This is the introduction presentation of my course, the essential of Technology entrepreneurship and innovation. This course provide the students with a conceptual knowledge regarding the essentials for management practices of a technology-based organization, and the evolution of technology. The topics covered in this course would include: • Introduction to the concept of entrepreneurship. • What entrepreneurs do and their importance to economy • How to seize business opportunity; • Know the process of creativity and difference between invention and innovation • Know how innovation is important as a dimension of entrepreneurship • Critical factors in managing technology; including • The Time Factor (Osborn effect) • Technology Push and Market Pull • The S-Curve of Technology • Technology and Product Life Cycle • The Chain Equation of Technology Innovation • Price Knowledge Gape Relation • Difference between Entrepreneurship and Stewardship Management • Difference between technology leader and followers • Competition and Competitiveness Concepts. • The process of the technological innovation; • Who are the customers; and • How to optimize cost and find finance for your projects • Demonstrate the importance of business plan, including the marketing and financial plans and how to prepare it. • Know the structure and management of a technology organization

1. CS443 Course
Introduction To Entrepreneurship
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Spring 2009, Modern Science & Arts University
Instructor:
Al-Motaz Bellah Alaa Al-Agamawi
Introduction to Entrepreneurship Course By: Motaz Al-Agamawi

2. Course Aims
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Th course provides the basis of the entrepreneurship and its related concepts and
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practices. The prerequisites would provide the students with a conceptual knowledge
regarding the management practices of a technology-based organization, the history of
computers and the evolution of technology. Th topics covered in this course would include:
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• Introduction to the concept of entrepreneurship.
• How to seize business opportunity;
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Critical factors in managing technology;
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• Technology life cycle;
• The process of the technological innovation;
• Wh are the customers; and
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• How to optimize cost and find finance for your projects
The lab part of this course would be utilized to help the students to compile an effective
business plan while implementing the acquired k
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3. Course Learning Outcomes (Knowledge)
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• Know what entrepreneurs do and their importance to economy
• Know the process of creativity and difference between invention and innovation
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dimension of entrepreneurship
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• Know the technology life cycles
• Know the process of technology innovation
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plans and how to prepare it.
• Know the structure and management of a technology organization
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4. Course Learning Outcomes (Skills)
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• Critically know the difference between invention and innovation.
• Comprehensively understand the technology life cycle and process of technology
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• Develop a professional and comprehensive business plan.
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5. Course Strategy
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Weekly l t
W kl lectures to i introduce the concepts of the course subjects and apply them
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to related case studies.
Weekly tutorials to discuss the solution of the weekly homework assignments;
usually the assignment would include developing one of the main business plan
sections.
Tuesday of Each Week:
10:30 to 12:00: Lecture, illustrating main concepts and ideas
12:00 1:30: Lecture, discussing a case study or conducting an open discussion
12 00 to 1 30 L di i d d i di i
3:00 to 4:30: Tutorials applying one of the business plan sections or discussing a case
study.
Introduction to Entrepreneurship Course By: Motaz Al-Agamawi

6. Course Assessment
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Assignments and participation 20%
Quizzes 20%
Projects 20%
Unseen Final Exam 40%
Introduction to Entrepreneurship Course By: Motaz Al-Agamawi

7. Course Assessment Details
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• Assignments and participation
• About 10 Assignment all over the course life time.
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• Most of the assignment will be in form of case studies.
• Quizzes
• Most of the question will be Multiple choice
• About 4 quizzes over the course life time
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Projects
• Group project, to prepare a complete business plan
• Unseen Final Exam
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8. Course Bonus Activity
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• At the end of each chapter you will find a bonus activity bonus.
• You have the right to do it or not.
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• Bonus activity must be submitted within a week.
• You will gain a maximum of 2% for each submitted bonus activity
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9. Course Learning Material
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• Entrepreneurship Starting and Operating a small business, by Steve Mariotti
Entrepreneurship- business Mariotti,
Pearson Education Inc, 2007.
•Customized Management of Technology- The Key to Competitiveness and Wealth
Creation by T k Khalil, McGraw-Hill C
C ti , b Tarek Kh lil M G Hill Companies, I 2000
i Inc,2000.
•The Strategy of Managing Innovation and Technology, by Murray R. Millson & David
Wilemon, Pearson Education Inc, 2008.
•Entrepreneurship- A C t
E t hi Contemporary A Approach, Fifth Editi b Donald F. K tk &
h Edition, by D ld F Kuratko
Richard M. Hodgetts, Harcourt Inc, 2001
•Project Management for Information Systems, Fifith Edition, by James Cadle & Donald
Yeates, Pearson Education Inc, 2008
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•What Best CEOs Know, by Jeffrey A. Krames, McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc,2005.
•Futuring- The Exploration of the Future, by Edward Cornish, World Future Society, 2004
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Introduction to Entrepreneurship Course By: Motaz Al-Agamawi