1) Course overview. 2) What is entrepreneurship? 3) How are research and commercialization related? 4) The entrepreneurial mind set. 5) What it takes to start a startup. 6) Concept development and validation. 7) Defining expectations and getting started. 8) The process from ideas to exit – idea and execution. 9) Sample ideas/pitch and discussion. 10) Key issues to consider. 11) The importance of execution and the key steps involved. 12) The roles of experience and learning.