EIP: Week-1

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.

Week-1 Summary

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:

1. Disciplined Entrepreneurship, Pages 1-22

   1. Introduction to Entrepreneurship

   2. Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship

   3. The 24-Steps for Disciplined Entrepreneurship

   4. Getting Started with Entrepreneurship

   5. Starting a Team
      

2. Development As Freedom, Pages 1-34

   1. Development as Freedom

   2. Political Freedom and Quality of Life

   3. Institutions and Instrumental Freedoms

   4. Forms of Un-freedom

   5. Poverty and Inequalities

   6. Markets and Freedom
      

3. Soul of a New Machine, Pages 1-65

   1. How to Make a Lot of Money from Computers in the 1970s

   2. The Arrival of the Modern Computer (Data General and NOVA)

   3. Computer Hardware Wars (Data General vs DEC)

   4. Building a Corporate Team to Commercialize a New Technology