Raising I&E Awareness
- Inspirational cases of innovation and entrepreneurship
- Setting personal ambition, targets and plan
- Basic business analysis
- Impact of innovation and entrepreneurship
Opportunity Recognition, excluding the Raising I&E Awareness module
- Entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and innovation
- Technology transfer
- Market analysis
- Industry dynamics
- Applying technology
- Opportunity recognition
- Business idea
- IPR
Raising I&E Awareness (introductory module, optional if already taken elsewhere)
- The ability to differentiate different perspectives on academic entrepreneurship.
- The ability to see the possibilities connected to high-technology entrepreneurship (certain thematic areas).
- Raise awareness of the exploitation potential of their research.
- The ability to define entrepreneurship in ICT context.
- The ability to apply the basic business concepts.
- The ability to define the business environment (local vs. global industry).
- The ability to differentiate the importance and different roles that new ventures and business activities play in the national economy.
- The ability to recognize recent business trends in ICT and business markets in general and in their discipline in detail.
- To improve entrepreneurial spirit and entrepreneurial mind-set.
Opportunity Recognition, excluding the Raising I&E Awareness module
- Enhanced awareness and ability to exploit the potential of their research.
- Obtaining a holistic understanding about the business development process at early stage.
- Gaining the ability to explain the business functions in a new venture and in an existing company and their connections to the strategy.
- Gaining the ability to apply industry specific knowledge.
- Knowledge regarding the new product/service development stages and processes.
- How to recognize business opportunities and exploit them.
- How to be able to evaluate the business opportunities in the field of high technology.
- How to be able to conduct a market assessment (including market demand, customer expectations, and customer value).
- To obtain the necessary pre-business planning skills (including IPR and business modeling).
- To show more entrepreneurial skills (presentation skills, negotiation skills, team work coordination).
- How to be able to differentiate and develop the knowledge and technology transfer systems in the academic and industrial setting (including open innovation and/or respective current paradigms).