Does the management of research & development play an important role in your company’s success? Is innovation important? Are you under pressure to launch successful new products or services? Is corporate entrepreneurship / intrapreneurship in your future?
Our TICE programs are designed from the ground up to equip you or your people with the knowledge, skills, and mindset to successfully lead your company’s initiatives in those very areas. We offer focused masters degree and non-degree certificate programs with concentrations in:
- R&D Innovation & Management
- New Product & Services Innovation & Development
- Corporate Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Technology Startups & Entrepreneurship
- Advising Innovators & Entrepreneurs
Masters degree students select their concentration and take two sets of courses: foundation courses that are common to all five concentrations, and concentration-specific courses. Students who pursue a non-degree certificate take the specialized courses listed below. They have the option of applying their coursework to the corresponding masters degree if they decide to continue their education.
R & D Innovation & Management
Target Audience: R & D managers
- Managing research & development
- Innovation process management
- Project strategy & value management
- Intellectual property protection & strategy
- Three electives from HSTM, SES or SSE, with advisor approval
New Product & Services Innovation & Development
Target Audience: New product / innovation managers
- Innovation process management
- Services development
- Integrated product development I
- Technology commercialization practicum
- Three electives from HSTM, SES or SSE, with advisor approval
Corporate Entrepreneurship& Innovation
Target Audience:Intrapreneurs starting new businesses within existing companies
- Leading entrepreneurial organizations
- Corporate entrepreneurship
- Intellectual property protection & strategy
- Technology commercialization practicum
- Three electives from HSTM, SES or SSE, with advisor approval
Technology Startups & Entrepreneurship
Target Audience: Entrepreneurs starting companies
- New business ventures
- Intellectual property protection & strategy
- Business law for startups
- Technology commercialization practicum
- Three electives from HSTM, SES or SSE, with advisor approval
Advising Innovators & Entrepreneurs
Target Audience: Advisors & consultants such as attorneys and accountants
- New business ventures
- Intellectual property protection & strategy
- Innovation process management
- Technology commercialization practicum
- Three electives from HSTM, SES or SSE, with advisor approval
- Competitive business strategy (1st course taken by all students: degree & certificate)
- Accounting, budgeting & financial analysis
- Marketing of innovations & early-stage technologies
- Disruptive technologies: identification, screening & assessment
- Technology & innovation strategy capstone (last course taken by degree students)
There is a 4-course certificate program that corresponds to each concentration.
R & D Innovation & Management
- Competitive business strategy
- Managing research & development
- Innovation process management
- Project strategy & value management
New Product & Services Innovation & Development
- Competitive business strategy
- Innovation process management
- Services development
- Integrated product development I
Corporate Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Competitive business strategy
- Leading entrepreneurial organizations
- Corporate entrepreneurship
- Intellectual property protection & strategy
Technology Startups & Entrepreneurship
- Competitive business strategy
- New business ventures
- Intellectual property protection & strategy
- Business law for startups
Advising Innovators & Entrepreneurs
- Competitive business strategy
- New business ventures
- Intellectual property protection & strategy
- Innovation process management
