Core Courses:
Total number of credits: 9
Three core courses in the ENTI Minor form foundational knowledge, skills and insights into entrepreneurship, innovation and new career path options.
MGMT 215 - Entrepreneurial Mindset
ENGR 310 - Entrepreneurial Leadership
MGMT 425 (ENGR 425/IST 425) - New Venture Creation
Students who complete these core courses develop skills in seven areas:
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Self-efficacy - the belief in yourself that you can define a target and are able to attain your personal goals.
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Leadership - the ability to bring others along to share in the opportunity and motivate effective teams with compelling communication.
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Recognition of new opportunities - the ability to perceive needs where others have not.
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Resourcefulness - the ability to build value using resources not fully under one's own control.
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Creativity - the ability to look at problems from many angles and to synthesize new solutions from existing parts.
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Comfort with ambiguity and failure - the ability to reach decisions based on complex, often conflicting sets of data.
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Business acumen - working understanding of finance, marketing, intellectual property.
New Ventures Cluster:
Total number of credits in this cluster: 9 or 10
Students may not use a required course from their major in the ENTI minor. Other courses, such as technical electives, out-of-college electives, and general education courses may be able to be used to meet requirements in major as well as the ENTI minor. Students may substitute up to 3 credits of research topics, internship or independent studies courses focused on relevant entrepreneurship or innovation topics in consultation with an adviser.
BA 250 - Small Business Management
MGMT 427 - Managing an Entrepreneurial Startup Company
The New Ventures Cluster is designed to help student develop the skills and ways of thinking required to create, develop, innovate and manage entrepreneurial companies. A successful start-up venture requires a wide range of managerial skills not usually demanded in one person within a larger organization, such as:
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Acquiring and balancing limited resources
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Changing direction quickly
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Building a coherent team
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Managing intellectual property
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Creating new markets
The number of credits in this cluster depend on the selection of courses in the area of business law; see list of courses below. Students who complete this cluster develop skills and knowledge in 14 areas:
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Opportunity recognition
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New product development
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Innovative thinking
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Tolerance for ambiguity
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Resource acquisition
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Effective negotiation
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Entrepreneurial management
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Entrepreneurial finance
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Effective teamwork
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Entrepreneurial marketing
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Entrepreneurial and innovation strategy
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Technology commercialization
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Intellectual property management
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Business law