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Entrepreneurship |
| Charge teacher |
,Youichirou Maekawa |
| Lectures target |
1st,2nd,3rd |
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Course time |
the former term |
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Unit classification |
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| Lecture form |
general lecture |
Unit Count |
2 |
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Course Objective and Outline
After the collapse of the bubble economy in 1980’s, many policies and schemes have been formulated and carried out in Japan. Encouraging entrepreneurs is one of the most hopeful policies and has become the focus of recent attention. The policy aims to encourage setting up a business by each individual entrepreneur, also to reform organization in some enterprises suffering from so-called “large company sickness,” to activate ventures produced by university researchers, and to contribute strategic management of technology as a national policy. We focus on this hot issue on entrepreneurship to clarify the significance and the assignments of it in current Japan. The class presents basic knowledge and analyzing measure to discuss about how to solve the problems.
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Syllabus
In this class, we have some guests on business and incubation. The detailed time schedule is changeable depending on the guests, but the framework of the whole class is as follows.
1. Introduction
First of all, we discuss why we need to think about the significance of entrepreneurship and what kind of problems we are facing now. The lecturer, who was originally an engineer, presents his own experience on setting up a business by using his technology to clarify the current problems on entrepreneurship in Japan.
2. Leaning from the arguments on “the lost 10 years in Japan”---think about the harder competition in the international business circumstances.
After the collapse of the bubble economy in 1980’s, many policies and schemes have been formulated and carried out to encourage the weakened international competence of Japan and to recover from the economical recession. The Japanese semiconductor industry is one of the good examples that we should/can learn from the arguments on the bad manners and strategies in that period. The arguments also indicate the current problems on entrepreneurship in Japan.
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3. History and current issue on entrepreneurship in the U.S.A.
On the other hand, the US economy was dull in 1980’s when Japan was most brilliant with the bubble economy, although the US had been the most successful capitalism country in the world. However, they achieved a drastic recovery to return to the highest position in the international economy after 1990’s. We search the roots and history of entrepreneurship in the US to discuss about the role of it in the US economy.
4. History and current issue on entrepreneurship in Japan
In comparison with the entrepreneurship in the U.S.A., the characteristics and the history of that in Japan is discussed. Particularly, the current status on venture projects inside enterprises and spin-out ventures is discussed to think about the circumstances, manners, and processes on entrepreneurship in Japan.
5. Methodology to overcome “the valley of death”
Unfortunately many technical seeds in Japan can hardly produce a business success. This fact is pointed out as one of the reasons why Japanese economy has been so stagnated. The problem is also considered as a common issue on technology management for many other countries, as so-called “the valley of death.” We search the methods how to overcome this valley in many firms in many countries to wrap up the methodology to jump over this gap.
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6. What is an entrepreneur? ---Innovation and entrepreneurship
We think about innovation to bring us business success and characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, by looking at some cases. We also think about what we should take account of in order to combine innovation with a business success.
7. Analysis and evaluation on entrepreneurship
It is important to analyze and evaluate the past cases of setting up businesses for aiming a success of our own cases. We learn how to analyze and evaluate the cases in that sense.
8. Learning from some actual entrepreneurs---entrepreneurship as a real experience
We have some guests of entrepreneurs who have real experiences of setting up a business, to hear their talk on their precious experience, to interview them on some questions, and to discuss with them about their business experience. After that, the students are requested to submit a report to analyze and evaluate the above-mentioned cases by using all of the knowledge and the methods we learned in the class.
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Text book:
Makoto Hirano, “A Manual to start up business for engineers,” Sohfuhkan publish corporation. All students are required to read this reference in advance.
References:
Makoto Hirano, "Value Creation Enterprises in Regions," Maruzen Shyuppan.
Grading:
50%: participation and contribution in the class discussion
50%: report on entrepreneurship
Evaluation:
F: scored less than 59
C: scored in the range of 60-69.
B: scored in the range of 70-79.
A: scored in the range of 80-89.
AA: scored more than 90
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