The ability to 'think like an entrepreneur' and 'act like an innovator' are critical skills for success across industries and are proven tools to help distinguish you in the workplace and to accelerate your career. The entrepreneurial process isn't only for start-ups, it's a comprehensive mindset that will teach you to identify, assess, shape, and act on opportunities in a variety of contexts, settings and organizations.
It's a Big Step from Engineer to an Entrepreneur. It's finally happened. After years of kicking around mere "ideas," you've thought up something worthy of all caps: THE IDEA. The one that will let you quit your full-time job, earn you a billion dollars, and eventually own your own island. Here's the problem, you don't know how to turn your brilliant idea into a brilliant product that consumers everywhere will want to buy.
Entrepreneurs have led economies out of downturns in the last 100 years and evidence points to this trend continuing into the future. In fact, regardless of country or economic conditions, entrepreneurial enterprises are on the rise. High-tech start-ups, where innovation, dedication, collaboration, and pure genius align into a successful enterprise, will likely see good times if they start up right. However, many young researchers hesitate to set up their own company.
Every engineer who has invented some new technology, or is adept at creating solutions, believes that is the hard part, and it should be a short step to take that solution to market as an entrepreneur. In reality, that short business step embodies far more risk, and a poor technology solution is not near the top of most lists of common reasons for business failures.
Outlining a systematic preparation process that will build a great reputation in the commercial marketplace, the course answers:
- Learn what it takes to become a technopreneur
-Explore various methods for identifying opportunities
-How to start up a company
-Learn how to conduct market research and provide evidence for the viability of the business idea
-Develop a viable business proposition and learn to pitch your ideas for various audiences
-How to create product lines
-Develop the ability to translate a business idea into marketing and financial plans
-Understand the dynamics of new venture development and team building
-How to write successful R&D proposals
-How to collect venture capital
-How to apply forward thinking
-How to keep cash flowing in a small firm
The Internet is the great equalizer, allowing all of us to develop broad, as well as deep, skills and insights quickly. With the economy on the rebound, we need more entrepreneurs to satisfy new demands and solve new problems. It is time for more engineers to take the first big step.
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