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Business Development & Ventures Department

The Business Development & Ventures Department trains students to convert research outputs into real market value. Through project-based coursework in IP and patent strategy, licensing-deal design, spin-off company formation, and structuring industry partnerships and public-private collaborations, students carry the experience of having identified lab-stage technologies, shaped them into business models, and led investment and partnership negotiations straight into the job market.

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Field-based Curriculum · 18

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Entrepreneurship Theory & the Function of the Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship Theory & the Function of the Entrepreneur
Students come to understand the entrepreneur as an economic function rather than…
Richard Cantillon
Disruptive Innovation Theory
Disruptive Innovation Theory
Through comparative cases, students learn the recurring pattern of disruptive in…
Clayton Christensen
Diffusion of Innovations
Diffusion of Innovations
Students analyse how innovations spread through social systems using adopter cat…
Everett Rogers
National & Sectoral Innovation Systems
National & Sectoral Innovation Systems
Students learn that national and sectoral innovative performance is an emergent …
Christopher Freeman
Transaction Cost Economics & Firm Boundaries
Transaction Cost Economics & Firm Boundaries
Starting from Coase's question of why firms exist, students learn to analyse mak…
Ronald Coase
Agency Theory & Corporate Governance
Agency Theory & Corporate Governance
This course develops understanding of information asymmetry and incentive alignm…
Michael Jensen
Resource-Based View & Theory of Firm Growth
Resource-Based View & Theory of Firm Growth
Students learn to explain persistent performance differences from firms' interna…
Edith Penrose
Industrial Organization & Entry Barriers
Industrial Organization & Entry Barriers
Centred on entry barriers, this course teaches how market structure governs firm…
Joe S. Bain
Economics of Intellectual Property & Patents
Economics of Intellectual Property & Patents
Students grasp the trade-off between the non-rivalry of knowledge and exclusion …
Fritz Machlup
Technology Transfer & the Economics of R&D
Technology Transfer & the Economics of R&D
Students learn the methodology of measuring how R&D investment converts into pro…
Zvi Griliches
Venture Capital & Innovation Finance
Venture Capital & Innovation Finance
Students learn the institutional architecture of venture capital — limited partn…
Georges Doriot
Real Options & Valuation of Ventures Under Uncertainty
Real Options & Valuation of Ventures Under Uncertainty
By valuing investment flexibility as options, students learn to analyse staged, …
Fischer Black
Marketing Strategy & Customer Discovery
Marketing Strategy & Customer Discovery
In the Levitt tradition, students learn to define a business by the customer nee…
Theodore Levitt
Agglomeration Economics & Regional Innovation Clusters
Agglomeration Economics & Regional Innovation Clusters
From Marshall's triad of external economies to modern innovation clusters, stude…
Alfred Marshall
Game Theory in Business Strategy & Negotiation
Game Theory in Business Strategy & Negotiation
Applying Nash equilibrium and backward induction to competition, bargaining and …
Reinhard Selten
Strategic Management & Business Model Design
Strategic Management & Business Model Design
Through case discussion and model-design practice, students develop the strategi…
Igor Ansoff
Management Consulting & Industry-Academia Collaboration
Management Consulting & Industry-Academia Collaboration
Students learn how consulting intermediates knowledge and how academia–industry …
Arthur Dehon Little
Business Valuation & Investment Due Diligence
Business Valuation & Investment Due Diligence
In the Graham–Dodd tradition, students learn intrinsic-value estimation and marg…
Benjamin Graham