MGMT 731 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship

(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: Admission to ISEM Doctoral Program
Description: In this course, the models for successfully organizing technologically driven innovations, in entrepreneurial and established firms, are studied, and critiqued. The student learns to develop innovative-based strategies, which will cause entrepreneurial organizations to earn sustained competitive advantage. The student also discovers how to identify, build, and commercialize technological innovations. This course emphasizes the need for continuity in the building and commercialization of valuable innovations. It draws heavily from recent literature and models on entrepreneurial innovation and expects the student, not only to critique these existing literature and models, but to design original technology-driven innovations that could aid organizations gain and sustain competitive advantage. The course is divided into 4 Modules, which takes the student from the formulation of innovative ideas to the building of innovative entrepreneurial firms. These modules will systematically guide the student to conduct a focused literature review on some advanced aspect of the studied material and produce a research paper.