Annually, we reach out with the goal of promoting a truly practical, experiential and real-world course focused on technology entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n
Tech Entrepreneurship (APSC541\/BAEN506)<\/strong>\u00a0has been running for over 25 years and has facilitated many entrepreneurial ventures and realized numerous successful breakout companies such as\u00a0DWave<\/a>,\u00a0Zymeworks<\/a>, Barrelwise<\/a>\u00a0and Recon Instruments<\/a>\u00a0– just to name a few. \u00a0 This course pairs graduate business and APSC\/STEM students to provide an experience-based introduction into the lean start-up\u00a0process. 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\u00a0prototype, 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. \u00a0Some of these student companies go on to participate\u00a0in\u00a0e@UBC<\/a>,\u00a0the Hatch<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Creative Destruction Lab<\/a>.\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n While the course normally runs from November-April, this year due to COVID delays, the schedule is offset \u2013 which may benefit some students<\/em><\/strong>. The core of the course runs on Wednesday evenings from September to December; and there are 3 critical and mandatory preliminary classes that take place in May dedicated to team formation (May 12, 19 and 26 \u2013 6pm).\u00a0 The course is taught by a team of business and STEM\/APSC instructors for a well-rounded business and technical perspective.<\/p>\n The course has an\u00a0application process for admission as it is very competitive with an early admission application deadline of April 4th<\/sup> and a final application deadline of May 4th<\/sup>. Further details regarding the course are available at\u00a0https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/baen506apsc541techentrepreneurship\/<\/a><\/p>\n We have had strong interest from your faculty in the past, and would greatly appreciate your support to promote the course amongst your graduate students<\/u><\/strong>. \u00a0Please let us know if you can email your graduate students, and\/or include this information in your newsletter or weekly communications.<\/p>\n To further support this message, we would be pleased to arrange an info session at a time that is convenient for your faculty – to hear from course\u00a0lecturers, former students and\/or now successful entrepreneurs\u00a0who participated in the course.<\/p>\n Please let us know how we can support your promotion of this course, and feel free to contact us should you require any further information. \u00a0We will follow-up by phone in the near future.<\/p>\n Warmest Regards<\/p>\n