Sustainable Technology Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers

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Sustainable Technology Entrepreneurship for
Scientists and Engineers

• Greg Graff, College of Agricultural Sciences
• Anthony Marchese, College of Engineering
• Rick Turley, College of Business

Week 1 innovation, entrepreneurship, and
economic development
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The Team

• Rick Turley, College of Business
• Greg Graff, College of Agricultural Sciences
• Anthony Marchese, College of Engineering
• Rick Greg Anthony

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Sustainable Technology Entrepreneurship for
Scientists and Engineers

• What is this about?

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Sustainable Technology Entrepreneurship for
Scientists and Engineers

• At the core is entrepreneurship
• What is entrepreneurship?
• Who is an entrepreneur?
• When is entrepreneurship (private sector action)
  to be preferred to government policy or charity
  (public sector action)?
• The role of the Land Grant university (i.e. where
  we all sit and work) in stimulating
  entrepreneurship.

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Sustainable Technology Entrepreneurship for
Scientists and Engineers

• Refining the focus to technology
  entrepreneurship.
• Why this focus on technology?
• What is technology?
• How is it different than a transactional,
  financial, or service entrepreneurship?
• scalability and impact.
• productivity,
• efficiency,
• appropriateness,
• design.

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Sustainable Technology Entrepreneurship for
Scientists and Engineers

• We further focus on sustainable.
• What is sustainability?
• Why is it an important guiding principle for new
  enterprise?
• Two dimensions of interest
• poverty (BOP or Base of the Pyramid) and
• environment.
• See article by Nidumolu, Prahalad, and
  Rangaswami
• Why Sustainability Is Now the Key Driver of
  Innovation.

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Sustainable Technology Entrepreneurship for
Scientists and Engineers

• Why is this course for Scientists and
  Engineers?
• How does this make the course unique (compared to
  business courses for typical MBA or even GSSE)?
• Explanation of the composition of the class and
  the split between Ag and Engineering.

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Sustainable Technology Entrepreneurship for
Scientists and Engineers

• The syllabus
• The team project

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Who are you?

• Name, rank and serial number
• major
• Graduate research topic(s)
• Why did you decide to enroll in this course?
• What do you hope to get out of the experience