MGMT 5233 - Entrepreneurship and Corporate Venturing

Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

This course is based on the premise that new ventures are a continuous source of radical or disruptive innovations in the United States. Technology entrepreneurship, whether in a start-up or established company, involves identifying high-growth potential, technology intensive commercial opportunities, acquiring human and financial resources and navigating uncertainty. This course offers students two entrepreneurial perspectives: new firm and intrapreneurship (e.g., corporate venturing). From the new-firm perspective, students will examine how to identify and evaluate technological opportunities, form new ventures and manage them. From the corporate venturing perspective, students will learn opportunity and feasibility analyses, how to structure the new venture and manage high-growth projects. The goal of this course is to provide students with the tools to develop a successful business plan, build a start-up team, finance the venture and lead the process of turning the opportunity into a reality.