Recognizing some of the unique issues facing emerging technology companies today, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will offer an innovative new bi-coastal program, the Technology Entrepreneurship Internship. Conducting the program simultaneously on both the East and West coasts, a team of Wharton faculty will travel between Silicon Valley and Philadelphia to meet with MBA students in each location one evening per week. The interactive workshop format of the classroom experience will enable the students to share summer work experiences with other students, faculty and practitioners from each Coast's technology venture community.
People always ask whether entrepreneurship can be taught.
Under the leadership of Professor Amit and a team of Wharton faculty, the seven-week course will focus on the exigencies of starting, financing, growing and managing a technology company. Specifically, the course sessions will cover key topics such as cutting edge business models and revenue models, technology development and intellectual property issues, financing approaches, culture and human resources development, and alliance strategies. Drawing on their own work experiences, students will have the opportunity to analyze and address some of these issues in collaboration with other students, professors and executives. The Technology Entrepreneurship Internship will run from early June until late July, coinciding with the beginning stage of student summer internships. Wharton was the first school to develop a fully integrated curriculum of entrepreneurial studies in 1973.