Emerging Technology-Based Innovation & Entrepreneurship

For whom?

This specialisation is for second year master students MOT, EPA or CoSEM. You want to broaden your knowledge with an entrepreneurial perspective. 

What will you learn?

Building on the concept of Responsible Innovation, students learn to better understand how new emerging technologies can have a variety of social, economic and environmental impacts and how these impacts can be balanced. Knowing these impacts and how to take the benefit from emerging technologies in a responsible way provides opportunities for innovation managers and entrepreneurs over those who lack such understanding. By making use of specific strategic niche management and instruments we focus on the process by which newly developed technologies move from initial idea to successful new technologies in the market and the strategies which firms can apply in those markets to make their technologies successful. In particular, we focus on the emergence of dominant designs, identifying commercial applications of new technologies and the role of various stakeholders in (innovation) networks.  

In the second quarter students can choose whether to follow the stream of Corporate entrepreneurship or the stream Turning technology into business. Corporate entrepreneurship investigates how incumbents can develop an organization which is more conducive to entrepreneurial behaviour and how it can manage corporate venture programs to tap into emerging technologies and new and small business ventures. Turning Technology into Business takes the new technology as the starting point and tries to identify commercial applications. 

Learning objectives

After following this specialization you will: 

• Be able to understand the concept of responsible innovation and how it affects or provides to social, environmental and economic impact.
• Have insight into the dynamics and emergence of new technologies and the role of networking among firms in establishing a dominant design.  
• Be able to analyse specific markets in which a technology-based product can be introduced based upon the course Turning technology into Business.  
• Have a thorough understanding of corporate entrepreneurship; the contexts, the forms, and its relationship with strategic management,  
• Have skills to analyse strategic situations and design appropriate corporate entrepreneurial strategies to benefit from emerging and transformational technologies. 

Job Specialisation

Emerging technology-based innovation and entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly important in a fast moving society where many new opportunities arise every day. Essential skills and insights from experience are acquired from this specialization, which focuses on technology-based entrepreneurship. These skills are highly effective. It is a natural extension to the Management of Technology master programme. 

Education methods

Each separate module has its own method of assessment (assignments, written or oral exam, essay or individual project) as described in their individual course descriptions.