goals). Topics include entrepreneurial thinking; recognizing and creating opportunity; innovation technology roadmap (from laboratory to market deployment); industry and market research; innovation protection and management (patent search; how to draft the application); business strategy; business models and business plans; financial requirements and fundraising (investors search); start-up barriers and how to overcome them. This course will be taught entirely in English.
1. Lynch, M., Kamovich, U., Longva, K.K. and Steinert, M. (2019). Combining technology and entrepreneurial education through design thinking: Students' reflections on the learning process. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 164. ur1: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.06.015.
2. Alvarez, S.A. and Barney, J.B. (2007). Discovery and creation: alternative theories of entrepreneurial action. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 1 (1-2):11-26. url: https://online1ibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sej.4
3. NÖ lyigün (2015). What could Entrepreneurship do for Sustainable Development? A Corporate Social Responsibility-Based Approach. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 195 ( 2015 ) 1226 — 1231. url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S18770428l5037325
4. Byers, T., Kist, H., & Sutton, R. (1997). Characteristics of the Entrepreneur: Social Creatures, Not Solo Heroes. In R. C. Dorf(Ed.), The Handbook of Technology Management. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press LLC.
5. Whiting, B. (1988) Creativity and entrepreneurship: How do they relate? Journal of Creative Behavior, 22, 178-183.
6. Linton, J.D., Xu, W. Research on science and technological entrepreneurship education: What needs to happen next? The Journal of Technology Transfer volume 46, 393—406 (2021). https://doi.org/10.l007/sl096l-020-09786-6.
Textbooks:
1. Valliere, D. (2019). Entrepreneurial Thinking: Think Different! Edward Elgar Publishing; September 2019. ISBN: 9781788974608. url: https://www.ebooks.com/en us/book/209782500/entrepreneurialthinking/david-valliere/
2. Longenecker, J.G., Petty, W., Palich, L.E. and Hoy, F. (2020). Small Business Management: Launching and Growing Entrepreneurial Ventures (19th edition). Cengage Learning (2020). ISBN: 978-0-357- 03941-0
3. Bygrave, W.D., Corbett, A.C. and Zacharakis, A. (2019). Entrepreneurship 5th Edition. pp. 512. url: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Entrepreneurship%2C+5th+Edition-p-9781l19563099
4. John R. Bessant and Joe Tidd (2015)
1. Lynch, M., Kamovich, U., Longva, K.K. and Steinert, M. (2019). Combining technology and entrepreneurial education through design thinking: Students' reflections on the learning process. Technical Forecasting and Social Change 164. ur1: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.06.015.
2. Alvarez, S.A. and Barney, J.B. (2007). Discovery and creation: alternative theories of entrepreneurial action. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 1 (1-2):11-26. url: https://online1ibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sej.4
3. NÖ lyigün (2015). What could Entrepreneurship do for Sustainable Development? A Corporate Social Responsibility-Based Approach. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 195 ( 2015 ) 1226 — 1231. url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S18770428l5037325
4. Byers, T., Kist, H., & Sutton, R. (1997). Characteristics of the Entrepreneur: Social Creatures, Not Solo Heroes. In R. C. Dorf(Ed.), The Handbook of Technology Management. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press LLC.
5. Whiting, B. (1988) Creativity and entrepreneurship: How do they relate? Journal of Creative Behavior, 22, 178-183.
6. Linton, J.D., Xu, W. Research on science and technological entrepreneurial education: What needs to happen next? The Journal of Technology Transfer volume 46, 393—406 (2021). https://doi.org/10.l007/sl096l-020-09786-6.
Textbooks:
1. Valliere, D. (2019). Entrepreneurial Thinking: Think Different! Edward Elgar Publishing; September 2019. ISBN: 9781788974608. url: https://www.ebooks.com/en us/book/209782500/entrepreneurialthinking/david-valliere/
2. Longecker, J.G., Petty, W., Palich, L.E. and Hoy, F. (2020). Small Business Management: Launching and Growing Entrepreneurial Ventures (19th edition). Cengage Learning (2020). ISBN: 978-0-357- 03941-0
3. Bygrave, W.D., Corbett, A.C. and Zacharakis, A. (2019). Entrepreneurship 5th Edition. pp. 512. url: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Entrepreneurship%2C+5th+Edition-p-9781l19563099
4. John R. Bessant and Joe Tidd (2015)
| 評分項目 Grading Method | 配分比例 Grading percentage | 說明 Description |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance and ParticipationAttendance and Participation Attendance and Participation |
30 | If students miss more than 5 classes, they will not pass the course. |
| Midterm AssignmentMidterm Assignment Midterm Assignment |
30 | Group presentation of the business ideas (ppt) |
| Final AssignmentFinal Assignment Final Assignment |
40 | Group presentation of the full business plan (ppt) |
