1 Semester Unit 

This course is about the foresight and the strategic actions needed to bring technological opportunities to commercialization. Topics covered in the course are: sourcing the next set of technological opportunities, situating technology in a complex world, and managing the uncertainties and risks of investment and deployment. The course develop insights about the strategy of technology entrepreneurship, using cases to show why new ventures can fail as well as succeed.  It examines the ongoing interplay between broad societal trends, political and economic changes, pressing global problems, and technology.