Tech Invent &Commercialization

Catalog description

This course models innovation and entrepreneurial theory and practices from across a range of commercial size-scales, from small startup companies to intrapreneurial units within large, established companies. The twin poles of theory and practice are balanced through classroom lectures and experiential training. Weekly lectures furnish students with effective and portable theoretical frameworks for identifying, selecting and executing opportunities for technological innovations in healthcare, energy, water and the environment. In the experiential training, students will apply their classroom learning to targeted innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities within these sectors. Completion of this course will supply students with intellectual groundwork and practical experience in advancing inventive technological ideas towards commercialization and ultimately public benefit.