By: Kate Brand, Associate Director of Communications

As part of the Master of Engineering (MEng) ELITE* certificate, the APS 1088 Entrepreneurship and Business for Engineers course is taught by Professor Emeritus Joseph C. Paradi, Executive Director of the Faculty's Centre for Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship.

The APS 1088 course is intended to give Engineering graduate students an understanding of how business enterprises are formed and operated and to introduce the skills needed to take an invention from the laboratory into a business enterprise.

Topics covered include: how to launch a new firm; its technical, economic, legal, HR, marketing & sales and financial aspects together with case histories from industry to illustrate the topics. The innovation process and Intellectual Property aspects of research results are woven into the course content. Visitors from industry join some lectures.

The course project is the preparation of a complete Business Plan by each student, based on an innovation from their Department (suggested by the Chair). The course has three hours of lectures and a tutorial, which is used to bring in entrepreneurs as visitors. There are real activities from smaller projects, including a brief biography of an entrepreneur to the major deliverable - The Business Plan.

More information:

• Other courses available in the MEng ELITE certificate
• Centre for Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship
  

*ELITE stands for Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Innovation and Technology in Engineering

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