The document discusses technopreneurship and Cisco's role in supporting it. Technopreneurship combines technology and entrepreneurship by having innovative individuals use technology to address business or social challenges. Cisco provides networking, security and cloud technology training along with hands-on experience using their equipment to give students technical skills. They support technopreneurship through knowledge sharing, idea conception, practical experience, and access to mentorship programs and grants to help solve problems. Some potential areas for technopreneurs to thrive include AI, desalination, pollution cleanup, energy storage, and more. Cisco helps make the technopreneurship journey possible through their resources and programs.

1. September 2022
Technopreneurship

2. Networking,
security, cloud
technologies
Motivation to address
social or business
challenges
Network simulation
tools, labs with
Cisco equipment
Teamwork,
collaboration,
communications,
problem-solving
What is Technopreneurship
Technical Skills Global Problem
Solvers
Hands-On
Experience
Career Skills
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3. TECHNOPRENEURSHIP Global Problem
Solvers
What is TECHNOLOGY?
It is the application of scientific knowledge
for practical purposes, especially in industry.
What is Entrepreneurship?
the activity of setting up a business or
businesses, taking on financial risks in the
hope of profit.

4. TECHNOPRENEURSHIP Global Problem
Solvers
The term technopreneurship is a fusion of two words, technology,
and entrepreneurship. It is a kind of entrepreneurship in the field of
technology. It involves tech-savvy, creative, innovative individuals
who have a knack for taking a calculated risk, unlike
entrepreneurship, which can sometimes be a one-person show.
A technopreneur is a person who revolutionizes the prevailing
economic order by making the best use of the technology at hand.

5. Technology and the Entrepreneur Global Problem
Solvers
Goods and services are produced using the factors of production available
to the economy. Two things play a crucial role in putting these factors of
production to work. The first is technology, the knowledge that can be
applied to the production of goods and services. The second is an
individual who plays a key role in a market economy: the entrepreneur.
An entrepreneur is a person who, operating within the context of a
market economy, seeks to earn profits by finding new ways to organize
factors of production. In non-market economies the role of the
entrepreneur is played by bureaucrats and other decision makers who
respond to incentives other than profit to guide their choices about
resource allocation decisions.

6. Technology and the Entrepreneur Global Problem
Solvers
The interplay of entrepreneurs and technology affects all our lives.
Entrepreneurs put new technologies to work every day, changing the way
factors of production are used. Farmers and factory workers, engineers and
electricians, technicians and teachers all work differently than they did just
a few years ago, using new technologies introduced by entrepreneurs. The
music you enjoy, the books you read, the athletic equipment with which
you play are produced differently than they were five years ago. The book
you are reading was written and manufactured using technologies that did
not exist ten years ago. We can dispute whether all the changes have made
our lives better. What we cannot dispute is that they have made our lives
different.

7. DESIGN THINKING Global Problem
Solvers
Technopreneurship involves designing or thinking around
how to make profit using new or old technologies.
Common Technologies
Television.
Internet. ...
Cell phones. ...
Computers. ...
Circuitry. ...
Artificial intelligence. ...
Software. ...
Audio and visual technology.
Future Technologies
Computing Power.
Smarter Devices.
Quantum Computing.
Datafication.
Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning.
Extended Reality.
Digital Trust.
3D Printing.
Which of the following are you rightly
positioned in making profit from?

8. DESIGN THINKING Global Problem
Solvers
What is Design Thinking?
Design thinking is an approach used for
practical and creative problem-solving.
Design thinking is a non-linear, iterative process
that teams use to understand users, challenge
assumptions, redefine problems and create
innovative solutions to prototype and test.

9. STAGES OF DESIGN THINKING
EMPATHIZE: Research Your Users' Needs
DEFINE: State Your Users' Needs and Problems
IDEATE: Challenge Assumptions and Create Ideas
PROTOTYPE: Start to Create Solutions
TEST: Try Your Solutions Out

10. FACTORS AFFECTING TECHNOPRENEURSHIP
Human Factor – Ideation, Skills, Labour, Partnership etc
Financial Factor – Capital, Loans, Grants, Pricing, Cost of Production,
ROI etc
Economic Factor – Competitions, Demand and supply, expansion,
Government policies, legal issues, patent, etc
Environmental Factor –Temperature, food, pollutants, population
density, sound, light, and parasites etc

11. Networking,
security, cloud
technologies
Motivation to address
social or business
challenges
Network simulation
tools, labs with
Cisco equipment
Teamwork,
collaboration,
communications,
problem-solving
DOES THIS MAKE SENSE
Technical Skills Global Problem
Solvers
Hands-On
Experience
Career Skills
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12. Networking,
security, cloud
technologies
Motivation to address
social or business
challenges
Network simulation
tools, labs with
Cisco equipment
Teamwork,
collaboration,
communications,
problem-solving
Role of Cisco in Technopreneurship for Students
Technical Skills Global Problem
Solvers
Hands-On
Experience
Career Skills
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Knowledge (Understanding the concept of being a Technopreneur)
Conceive the Technopreneurship Idea
Practicalise Technopreneurship
Be your own boss {Technopreneur or Intrapreneur}
Get access to grants and mentorship programs for Technopreneurs
Solve national and global problem

13. Networking,
security, cloud
technologies
Motivation to address
social or business
challenges
Network simulation
tools, labs with
Cisco equipment
Teamwork,
collaboration,
communications,
problem-solving
PUTTING IT TOGETHER
Technical Skills Global Problem
Solvers
Hands-On
Experience
Career Skills
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14. Elon Musk Mark Zuckerberg Jeff Bezos Bill Gates Larry Page
(SpaceX) (Facebook) (Amazon) (Microsoft) (
Famous Technopreneurs

15. Networking,
security, cloud
technologies
Motivation to address
social or business
challenges
Network simulation
tools, labs with
Cisco equipment
Teamwork,
collaboration,
communications,
problem-solving
How do Cisco make Technopreneurship Journey possible?
Technical Skills Global Problem
Solvers
Hands-On
Experience
Career Skills
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16. POTENTIAL AREAS TO THRIVE
Embodied AI
Energy-efficient desalination
Ocean clean-up
Grid-scale energy storage
Carbon appropriation
Dementia treatment
Secure driverless car
Earthquake prediction
Brain decoding

17. References
• https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/design-thinking
• https://www.giet.edu/post/technopreneurship-an-emerging-field-of-
entrepreneurship/#:~:text=The%20term%20technopreneurship%20is%20a,be%20a%20o
ne%2Dperson%20show.
• Oxford dictionary
• https://www.iedunote.com/entrepreneurship
• https://industrywired.com/ten-big-global-challenges-technology-could-solve/
• https://open.lib.umn.edu/principleseconomics/chapter/2-1-factors-of-production/
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