Bachelor
2021/2022
Technological Entrepreneurship
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Elective course (Business Administration)
Area of studies:
Management
Delivered by:
Department of Strategic and International Management
Where:
Graduate School of Business
When:
4 year, 3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Svetlana Y. Lyapina
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
30
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The goal of the course is to form students’ knowledge and understanding specificity of technological entrepreneurship as a specific activity at new markets and to develop skills in justifying and making decisions in commercialization of technological innovations at all stages of their life cycle: from generating an idea to optimizing a financial model of innovative projects and managing entrepreneurial risks. As a result of mastering the discipline, students master the conceptual and theoretical apparatus in technological entrepreneurship, acquire the skills and abilities to apply methods and tools for managing innovative technological projects and new businesses. The discipline contains practical and instrumental components (including case studies) that allow you to move from idea to business idea and form a business model of a new technology business, conduct market research for new products in the early stages of the life cycle and develop an approach to promoting new products on the market and branding, develop an approach to management an innovative project and substantiate the method and conditions for attracting investments in the implementation of technological innovation.
Learning Objectives
- The main purpose of the Course is to develop competencies in Technological Entrepreneurship, allowing to sharp an approach to the commercialization of intellectual activity results, effectively using available resources, as well as forming the investment attractiveness and strategic competitiveness of business based on technological innovations. Basic tasks: 1. Forming knowledge about the essence and characteristics of technological entrepreneurship as a special type of activity, 2. Developing competencies associated with an adequate choice of technological solutions for their subsequent commercialization in various forms of technological entrepreneurship, 3. Mastering the toolkit for developing entrepreneurial solutions for the development of new products / services and technologies, creating a high-tech new business, forming a strategy for its development, and ensuring strategic competitiveness Elaborating ideas about the possibilities of supporting technological entrepreneurship and infrastructure components of innovation
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Defines the main (basic) functions of a technology entrepreneur in innovative projects
- To analyse impact of technology innovations on business
- To be able to identify key success factors of technology innovations
- To know basic forms and types of Technology Entrepreneurship
- To know how to justify the choice of technology entrepreneurship model: Technology Push vs Market Pull
- To know the definition and basuc types of innovations
Course Contents
- Introduction to Technology Entrepreneurship
- Commercialization and Intellectual property
- External environment of new technological business
- Internal environment of new technological business
- Growth strategies for tech startups
- Institutional support of new hi-tech business
- Startups’ Economics
Interim Assessment
- 2021/2022 3rd module0.3 * Tests + 0.4 * Individual Writing Work + 0.3 * Case Study
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Thomas N. Duening, Robert A. Hisrich, & Michael A. Lechter. (2020). Technology Entrepreneurship : Taking Innovation to the Marketplace. Academic Press.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Blackwell, E. (1998). How to Prepare a Business Plan : Planning for Successful Start-up and Expansion: Vol. 3rd ed. Kogan Page.
- Burns, P. (2001). Entrepreneurship and Small Business. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
- S. Jansen, & Roderick van Cann. (2013). Software Business Start-up Memories : Key Decisions in Success Stories. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Steve Blank, & Bob Dorf. (2020). The Startup Owner’s Manual : The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Wiley.