Arizona State University’s Venture Catalyst in collaboration with ASU’s technology transfer arm, Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE), is launching a new program aimed at creating startup activity in postdoctoral researchers and graduate students.
As opposed to standard academic modules and programs, this part-time program applies a very “pracademic” approach to developing an entrepreneurial mindset and real new venture creation. The program modules are taught by pracademic adjunct faculty from leading external organizations, supplemented by online modules from the ASU Venture Catalyst.
These mini-modules are two or three hours long, depending on the subject matter, and delivered after-hours on the Tempe campus. The program includes additional course materials to allow participants to work on their ideas outside of class. As new venture creation and founder team formation is a core objective of the program, networking sessions among the participants will occur throughout the program.
This new program is offered free to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. It is based on a successful similar program that Gordon McConnell ran in Dublin City University in Ireland where out of the first cohort of seventeen young researchers, two startups were created.
Read the ASU news release here: http://asunews.asu.edu/20110107_rapidstartup
Find more information and registration here: http://www.asuventurecatalyst.org/p/class/VC-Rapid_Startup_Scho