Entrepreneurship & Innovation Project 2024
Week-1: Tuesday, 16th January & Thursday, 18th January
Week-1 of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Project course will mainly serve as an opportunity to introduce the students to the teaching framework and expectations for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Project course as organised by Dr Ndali Liita Naukushu Cairney. In Week-1, students will also be introduced to the rationale for the main readings required in the EIP course.
Week 1, Lesson 1: How to think about and order social and scientific information as a basis for an entrepreneurial idea; Introduction to the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Project.
Learning Outcomes:
Identify Market Segments (Introduce the Business Model Navigator in the context of the Collective Class Project to Construct a Business Value Proposition)
Key Themes for Week-1:
- Social Science and Technical Data for Entrepreneurship Innovation
- Thinking about, communicating, and ordering data for Entrepreneurship
- Introducing the Concept of Value Proposition
- Introduction to Business Model Navigator
- Introduction to Disciplined Entrepreneurship
- Introduction to Teamwork & Class Attendance Benefits for Success in EIP
- Introduction to the University of Edinburgh Prototyping Resources
Assignment for Week-1:
Students need to provide their first personal/individual blog reflections on their expectations from enrolling on the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Project.
Hardware & Software Labs for Week-1:
Tuesday Lab & Course Introduction: Introduction to WordPress Blogging
Thursday Lab 1: Introduction to TinkerCAD and WordPress
Thursday Lab 2: MakerSpace and Informatics Hardware Prototype Resources
Required Readings for Week-1:
Disciplined Entrepreneurship, Pages 1-22
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship
The 24-Steps for Disciplined Entrepreneurship
Getting Started with Entrepreneurship
Starting a Team
Development As Freedom, Pages 1-34
Development as Freedom
Political Freedom and Quality of Life
Institutions and Instrumental Freedoms
Forms of Un-freedom
Poverty and Inequalities
Markets and Freedom
Soul of a New Machine, Pages 1-65
How to Make a Lot of Money from Computers in the 1970s
The Arrival of the Modern Computer (Data General and NOVA)
Computer Hardware Wars (Data General vs DEC)
Building a Corporate Team to Commercialize a New Technology