ACC 600 Asian-Pacific Entrepreneurship (3)

Selected topics in international management and industrial relations.

Pre: consent.

This course is a seminar for graduate students in which we pursue a series of topics related to entrepreneurship and innovation as they relate to the Asian Pacific region. Our focus includes issues surrounding the creation of growth-oriented, innovative ventures in Asian Pacific environments, both by U.S. entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs from within Asian Pacific countries. You will be encouraged to discover and develop your own entrepreneurial potential. While this is not a course in how to start your own business, emphasis will be placed on a number of issues involved in conceptualizing, starting and growing a new venture within the Asian Pacific context. The course is designed to reflect the multi-disciplinary nature of entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship in an Asian-Pacific context. The subjects we will jointly investigate and discuss concern the determination of what entrepreneurship is and is not, the forms it takes in Asian Pacific countries, as well as the characteristics of and types of entrepreneurs, the pre-requisites for entrepreneurship, the unique challenges to entrepreneurship in various Asian Pacific countries, linkages of entrepreneurship to unique aspects of technology, creativity, economics, marketing, human resources, finance, organizational theory and other disciplines within an Asian Pacific context, and tools and concepts for facilitating the entrepreneurial process in the Asian Pacific environment. The course will stress the fundamental changes taking place in the structure of global society as they relate to innovation and entrepreneurship. This will be a course of many ideas and questions, but few cut-and-dried answers. You will be challenged to come up with your own positions on these questions. A central focus of the course will be a series of in-depth cases dealing with actual entrepreneurial ventures, and the creation of a business model for an original concept that could be implemented in the Asian Pacific region.