CDIO Syllabus 4.2.3 Technical Entrepreneurship

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CDIO Syllabus 4.2.3Technical Entrepreneurship

• Terrence E. Brown/Sören Östlund
• Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship
• KTH Industrial Economics and Management

www.cdio.org
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Technical Entrepreneurship - IRM

• The central focus of this IRM is the critical
  role of opportunity creation and recognition, and
  the entrepreneur, as the principal success
  factors in starting and growing a new venture.
• The main objective of this module is to provide
  the student with an understanding of the problems
  and challenges facing an entrepreneur in the
  process of creating a business.
• The key word is process.
• An additional objective is to convey to the
  student that entrepreneurship has a vital and
  important social function and career option.

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Modules

• This IRM proposes two learning/teaching
  activities, a short and a long option.
• The short option is a typically three day
  intensive activity, while the longer option is
  approximately one week.

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Teaching Learning Activity I

• Given that the time allotted to these modules is
  limited, it would be virtually impossible to
  transfer the required skills in that amount of
  time. However, what we can do is to inspire
  students, get them to begin to thing in a more
  customer-oriented/market fashion and give them
  plenty of resources that they can explore when
  they are ready.
• With this in mind, the students will be provided
  with reams and reams of resource material much of
  it online so they can access it anywhere and
  anytime. This is especially important because the
  instructors will not have, for the most part, the
  requisite knowledge base themselves.

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Teaching Learning Activity II

• Before each session, the students should be
  required to do the reading and prepare for a
  discussion. The reading will include both some
  literature, but will mostly be current articles
  and real life cases.
• The instructor should in advance arrange for a
  guest (a local entrepreneur) to help with the
  topic of the day. The instructor should act as a
  moderator/facilitator for the discussion that
  should take place between the guest and the
  students. The guest should not just lecture, but
  should be prepared to have an interactive
  dialogue with the students.
• A list of questions that the moderator should use
  to drive the discussion (for each class topic)
  will be provided.

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Content I

• The content is nearing finalization.
• It currently includes
• Several proposed schedules with moderator
  questions
• Source materials for the instructor and/or
  students (including papers and slides from
  experts in the field, etc.)
• A hypertexted Instructors Resource that includes
  recommended text books, tradebooks, and an
  Entrepreneur Library.

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Content II More Detail

• The source material for the instructor and
  student is grouped by topic area
• For example
• Opportunity Recognition
• New Production Development Marketing
• Venture Capital
• Leadership and Culture
• Business Plan
• Intellectual Property.
• There are financial templates provided as well as
  a voice-annotated step by step guide to creating
  a business plan.

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Content III More Detail

• The Entrepreneurs Library is an exhaustive and
  comprehensive hypertext document including
  hundreds of resources of use for the
  technology-based entrepreneurship instructor and
  student.

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When will it be ready?

• It is planed to be ready in less than one month