FROM IDEATION TO COMMERCIALIZATION: Taking your ideas to marketToday’s increasingly dynamic and competitive world requires students of all types to develop a thorough understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation. The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Minor recognizes that everyone is creative and has the ability to develop critical thinking skills that address problems of global dimension.

The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Minor provides undergraduate students from multiple disciplines and majors with a core understanding of how to develop a new start-up business or create new products and services within an existing enterprise. Students completing the minor will possess the ability to apply critical thinking skills and cross-disciplinary, collaborative problem solving in the creation of successful new ventures, products and services.

The new minor features:

• Fourtypesofentrepreneurship:start-upbasedentrepreneurship,corporate intra-preneurship, technology commercialization and socialentrepreneurship

• Infusionofcriticalthinkingskillsandcreativeproblemsolving• Trans-disciplinarycollaborationsandproject-basedexperientiallearning

The Curriculum Framework

The minor curriculum is based on a framework that combines theories, tools and practices of entrepreneurship and innovation that progresses from initial ideation through commercialization in three distinct phases.

The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Minor combines course content from multiple fields to create a program of study applicable to a wide array of students majoring in:

business

design

engineering

agricultural business

food science

health sciences

nursing

medicine

sciences

arts

humanities

political science

public affairs

hospitality management

Visit go.osu.edu/eminor to learn more.

Contact your academic advisor if you are currently enrolled in courses in the entrepreneurship minor program.

FOR SPRING 2015: ANNOUNCING THE NEW ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION MINOR

CREATION CAPTURE DELIVERY

IDEATION COMMERCIALIZATION

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION MINOR

THE E&I MINOR COURSE WORK HAS THREE REQUIRED COMPONENTS

STEP 2REQUIRED ELECTIVE COURSES

Choose one, 3 credits

Prerequisite: successful completion of all three required core courses

STEP ONE3 REQUIRED, CORE COURSES

Prerequisite: none to begin minor

One each from business, design and engineering

Can be taken concurrently

STEP 3REQUIRED PRACTICUM

Choose one, 3 credits

Prerequisite: successful completion of required elective course

BUSMHR 3510.01: NEW VENTURE

CREATION3 credits

BUSADM 3531:START-UP

ENTREPRENEURSHIP3 credits

OR OR OR

BUSADM 4510:E&I PRACTICUM

3 credits

MECHENG 5682 /MECHENG 5194*:

FUNDAMENTALS OF PRODUCT DESIGN

4 or 3 credits

DESIGN 2700:INTRO TO DESIGN

PRACTICE3 credits

BUSADM 3532:CORPORATE

INTRE-PRENEURSHIP3 credits

BUSADM 3533:TECHNOLOGY

COMMERCIALIZATION3 credits

BUSMHR 5530:SOCIAL

ENTREPRENEURSHIP3 credits

Entrepreneurship & Innovation Minor Overview

• 15-16creditstotal• Begininyoursophomoreyear• Canbecompletedin4semesters• Coursesmustbetakensequentially:3requiredcorecourses

(concurrentorinsequence);1requiredelectivecourse;1requiredpracticumcourse

Note:BUSMHR 2500 Entrepreneurship is no longer required in the minor but is an excellent introduction to entrepreneurship and innovation and is recommended for students with less business acumen and is an approved GEC social science course.

*For Spring 2016, all non-engineers should take MECHENG 5194 (Abell).