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Graduate Studies Calendar 2021-2022 Courses of Instruction Course Descriptions E Entrepreneurship and Innovation ENTI
Entrepreneurship and Innovation ENTI

Instruction offered by members of the Haskayne School of Business.

Graduate Courses
Entrepreneurship and Innovation 601       Entrepreneurial Thinking
Business leaders are challenged to think entrepreneurially – to seek opportunities and find ways to turn opportunities into viable ventures. These may be for-profit, not-for-profit, or social ventures. Students will engage in experiential learning to complete a feasibility assessment of such an opportunity, including the concept of giving back to society.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 607       Digital Entrepreneurship Technology
Explores emerging digital tools and technologies that support, improve, and transform entrepreneurship and innovation. Students engage in hands-on exercises and tinkering using various tools and practice providing technology recommendations.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 609       Technology and Innovation Management
The dynamics of innovation as the primary driving force within firms and modern industrialized economies. Potential concepts are: incremental versus radical innovations, market-pull versus technology-push theories, dominant designs, technological trajectories, key factors for successful innovation. The emergence of new technologies; the importance of national and regional innovation systems; the role of science, regulations and social pressure in innovations dynamics; knowledge management; and implications for firms in rapidly changing industrial settings may be discussed.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Entrepreneurship and Innovation 793)
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 611       Technology Commercialization
The process of taking a technology product or service from development to the market, including market strategies, finding investors and potential early customers, the role of advisors, legal issues and the importance of the exit strategy for founders and early stage investors. Students will be required to complete a major project to write a feasibility study for a new technology or a case study of a successful technology venture.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Entrepreneurship and Innovation 791)
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 617       Opportunity Development
A project- and case-based course designed to explore concepts of opportunity development.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-1)
Also known as:
(formerly Entrepreneurship and Innovation 783)
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 621       Start-up Venture Analysis
Students learn firm formation, early-stage financing, and the development of massively scalable companies through lectures and interactions with ventures participating in the CDL-Rockies program.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Entrepreneurship and Innovation 621 and Finance 663 or 785 will not be allowed.
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 623       Creative Destruction Lab - Rockies
Students learn how to build a technology firm by providing hands-on assistance to CDL-Rockies ventures based on guidance provided by seasoned business mentors and investors.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Entrepreneurship and Innovation 797.01)
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 625       Introduction to Entrepreneurship
An experience-based course covering the prestart-up stage of business development through group projects and case studies designed to provide experience-based skill development in creativity, idea generation, and feasibility analysis.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Entrepreneurship and Innovation 781)
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 627       Venture Development
A project-based course designed around the formation of business concepts in the formalization of a business plan.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Entrepreneurship and Innovation 785)
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 629       Applied Business Analysis
Approaches to advising new and existing ventures on effective venture development. Projects will involve the student conducting analysis of several ventures and providing advice to them.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Marketing 601 or consent of the Haskayne School of Business.
Also known as:
(formerly Entrepreneurship and Innovation 787)
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 631       New Venture Law
Legal principles impacting business decisions regarding new venture creation, growth and routine business operations. Topics may include: corporate structure, directors' and officers' liability, financing, intellectual property law, contracts and regulations.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Entrepreneurship and Innovation 631 and 797.02 will not be allowed.
Also known as:
(formerly Entrepreneurship and Innovation 731)
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 668       Seminar in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Study and discussion of current research literature and contemporary issues on topics related to Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3S-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Entrepreneurship and Innovation 789)
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 672       Thinking like an Entrepreneur
Focuses on identifying and successfully exploiting opportunities by applying research and analytical tools. Some of the topics covered include design thinking and business modelling.
Course Hours:
1.5 units; (3-1T)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the Master of Management program.
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 674       Technologies of Innovation
Focuses on the use of leading edge technology for innovation, entrepreneurship and automation in different organizational contexts. Special emphasis on web-based software such as: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tools.
Course Hours:
1.5 units; (3-1T)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the Master of Management program.
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 735       Organizational Change and Innovation
Explores dynamics and elements involved in creating, implementing, navigating and studying organizational change and innovation. Examines how to study and describe change and innovation and the respective processes in organizations.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to the Doctor of Business Administration program.
NOT INCLUDED IN GPA
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 797       Advanced Seminar in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Intensive study and discussion of current literature and research with respect to selected, advanced topics in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. May include formal academic or applied research project.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3S-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Consent of the Haskayne School of Business.    
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation 799       Doctoral Seminars in Venture Development

799.01. Entrepreneurship: The State of the Art

799.02. Conceptual Models and Theories of New Venture Development

799.03. Special Topics in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

799.04. Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship


Course Hours:
3 units; (3S-0)
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