Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainability

This course is aimed at high-tech entrepreneurs who have great ideas which they like to implement in established organizations, through intrapreneurship or corporate venturing, or use to start and grow themselves new companies. The course is specifically focused on the business opportunities related to new energy technologies. New, emerging, sometimes radically different energy technologies provide significant opportunities for alternative products and services, new business models and new ways of working for more efficient approaches to resource exploitation and energy production and consumption. Yet to harness these opportunities, it often requires to abandon existing paradigms and search in landscapes more distant from current ones. Entrepreneurial activity is a key driver here and the need to develop the skills to develop and act on innovative business opportunities is increasingly vital. By using evidence-based content, methods, and models this course guides you in the analyses of new venture opportunities by assessing and investigating the commercial potential of implementing new technologies either from a social challenge or technology perspective. Opportunity recognition, product-service innovation, sustainable business modelling, and new venture growth dynamics in the context of networks of established firms and the wider stakeholders are core elements of this course.

This course is the third course in the SET Economics en Society profile.