Updated Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor 2014

FOR SPRING 2015: ANNOUNCING THE NEW
ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION MINOR
FROM IDEATION
TO COMMERCIALIZATION:
Taking your ideas to market
Today’s increasingly dynamic and competitive world requires students of
all types to develop a thorough understanding of entrepreneurship and
innovation. The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Minor recognizes that
everyone is creative and has the ability to develop critical thinking skills that
address problems of global dimension.
The Entrepreneurship &
Innovation Minor combines
course content from multiple
fields to create a program of
study applicable to a wide
array of students majoring in:
business
The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Minor provides undergraduate students
from multiple disciplines and majors with a core understanding of how to
develop a new start-up business or create new products and services within
an existing enterprise. Students completing the minor will possess the ability
to apply critical thinking skills and cross-disciplinary, collaborative problem
solving in the creation of successful new ventures, products and services.
design
The new minor features:
health sciences
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nursing
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Four types of entrepreneurship: start-up based entrepreneurship,
corporate intra-preneurship, technology commercialization and social
entrepreneurship
Infusion of critical thinking skills and creative problem solving
Trans-disciplinary collaborations and project-based experiential learning
engineering
agricultural business
food science
medicine
sciences
arts
The Curriculum Framework
humanities
The minor curriculum is based on a framework that combines theories, tools
and practices of entrepreneurship and innovation that progresses from initial
ideation through commercialization in three distinct phases.
political science
public affairs
hospitality management
CREATION
IDEATION
CAPTURE
Visit go.osu.edu/eminor
to learn more.
DELIVERY
COMMERCIALIZATION
** Contact your academic advisor
if you are currently enrolled in
courses in the entrepreneurship
minor program.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION MINOR
THE E&I MINOR COURSE WORK HAS THREE REQUIRED COMPONENTS
STEP ONE
3 REQUIRED, CORE COURSES
BUSMHR 3510.01:
NEW VENTURE
CREATION
Prerequisite: none to begin
minor
3 credits
ISE ME 5682:
FUNDAMENTALS
OF PRODUCT
DESIGN
One each from business,
design and engineering
DESIGN 2700:
INTRO TO DESIGN
PRACTICE
Can be taken concurrently
3 credits
3 or 4 credits
STEP 2
REQUIRED ELECTIVE COURSES
BUSADM 3531:
START-UP
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
3 credits
OR
BUSADM 3532:
CORPORATE
INTRE-PRENEURSHIP
3 credits
OR
BUSADM 3533:
TECHNOLOGY
COMMERCIALIZATION
OR
BUSMHR 5530:
SOCIAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
3 credits
BUSADM 4510:
E&I PRACTICUM
3 credits
3 credits
Choose one, 3 credits
Prerequisite: successful
completion of all three
required core courses
STEP 3
REQUIRED PRACTICUM
Choose one, 3 credits
Prerequisite: successful
completion of required elective
course
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Minor Overview
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15-16 credits total
Begin in your sophomore year
Can be completed in 4 semesters
Courses must be taken sequentially: 3 required core courses
(concurrent or in sequence); 1 required elective course;
1 required practicum course
Note*
BUSMHR 2500 Entrepreneurship
is no longer required in the minor
but is an excellent introduction to
entrepreneurship and innovation and
is recommended for students with less
business acumen and is an approved
GEC social science course.