Spring 2024 Course Times: Online with weekly assignments.  Optional online live chat each Tuesday evening at 8:00 pm from January 16 to March 26.

Course Description-Catalog: Catalog: ENTR.3000 Principles of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Formerly ENTR/64.3000)   This course is designed to help business and non-business students understand the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship in today’s global economy and cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset among students in the Manning School of Business entrepreneurship concentration. It will cover different forms of entrepreneurship such as small businesses, growth ventures, corporate entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. The course will focus on the types of innovation, turning innovation into an ongoing new venture and on the entrepreneurial process. Innovation and entrepreneurship theories and concepts will be discussed with real life examples and cases.   Pre-requisite: Sophomore level or higher.

Course Overview: After successful completion of this course, students will:

• Understand and articulate the impact of innovation and entrepreneurship on community and economic development;

•  Develop an awareness and understanding of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial process;

• Know the three models of entrepreneurial development: Causal, Effectual, and Lean Launchpad

• Integrate entrepreneurial thinking and problem-solving into their academic and professional aspirations;

• Articulate the different pathways to entrepreneurship including lifestyle businesses, high-tech/high growth entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship.

Welcome Letter from Jack M. Wilson

Required text: "Changing the World: Entrepreneurship": by J. M. Wilson (JMW-CTWE) as found on Blackboard and found online at:
      Chapter by Chapter Version:  Changing the World: Entrepreneurship  Chapters  

      Full Text: "Changing the World: Entrepreneurship" by Jack M. Wilson 

Format for the hybrid BMC Business Plan  [Hybrid BMC Business Plan]                         Review Sheet for Exams 1 and 2