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Course Details

Title Entrepreneurship in the Research Context (1) : "Entrepreneurial Motivation" (PGcertPD Mod 1 required) - Online CODE: 1:279
Hrs: 6
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Prerequisites Please register for this course in the usual way - you will be given instructions as to how to access this online course.
Aims Module 1 "Enhancing Research Practice" requires completion of 18 RTCs in Entrepreneurship. "Entrepreneurial Motivation (this course) counts for 6 of these RTCs.
Outcomes Entrepreneurship in the academic context
Entrepreneurial motivation

Characteristics of a successful entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship and you

Unit Description About the Tutors:
Author - Dr Shai Vyakarnam, Cambridge University

Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam is Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has extensive experience in business and in business education, most recently at Cambridge where he has initiated a number of courses designed for science, engineering and technology students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

He founded a consulting business, Transitions, through which he has invested in and initiated a number of start-ups, all of which are technology dependent. His other affiliations include a visiting professorship at the University of Reading and Nottingham Business School. He is on the advisory board of ArcLabs, a telecoms-oriented incubation centre in Ireland, and the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship. He is a fellow of the RSA and trustee of a charity that works in rural India (GEN Initiative).

His present research interests focus on gaining a better understanding of how social networks operate in high-tech clusters. And for fun he runs a blog www.shaivyakarnam.blogspot.com on entrepreneurship education and related issues.

Author - Adam J Bock, Imperial College London

Adam J Bock is a doctoral student in innovation and entrepreneurship studies at The Business School, Imperial College London. Adam has led, advised, and financed numerous technology ventures. He also has experience teaching and researching entrepreneurship topics.

Adam has co-founded two medical device companies spun out of university research programmes and served as chief executive of a third. He spent four years facilitating private funds into start-up technology companies on behalf of angel investors. He has consulted on more than a dozen early-stage ventures on technology transfer, recruitment, financing, business plan writing, product development and exit. He has taught entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business and served as a coach and mentor for DesignLondon and the Wisconsin Small Business Development Center.

He is the co-author (with Imperial College Professor Gerry George) of Inventing Entrepreneurs (Prentice-Hall, 2008), a book that describes the entrepreneurial journeys of academic entrepreneurs.

Adam lives in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin with his wife Lynn and his children, Taran and Kenna.

Session Process This is an online course. Please register in the usual way.