Students incorporate business, engineering, and telecommunications to gain insight on technology management issues in class activities and on field projects teams. The unique relationship between the business school and the University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office's Student Technology Licensing Program enables students to secure rights on university technology patents. This provides students with the opportunity to assess the potential of a prospective business and gives them the option to secure a full licensing agreement. Competing with Information Technology and the Internet Focuses on an understanding of the skills, tools, business concepts, and strategic and entrepreneurial opportunities, as well as managerial and social issues that surround the global information infrastructure and the emergence of electronic commerce. Centers on the management of information as a resource and on the identification of opportunities to exploit its potential for competitive advantage, with particular emphasis on the role of the Internet.
Topics vary from one semester to the next.
Marketing of Technology and Innovation Exposes students to the uniqueness and unpredictability of marketing issues in high technology industries. Business Process Design Covers the methods and means by which firms add value and compete by designing key processes. Emphasizes operational planning as an important element of business process design. A graphical object-based computer simulation package is used to model and design business processes and to predict the effect of changes. Managing Process Technology Examines the critical role of technological process innovation in the global competitiveness of the firm.