BUS 660 - Corporate Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites, BUS 604, BUS 605, or EMBA 604, EMBA 605. BUS 605, or EMBA 605 may be taken concurrently with the consent of the Associate Director of Graduate Programs. This graduate seminar focuses upon the necessity of creativity and innovation for individual and organizational success in dynamic and competitive environments. The course reviews recent advances in theoretical and applied models of creativity and innovation on different levels of analysis: global innovativeness and competitiveness of nations, industry level analysis of creativity and innovation in high technology sectors with consideration of government support of technology development, organizational level analysis of successful and unsuccessful case illustrations, and individual managerial level of analysis of creativity. Students will be actively engaged as a participant in this seminar with required individual research, experiential exercises, reflection assignments, and group/individual presentations. (Offered every year.) 3 credits