The Summer Intensive is a foundation course in innovation, entrepreneurship, and commercialization for PhD candidates and post-doctoral fellows who are interested in exploring careers as innovation-focused faculty, technology entrepreneurs, strategy consultants, or executives in technology-based firms.The course focuses on the critical issues facing the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a twenty-first century corporation, including the assessment of technological capabilities and opportunities, formulating a technical direction and strategy, designing and developing a product portfolio, and developing a business plan for presentation to investors.<\/p>\n
The Intensive will combine the studio classroom model with a collaborative learning approach. The centerpiece of the module is a team technology strategy project. The technology strategy is a vehicle for integrating and demonstrating your understanding of the concepts developed in the course, and for applying these concepts to a real-world technology. At the beginning of the module, you'll choose a technology of interest to you and form a team to build your technology strategy in stages over the summer, as each topic is introduced. The module will conclude with a mock investment pitch presentation.<\/p>\n
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Module participants will receive a Certificate of Completion at the end.<\/p>\n
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Module dates and times:<\/strong> Mondays and Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., from June 15 to August 7, with a one-week break the week of July 4<\/p>\n Instructor:<\/strong> Dr. John Bers, Associate Professor of the Practice in Engineering Management<\/p>\n Module structure:<\/strong> Flipped classroom model: online lectures and course material are reviewed out-of-class so teams can use class time to discuss how course concepts apply to their innovation.<\/p>\n Cost:<\/strong> No cost to PhD students and postdoctoral fellows in the biomedical sciences or chemistry. This course was developed in 2015 with a pilot grant from Burroughs Wellcome Fund<\/a> (PI: Dr. Kathy Gould, Associate Dean for Biomedical Sciences and Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology).<\/p>\n