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Figure 5: Assessing the course format and benefits for attendees.
5. Conclusions
As a summary, the Chemical Entrepreneurship course has been well received. The
pioneered curriculum attracted a broad variety of attendees from scientific and
engineering disciplines, age and experience and may serve as a new model for
teaching technology entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in an integrated fashion
based on a systems-, process- and intelligence-oriented theoretical framework. Rather
than educating “about” entrepreneurship and enterprise the current “Theory-to-
Practice” curriculum aims at educating “for” (technology) entrepreneurship including
training of “soft” skills, such as presentation skills.
Finally, the extension of the scope of the entrepreneurship curriculum in several
dimensions demonstrates how it can be interwoven with business research and
practice, in particular, with technology innovation management, research and
intelligence and thus can contribute to corresponding areas of research and practice
(Davidsson 2002). In this regard, for the chemistry-related fields (chemical)
entrepreneurship may be viewed as an intrinsic part of “Chemical Business
Engineering” 12 .
Acknowledgements
Sponsoring to establish the Chemical Entrepreneurship course by BASF, Evonik
Industries and von Hoerner & Sulger (vH&S) through financial support and/or
participation through guest speakers is gratefully acknowledged.
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