The impact of DT in Health, Sustainability, the Future of Work and the future of workplace Diversity. We will also discuss how upcoming, disruptive IT approaches may lead to future transformations.
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Module 1 – Entrepreneurship in the Platform economy: Exploiting Network Effects.
How did Google, Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba, and Tencent come to dominate the economy so quickly? How can entrepreneurs compete with them and build their own successful platform businesses? Digital platforms have completely upended traditional strategic analysis tools. This course considers a wide variety of platforms, investigating their network dynamics, business models, scaling and regulatory challenges,…
Module 2 – Science and Technology Based Entrepreneurship: Exploiting Research Breakthroughs.
How can a brilliant scientist take his or her breakthroughs and start a firm that changes the world? How can policy makers translate their academic and government research into larger benefits for their people and the economy? Science and basic research generate great numbers of potentially economy-changing breakthroughs, yet very few get out of the…
Module 3 – Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship: Exploiting your Intellectual Capital.
When are patents essential to a successful entrepreneurial venture? How can you build and defend your intellectual capital? While patents are not always necessary (or even helpful) to entrepreneurship, they are sometimes indispensable to competition and funding. This course outlines how to analyze your intellectual property, understand its value and vulnerabilities, identify competitors and collaborators,…
Module 4 – Silicon Valley: What makes the World’s most Entrepreneurial Region Tick?
How did Silicon Valley go from fruit orchards to the world’s dominant technology region in 30 years? How can policy makers foster entrepreneurship in their own regions? This course briefly discusses the birth of Silicon Valley and then elicits the most important characteristics that led to its success. Failed policies are dissected in order to…
Module 5 – Identifying Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Finding and Defining a User Need.
How can an entrepreneur identify a badly unmet need in the economy? How can s/he then assemble the resources to satisfy that need and build a successful and sustainable advantage? Many entrepreneurial efforts fail due to a lack of marketing savvy and customer understanding. This course takes a marketing perspective and explores examples of successful…
Module 6 – An Introduction and Exploration of Whether you Should Become an Entrepreneur.
What is entrepreneurship? Should you become an entrepreneur? This course focuses on the individual who is considering starting their own firm. It explores many examples of entrepreneurial paths and highlights some of the choices that entrepreneurs face, including how to minimize personal and professional risk, who to found with and who to hire, what sorts…
Module 7 – Entrepreneurship within and Outside of the Established Firm.
How can established firms maintain an entrepreneurial culture? How can they benefit from the entrepreneurial ideas of their employees? Large firms often fail to take full advantage of their internal talent, for fear that employees will leave and ultimately compete with them. This course discusses how to create and foster entrepreneurial efforts within the firm,…