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Technology Entrepreneurship Study Mission (Asia)

Course (UG/PG)

Undergraduate

Offering Unit/Department

Course Description

his course prepares the students to translate their business innovations into a technology start-up company. Students will get an opportunity to learn from startups in the city of the study mission and apply the skills learnt in this course to their own start-up company.

This course will help student:
- Get introduced to the entrepreneurship scene.
- Develop an understanding of the factors and ecosystem leading to a start-up.
- Aspire to be entrepreneurs and apply their findings to their own venture.
- Understand how to start a technology company.
- Build relationships with the organisations we visit.

Course Learning Outcomes

understand the Singapore entrepreneurship scene understand the factors leading to a startup research the SWOT and factors of a startup or innovative lab/strategy apply their technopreneurship findings to their own venture build relationships with contacts and companies we visited experience the innovation ecosystem and culture of the city to visit

Discipline-Specific Competencies

Networking, Product Management, Business Development, Market Research, Market Trend Analysis

SMU Graduate Learning Outcomes

Collaboration and leadership, Communication, Intercultural understanding and sensitivity, Understanding of global and Asian perspectives

Grading Basis

PNP - Pass/Fail