Tech Invent &Commercialization

Catalog description

Technology Invention; Commercialization; models innovation and entrepreneurial theory; practices from across a range of commercial sizes; from small startup companies to entrepreneurial 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, formal innovation and entrepreneurship competitions; including regional and national design contests, technology challenges, and business model competitions. Completion of this course will supply students with intellectual groundwork and practical experience in advancing inventive technological ideas towards commercialization and ultimately public benefit.