CHEE 302 Technical Entrepreneurship Units: 3.50
This course will help learners from all disciplines develop an entrepreneurial mindset capable of turning problems into opportunities. Learners will identify sources, rates, and directions of technological change, and begin to understand the role and challenges of technological innovation across sectors, countries, and organizations. Learners will investigate the relationships between innovation and industrial dynamics, and seek to understand the fundamental forces that drive the science and technology industries' evolution and industry life cycles. In the process, learners will explore frameworks and tools used to analyze new technology adoption, predict technology diffusion patterns, and assess the strategic value of technological innovation.
NOTE: Offered only at the Bader College, Herstmonceux, in the fall term.
K3.5(Lec: Yes, Lab: No, Tut: No)
NOTE: Offered only at the Bader College, Herstmonceux, in the fall term.
K3.5(Lec: Yes, Lab: No, Tut: No)
Offering Term: FW
CEAB Units:
Mathematics 0
Natural Sciences 0
Complementary Studies 42
Engineering Science 0
Engineering Design 0
Offering Faculty: Smith Engineering
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe how technical innovation arises from advances in knowledge and the motivation of necessity or opportunity.
- Identify problems and generate ideas using design and systems thinking tools.
- Identify how to take an innovation to commercialization using a structured design process, including appropriate strategies for protecting the strategic advantage of intellectual property.
- Identifying time, risk, and capital scales for a technological innovation.
- Communicate the value of technical innovation to stakeholders and develop social acceptance to operate for ventures.
- Design business models using the business model canvas framework.