开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 6 weeks
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所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 商业与管理学 大学或机构: Case Western Reserve University（凯斯西储大学） 授课老师： Michael Goldberg |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/entpecon
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The path for entrepreneurs to grow their companies outside of well-developed entrepreneurial ecosystems like Silicon Valley is challenging. Most markets around the world do not look like Silicon Valley, and they never will. But there are other models
to support new businesses. In transitioning markets (where entrepreneurs do not have much access to private sector financing), government officials, donors, and business leaders are experimenting with creative approaches to support the growth of entrepreneurs.
Northeast Ohio, whose largest city is Cleveland, is one such community. During our time together in this course, we will be exploring some of these innovative approaches.
A massive intervention of government and donor resources in Northeast Ohio has been in place for over ten years. In that time, Northeast Ohio has experienced success (including job creation and follow-on funding) with alternative methods of financing
startups, but it has not been easy. Yes, some progress has been made, but whether or not they've hit on ultimate success has yet to be determined. A dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem takes many years, even decades, to develop. Government officials
and donors typically are looking for shorter term success with their support programs which makes long-term support for entrepreneurship challenging.
During this course, we will hear from entrepreneurs who have launched products and services ranging from medical devices to LED lights to whiskey. You will learn how these entrepreneurs engaged with resources made available to them through a variety of
programs and intermediary organizations. We have chosen to talk with many business people that are still in the process of developing their companies and whose ultimate success or failure is still to be determined.
One of our goals is to learn from you how different communities around the world are approaching about implementing strategies and methods to support businesses. Taking what we've learned from our examples in class, I will ask you to reflect on how to
best grow entrepreneurship where you live. I am excited to use this global platform to create a dialogue where information flows in multiple directions.
Most MOOCs rebroadcast professors’ lectures, but this course will be different. Don’t expect to see me standing in front of the camera, talking and lecturing every week. Instead, the lectures will be relatively short in length (8-10 minutes) and
will have more of the feel of an engaging documentary than a static classroom setting. We will also be providing you with opportunities for live engagement with the featured entrepreneurs and thought leaders through a number of interactive sessions during the course.
Each session, we will feature a different entrepreneur from Northeast Ohio and look at how government and donor organizations combined with private investment to help them grow their companies. We will examine why the various programs and organizations were put in place to support entrepreneurs, how the success of these initiatives are measured, and where there are challenges. We will also provide a different perspectives from international entrepreneurs and thought leaders who will compare and contrast their experience on a particular topic with their counterparts in Northeast Ohio. We will cover the following topics during the course:
Explore how communities in transitioning economies around the world are working to enable the growth of entrepreneurship when the resources from the private sector alone are limited.
