The Entrepreneur Curriculum was developed at UC Berkeley and is the effort of many of the full-time and adjunct faculty within the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The effort to develop the curriculum was led by Dr. Jerome S. Engel, Executive Director, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. More information on their overall program can be found at Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business*.
Each two-day Intel Technology Entrepreneurship seminar aims to inspire and train academic staff from technology-oriented institutes about how to better equip students with entrepreneurial skills, by integrating this topic into their own programmes. The program will offer a teaching curriculum, classroom exercises, and other tools for university professors to teach the basics of entrepreneurship to engineers and scientists, creating innovative business people with cross-disciplinary skills, technical expertise, and the ability to seize market opportunities. Faculties attending the program are encouraged to share their newly gained knowledge with faculty at other schools also.
‘Technology Entrepreneurship Education – Theory to Practice’ seminar was held in India at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai from 28 - 30 March 2006. Participating in the seminar was faculty members from 16 technology institutes and B-schools, and 4 from non-academic bodies. Key topics covered included ‘building a curriculum’ and ‘creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem’. In India, ‘Technology Entrepreneurship Education – Theory to Practice’ seminar was supported by National Entrepreneurship Board, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.
Jerry Engel and David Charron, both faculty members from the entrepreneurship programme at the University of California’s Haas School of Business at Berkeley, delivered the seminar. In the seminar, Jerry and David emphasized upon the systematic frameworks of entrepreneurship and maneuvered checklists of best practices that have worked globally.
“Entrepreneurship needs to be encouraged from all avenues. Hence, it can be better taught by faculties, who have prior experience as Chief Executives / partners of an enterprise. The seminar is very fruitful and useful for those who wish to train entrepreneurs and for those who want to be entrepreneurs” explains R. Nagaraj, COO, NS Raghavan Center for Entrepreneurial Learning, IIM-B. Successful implementation of this program at the technology institutes can create an entrepreneurial ecosystem that includes education, facilities and events where students and local entrepreneurial networks can meet and exchange ideas and experiences.
Technology Entrepreneurship is intended to be a full academic year of courses. It can be offered at the last year of an undergraduate program or in a masters program.
Intel Education has sponsored this program to accelerate the adoption of entrepreneurship as a teaching method and core activity within regions. Intel maintains close working relationships with many academic and research institutions to foster entrepreneurship and improve the quality of education around the world.
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