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Entrepreneurship Educationand
Technology Commercialization
Tom Ermolovich
Visiting Assistant Professor
School of Technological Entrepreneurship
College of Professional Studies
Phone: 617-508-1800
How do define entrepreneurship?
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Webster:
“One who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.”
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Our definition:
“One who starts a business.”
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Our definition:
“One who starts a business.”
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Technology
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Analytical Artistic
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Academic Experiential
Program Concept
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I-cubator
Academic courses
Idea
Innovation Timelines
Research
Product Development
PatentLicense
& InvestmentProduct
SalesResearch
Idea
Technology Transfer Product Development
License
Development
Innovation Gap
FacultyInterest
Traditional Path since Bayh
Dole
I-cubator Process Flow
Industrial Ideas
Faculty Ideas
MTTC
NU TTO
Student Ideas
Idea
Selection
Committee
Project
Team
Business Plan
& Prototype
Venture
Partners
Industry
Partners
Spin-out
Spin-out
Spin-in
Opportunity
Assessment
Product Requirements
& Prototype
Customer
Validation
Business Plan
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Investor Presentation
Some cool projects underway
• Bio-sensing chip
• Stroke rehabilitation device
• Locally Heard
• Rapid prototype metal castings
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Two Master’s Programs
• Master of Science in Technology Entrepreneurship
•www.neu.edu/ste
• Master of Science in Technology Commercialization
•www.neu.edu/cps/mstc
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On-the-ground
Online
Recent grads
Mid-career
MSTE
MSTC
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Questions?
