REMINDER:

APSC541/BAEN506 – Technology Entrepreneurship

Application deadline:  Wednesday Nov 15th (short submission writeup required)
Team Formation (Mandatory evening class, Wed Nov 29th, 6pm-9:30)
January-April 2024 – Course Classes – Wednesdays, 6pm-9:30pm (12 mandatory evening classes)

For complete information:   http://blogs.ubc.ca/baen506apsc541techentrepreneurship/
Questions regarding the course – fraser.pogue@sauder.ubc.ca 

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Tech Entrepreneurship (APSC541/BAEN506) has been running for over 25 years and has facilitated many entrepreneurial ventures and realized numerous successful breakout companies such as DWave, Zymeworks , Barrelwise and Recon Instruments – just to name a few.

This course pairs graduate business and APSC/STEM students to provide an experience-based introduction into the lean start-up process. It is a real-life simulation of the process that founders go through when starting a high-tech company. Students will be faced with the key issues involved in evaluating market opportunities, building a prototype, designing profitable business models, producing a solid business plan, raising capital, addressing legal considerations and developing a winning team. Students will gain the skills and tools to creatively commercialize high-tech research into profitable businesses. Teams will be expected to develop credible pitches that will be made to industry professionals.  

Some of these student companies go on to participate in e@UBC, the Hatch facility for hardware-based startups,  and Creative Destruction Lab. 

The core of the course runs on Wednesday evenings in January and there is one mandatory class that take place on November 29th, dedicated to team formation (6pm-9:30pm).  The course is taught by a team of business and STEM/APSC instructors for a well-rounded business and technical perspective (Fraser Pogue, Paul Cubbon, Robin Coope, and Jon Nakane) and a selection of tech entrepreneurs in the local community.

The course has an application process for admission as it is very competitive with an admission application deadline of November 15th. Further details regarding the course are available at http://blogs.ubc.ca/baen506apsc541techentrepreneurship/

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Jon Nakane, PhD PEng   jon.nakane@ubc.caProgram Director, UBC Integrated EngineeringAssistant Professor of Teaching, UBC Materials EngineeringRm 106A, Frank Forward Bldg, 6350 Stores Rd.  604-822-0794