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Corporate Entrepreneurship: Innovating within Corporations Specialization

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Course Features

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Duration

5 months

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Beginner

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Effort

4 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

A growing number of established businesses recognize the importance of creating new business opportunities within their company. Companies must create, develop and sustain new businesses to meet the challenges of maturing technologies and ageing product portfolios. This specialization is for corporate entrepreneurs who want to learn how to apply entrepreneurial principles in a corporate setting. The course will teach you how to overcome the obstacles to creating, developing and maintaining innovative businesses within your company. These new activities are often not compatible with established systems, processes, or cultures. The skills and best practices that will be taught to learners include the ability to identify and develop entrepreneurial opportunities, build business models, create strategies for leading innovation and finance it. These are the topics that comprise the four courses in the Corporate Entrepreneurship Specialization. A final project is also included. Individuals who are motivated and/or charged to create and lead new businesses within existing companies will benefit from the Corporate Entrepreneurship Specialization. This program is for junior and mid-managers who have the responsibility to create new business opportunities or initiatives in their company or division in any industry and any country.

Course Overview

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Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Introducing the skills for identifying and analyzing entrepreneurial ideas within a corporate environment

Examining entrepreneurial thinking within yourself and your colleagues with an awareness of entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurial motivations, and entrepreneurial behaviors

Identifying how to create and deliver value for existing and future customers of the company

Learning how to extract value for the corporate venture in a sustainable fashion

Examining how to audit a company's internal environment to establish a framework for its innovation capabilities

Creating a plan for an organizational structure and operational format that incorporates key roles and players for internal ventures within the company

Learning the fundamentals and how to create financial statements for new ventures within the corporate environment

Examining valuation techniques for understanding how to assess and grow the value of the corporate venture

Identifying and developing the entrepreneurial opportunities

Building business models

Course Instructors

Dr. James V. Green

Managing Director of Learning and Development

Dr. James V. Green leads the education activities of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute. He is responsible for designing and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, leading seed fundin...

Daniel Gordon

Lecturer of Technology Entrepreneurship

Dan Gordon has over 30 years of experience working with technology, as a computer scientist, software developer, manager, analyst, and entrepreneur. As a technology partner with Valhalla Partners, Da...

Dr. Thomas J. Mierzwa

Lecturer of Technology Entrepreneurship

Dr. Mierzwa has more than 20 years of teaching experience at University of Maryland and other universities, where he has taught courses in strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship. This includes tea...

Michael R. Pratt

Lecturer of Technology Entrepreneurship

Michael Pratt teaches and mentors students in University of Maryland's Minor in Technology Entrepreneurship Program and the General Education Program of the University. His career spans 35 years in m...
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