Comments (0) FYI, we have made a few updates to the schedule shown on the syllabus, and have posted an updated version of the syllabus with those changes. The most important are as follows:
2/23 – We will not have the Business Reference Librarian come again. Maybe when most of the groups are further along in their business concepts.
3/9 – IP Attorney, Harold Slawik will speak
Although most early entrants did not fare well, I enjoyed the exercise and hope you did too. A number of concepts were illustrated in class and we will cover many of these in our next two classes. First movers do not necessarily win. Surprisingly, the team with fewest members won….We will go into more depth about some of these concepts but doing it practically in class is a lot of fun. Here are some pictures. I apologize for the low technology black and white pics….
Testing stability
Reaching new heights...
A good idea..for the short term?
For those interested in green technologies, government incentives and opportunities in this area. Watch the webcast at the www.kauffman.org
“Spurring Business Startups and Innovation in Clean Technology”
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. EST
To view webcast go to: www.kauffman.org/NGA
Updates to websites
1. I posted slides from the yesterday under Readings and Discussion/Module – Communication.
2. I added the Industry Creation Report under assignments. The grading rubric that we will use is listed there, along with the pairings. The industry creation signup tab was taken off the webpage.
Next class:
No reading for next class. We will have a quiz on the the first two modules. The final two groups will present their business concepts. We will begin discussion of the Module on Technology and Markets, and have a tinkertoy activity to illustrate this.
Speaking of futurists and future technology trajectories, here is what a few futurists are thinking about in terms of what our world will look like in 20-50 years.
http://mashable.com/2009/08/20/ted-future/
You need to select the industry on which you will write your industry creation report today by midnight. These reports are scheduled to be due on March 2nd, which is coming up fast. As I wrote in my e-mail, when you select your industry, write down a sentence explaining how this industry is defined.
When we talked about shifts in class, we usually think of changes in regulation like what happened in 2000 with the switching off of degraded signal feature in GPS systems. This allowed GPS signals to be accurate to less than 12 mts potentially spawning a number of location based services industries (hint for the assignment ?) from (PND: Portable navigation devices used in cars or handheld) to location based gaming systems. But there can be other ones and some of them might have a slow buildup until there is a tipping point. If you have seen AVATAR, you will be able to visualize the possibilities this is going to throw up. So say we believed that this was truly a shift in what we do, can we think of opportunities arising from this…..
Check out this link on Cnet. http://ces.cnet.com/8301-19167_1-10142957-100.html
This article from the economist discusses whether business processes should be patentable. It has a good discussion of the purposes for patents and whether they actually serve those intended purposes.
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15479680
I have posted the projects that have been presented in class on the page “Project Team Selection”. Please log on to the site and post your top three preferences in a comment. You will need to be proactive about searching to find a group. We are not going to assign groups. Once you have a group formed (no more than 4 students), please tell us and we will record this.
I have also posted the reading for Thursday. This reading is particularly important for those who plan to work in a tech startup that is based on technology connected with universities.
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