Technology Based Social Entrepreneurship

Catalog description

The course describes the needs and techniques for creatively recognizing and developing new ventures with real social value that contribute to the society at large and support long-term economic growth and sustainability. This course will focus on creating social value through the use of high technology that can have the maximum benefit to the recognized social problem. What the course offers? The course offers to take you step-by-step through the entire process of recognizing and starting a new social venture. It trains you in community impact studies and needs assessment analyses that help develop social value based ideas. How the course is designed to facilitate your learning? The course like entrepreneurship is all about action. While interactive lectures and audio and video presentation will accompany the learning process in every class, the primary focus will be on case study analyses, and community study impact exercises applied to real world social venture.