UW Launches Ph.D.
in Technology Entrepreneurship
The UW Business School has a new legacy
challenge: technology entrepreneurship. Recognizing the high faculty
vacancy rate in entrepreneurship – 20 to 25 percent nationwide
– the Center for Technology Entrepreneurship (CTE) has created
a Ph.D. program largely to help develop faculty for programs across
the world. The degree – the first of its kind in the nation –
will be administered and granted by the Business School and the CTE.
The program is open to candidates from
the Business School as well as to science and technology students
who are working concurrently in doctoral programs in the College of
Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering, and the School of Medicine.
Faculty from departments across campus will form a core group for
the program. Professors from the Business School include specialists
in strategy, marketing, management, finance, and operations. Areas
of expertise represented by the science and technology programs include
engineering, bioengineering, nanotechnology, photonics, and chemistry.
Additionally, key members of the School of Law will join the program,
too. As a team the faculty addresses the critical areas of research
and education in technology development, technology assessment, and
new-venture creation.
In addition to three new core curriculum
courses – Venture Creation Practicum; Technology, Innovation,
and Entrepreneurship; and Theoretical Foundations of Entrepreneurship
– the program incorporates nine existing courses in management,
marketing, economics and finance as choices for additional study.
For doctoral students from departments outside the Business School,
the program provides a second major and a minor that will allow them
to add a technology entrepreneurship focus to their science or engineering
Ph.D.
The new program combines best-of-breed
graduate education services from across campus for this unique offering.
In September 2001 Technology Review published a university
research scorecard which listed the UW sixth
in technological strength based on number of patents owned, and fifth
in "tech transfer riches," representing the revenue generated
by licensing those patents. The University as a whole topped U.S.
News & World Report’s national rankings for 2001 in primary-care
medicine, pediatrics, nursing, internal medicine, microbiology, computer
science (including artificial intelligence and graphics/user interaction),
bioengineering and biomedical, engineering, nuclear physics, atomic/molecular
physics, and the biological sciences.
The CTE is also collaborating with several
technology universities in Asia and Europe to produce post-graduate
certificate programs that focus on venture creation and business models
for emerging technologies. The six-week study programs include academic
learning and real-life applications, student and faculty travel, and
corporate visits.
For more information about the program
visit depts.washington.edu/cte/CTE_PhD.htm.
