Courses
GTSC2016 Entrepreneurship in the Innovation Era (3 units)
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
This course highlights the importance of the interaction between technological development and entrepreneurial spirit to embrace challenges of a new era. This course starts with an examination of the contemporary challenges on different aspects of our everyday life, followed by a discussion on the social, economic, and business impacts of these challenges. Then there is a review on recent scientific or technological developments in the fields such as information communications, smart transportation and green living that we may employ or further develop to help us face these challenges and to build a sustainable future for the society. There will be a dialogue between business and science on how modern technology and business can be integrated to improve the quality of life. Students will be exposed to real life cases in which entrepreneurs make good use of new scientific or technological ideas to develop new products, services, and/or businesses.