Focuses on evolving a product from proof-of-concept to beta prototype: Includes team building, project planning, budgeting, resource planning; models for scaling, tolerancing and reliability, patents, business planning.
Undergraduate students innovate, implement, and communicate designs that are practical, successful, elegant, interactive, robust, and holistic. Focus on project scope, and balancing real-world constraints against the limitations of technology and human cognition. Provides instruction in a computer markup language.
Subject helps medical and graduate students to develop an understanding of the limitations of current medical technology and the process of creating and transferring new medical technology from research into actual use (commercialization). Topics include pharmaceuticals, drug delivery, and medical devices. In a seminar setting, students interact with biomedical scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs directly involved in creating new companies based on future technologies. Students may find this subject helpful in evaluating possible theses. Open to advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor.
Explains the role of the entrepreneur in the built environment using case studies to outline different steps in developing real estate, construction, architectural and related enterprises. Emphasizes strategic marketing and implementation of the plan in the development of these businesses. Addresses the progression of an idea, from an opportunity to a sustainable business. Guest lectures from entrepreneurs in the built environment outline the various entrepreneurial paths and characteristics they took to success. Team project consists of identifying an idea/opportunity and plan for developing a sustainable company.
Presents real-world examples in which quantitative methods provide a significant competitive edge that has led to a first order impact on some of today's most important companies.
Special seminar focusing on the challenges of envisioning, planning, and building startups that are commercializing innovations from neuroscience and the blossoming domain of neuroengineering. Topics include neuroimaging and diagnostics, psychophysiology, rehab feedback, affective computing, neurotherapeutics, surgical tools, neuropharmaceuticals, deep brain stimulation, prosthetics and neurobionics, artificial senses, nerve regeneration, and more. Each class is devoted to a specific topic area. The first hour covers the topic in survey form. The second hour is dedicated to a live case study of a specific organization. A broad spectrum of issues, from the deeply technical through market opportunity, is explored in each class.
Description and critical assessment of the major issues and stages of developing a pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical.
Firms must develop major innovations to prosper but they don't know how. Recent research into the innovation process has made it possible to develop breakthroughs systematically. Explore several practical idea generation development methods. Presentations of real cases by invited experts conveys the art required to implement each.
Uses a seminar format to discuss the business of software (products and services) and software-based digital platforms.
Overview of the field of entrepreneurial theory and practice for development and growth of technology-based new enterprises.
Surveys key strategic decisions faced by managers, investors and scientists at each stage in the value chain of the life science industry.
Focuses on the management of product and process innovation and on economic, management, and technological influences on innovation.
Project-based subject focusing on energy sector companies.
Strategic and organizational issues in the development of new technologies and new business areas for existing firms.
Innovation teams of science, engineering, and management students evaluate the commercial feasibility of research generated by grants to School of Engineering faculty by the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation.
Seminar on founding, financing, and building entrepreneurial ventures in developing nations. Challenges students to craft enduring and economically viable solutions to the problems faced by these countries.
Seminar surveys internal and external entrepreneurship, based on Media Lab technologies, to increase understanding of how digital innovations grow into societal change.
Linked Data Ventures is a graduate-level class that combines both practitioner perspectives and practical hands-on experience with Semantic Web technologies.
Advanced work or special investigation of an entrepreneurial topic not specifically covered elsewhere and not qualifying as a thesis. Readings, conferences, laboratory and fieldwork, and reports. Consult Tara Walor in Sloan Educational Services for details.
Examines the role entrepreneurship can play in promoting sustainable economic development.