Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship

Technology Realization Program

The Technology Realization Program is campus-wide program for Purdue graduate students that introduces and teaches the principles for moving ideas and technologies emerging from the lab bench out to the marketplace as a viable business opportunity. Open to graduate students regardless of college, the Technology Realization Program aims to help graduate students understand the challenges of managing the development and introduction of new ideas/technologies along with starting and managing new business ventures. Utilizing a variety of functional perspectives, coursework focuses on developing skills relevant to developing new products and processes, introducing innovations, and developing new businesses, both inside existing organizations and as independent startups.

The Technology Realization Program is a flexible program designed to fit graduate student curricula across the Purdue University. The "Seminar" and "Workshop" serve as the two core courses of the program, supplemented by students taking coursework in their own home disciplines. The Seminar (ENTR 500) offered every fall semester presents topics related to technology realization, commercialization, and entrepreneurship through readings, class discussion, and presentations by invited speakers. The Workshop (ENTR 501) offered every spring semester introduces specific methodologies and techniques that students apply through case studies and hands-on class projects. A schematic of the Technology Realization Program is given below.

ENTR Technology Realization Program

1st Year
Fall	Spring
Seminar in Technology Realization Topics ENTR 500	Technology Realization Workshop ENTR 501
2nd year
Fall	Spring
Six Hours of Elective Coursework in the Students' Respective Discipline

For more information, contact Kenneth Kahn, Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship (kbkahn@purdue.edu).