Msc: Informatics Entrepreneurship 1

Opportunity Identification and Assessment

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Important Information about the course

WHAT: Informatics Entrepreneurship 1 Course .

WHERE: All classes will be held in Appleton Tower, 2.12.

WHEN:All classes are on Wednesdays and start at 11:10 and end at 13:00. The official Informatics timetable is here.

QUESTIONS:all questions about the course's schedule and requirements may be directed to Mike Clouser (urgent difficulties may be directed to the Informatics Teaching Organisation)

ARE YOU REGISTERED? If you intend to attend the course for credit, you need to be registered with the Informatics Teaching Office. If you are not taking the course for credit, you still need to register your intention to attend with the ITO. Class enrollment list is here.

Course schedule:

Session	Date	Topic	Venue	Assignments Due
1	Wednesday 22 September 2010 11.10-13.00	Introduction to Informatics Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship in Scotland Lecturer: Michael Clouser	AT 2.12
2	Thursday 23 September 2010 18.00-21.00	Entrepreneurial Finance Guest Speaker: Ann Winblad, Venture Capitalist with Hummer Winblad Partners	Business School LT1
3	Wednesday 29 September 2010 11.10-13.00	Opportunity Discovery, Creativity and Confidence Guest Lecturer: Ian Ritchie	AT 2.12
4	Wednesday 29 September 18.00-21.00	Negotiation Workshop Workshop Facilitator: Michael Clouser	TBD
5	Wednesday 06 October 2010 11.10-13.00	Opportunity Assessment Lecturer: Michael Clouser	AT 2.12
Tutorial	TBD	Michael Clouser	TBD
6	Wednesday 13 October 2010 11.10-13.00	Introduction to Marketing and the Global Marketplace Guest Lecturer: Heleen Kist	AT 2.12
7	Wednesday 3 November 2010 11.10-13.00	Entrepreneurship and You Guest Lecturer: Jesse Draper	AT 2.12
8	Wednesday 10 November 2010 11.10-13.00	Intellectual Property Guest Lecturer: Chris Martin	AT 2.12
9	Wednesday 17 November 2010 11.00-13.00 Last session for Autumn	Building a Network Guest Lecturer: Heidi Roizen	AT 2.12
Assignment 1	Wednesday 03 November 2010 by 10.00			Case Study 1 Due by 10.00 to ITO in AT
Assignment 2	Wednesday 17 November 2010 by 10.00			Case Study 2 Due by 10.00 to ITO in AT
Assignment 3	Tuesday 11 January 2011			Opportunity Assessment Due by 10.00 to ITO in AT

Tutorial:

A two hour tutorial is required attendance, and will cover two areas:
- 1) Writing-up your case study
- 2) Researching and writing an Opportunity Assessment
The tutorial will be held in week 3. The time, date and place are yet-to-be-determined.
The Tutor will hold two hours of office hours per week. Unless noted otherwise, these will be held from 11.00-13.00 on Tuesdays in the commercialisation offices in Appleton Tower, 8th Floor, Room 811

Reading List: Official course reading lists are here.

Events:

To be added later

News and Announcements:

Assignments
Students write 2 case studies (30% each) and an opportunity assessment (40%). The course sessions cover issues and techniques in the analysis and development of high growth, high technology business opportunities in the Informatics area, which are applied to the study of cases of real business successes and failures. The case studies will be developed in hands-on project work. The students will build insights and skills for the development of an opportunity assessment within a theoretical framework. The Opportunity Assessment report will be assessed on the basis of the quality of its documentation, research and analysis. IE2 will give students the opportunity to move their ideas forward in terms of business plan development.
Word Limits
Case study write-up 1: 1000 words or prototype
Case study write-up 2: 1000 words or prototype
Opportunity Assessment: 2000 words

A 10% penalty will be applied to each 100 words over the Word limit above University policy of 10%.
Due Date
Case study write-up 1: Due to the ITO, Appleton Tower by 10.00 on Wednesday 03 November 2010. Marked assignments will be returned to ITO by Wednesday 17th of November 2010.
Case study write-up 2: Due to the ITO, Appleton Tower by 10.00 on Wednesday 17 November 2010. Marked assignments will be returned to ITO by Wednesday 1st of December 2010.
Opportunity Assessment: Due to the ITO, Appleton Tower by 10.00 on Tuesday 11 January 2011. Marked assignments will be returned to ITO by Tuesday 25th of January 2010.
Per Informatics policy, no late submissions will be accepted. We recommend that you turn in your assignments by 12 Noon on the due date if possible.
The student representatives for the course are:
TBD

Updated September 20, 2010
John Lee, for Mike Clouser

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