University of Calgary : Entrepreneurship and Innovation ENTI

Entrepreneurship and Innovation ENTI

ENTI 781 785 787 791 793 797 799

Instruction offered by members of the Haskayne School of Business.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Chairperson — S. Malach

Graduate Courses

Entrepreneurship and Innovation 781

Introduction to Entrepreneurship

An experience based course covering the prestart-up stage of business development through group projects and case studies designed to provide experience based skill development in creativity, idea generation, and feasibility analysis.
Course Hours: H(3-0)

Entrepreneurship and Innovation 783

Opportunity Development

A project and case based course designed to explore concepts of opportunity development.
Course Hours: H(3-1)

Entrepreneurship and Innovation 785

Venture Development

A project based course designed around the formation of business concepts in the formalization of a business plan.
Course Hours: H(3-0)

Entrepreneurship and Innovation 787

Applied Business Analysis

Approaches to advising new and existing ventures on effective venture development. Projects will involve the student conducting analysis of several ventures and providing advice to them.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Marketing 601 or consent of the Haskayne School of Business.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation 791

Technology Commercialization

The process of taking a technology product or service from development to the market, including market strategies, finding investors and potential early customers, the role of advisors, legal issues and the importance of the exit strategy for founders and early stage investors. Students will be required to complete a major project to write a feasibility study for a new technology or a case study of a successful technology venture.
Course Hours: H(3-0)

Entrepreneurship and Innovation 793

Technology and Innovation Management

The dynamics of innovation as the primary driving force within firms and modern industrialized economies. Potential concepts are: incremental versus radical innovations, market-pull versus technology-push theories, dominant designs, technological trajectories, key factors for successful innovation. The emergence of new technologies; the importance of national and regional innovation systems; the role of science, regulations and social pressure in innovations dynamics; knowledge management; and implications for firms in rapidly changing industrial settings may be discussed.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Also known as: (formerly Entrepreneurship and Innovation 797.03)

Entrepreneurship and Innovation 797

Advanced Seminar in Venture Development

797.02. Strategic Legal Planning for New Ventures
Course Hours: H(3S-0)
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the Haskayne School of Business.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation 799

Doctoral Seminars in Venture Development

799.01. Entrepreneurship: The State of the Art

799.02. Conceptual Models and Theories of New Venture Development

799.03. Special Topics in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

799.04. Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Course Hours: H(3S-0)

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