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Spring 2017
BA 5322: Technology Commercialization
STEM - RESOURCE SITE
Instructor: Dr. Ron Mitchell

Welcome to BA 5322: STEM MBA - Technology Commercialization, Spring, 2017

- Below you will find access to course materials and other resources that are designed to rapidly enhance your expertise in specific skill areas.

- Please download the documents as you need them; and please also let me know if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions.

(PLEASE NOTE: I am providing this website to (hopefully) speed up your access to class resources; and also to make it possible for you to have access to these resources for a longer period of time beyond the conclusion of this class, than is presently allowed by the current TTU Class website retention policy. Please let me know if I may further help in making effective access to course materials possible for you.)

FINAL EXAM, SCHOLARLY REFERENCE ARTICLES, AND TSM for "Ultraprivate Smartphones" (for FINAL EXAM Questions C, D and E):

BA 5322 TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAM

C. Organizing creativity: Lessons from the Eureka! Ranch experience

D. Opportunity Creation, Underlying Conditions and Economic Exchange

E.Strategizing, Economizing, and Economic Organization

TSM for "Ultraprivate Smartphones" as it was completed in class 4-25-17 for use in Part 3 of Questions C, D and E.

A. Course Documents:



• Course Syllabus Spring 2017
  
  
• Map of the Course
  
  
• Map of the Course Powerpoint
  
  
• Classes 1-14 - Transaction Solutions: Transaction Analysis Worksheet
  
  
• Critical "Thinking Fundamentals" Reading (for multiple classes)
  
  
• Reading on Intellectual Property (IP)
  
  
• Class 8: Required Reading (for helpful background)
  
  

  B. Additional Class Resources
  
  

• Business Plan Boilerplate: One model of a business plan for use to cut and paste
  
  
• Business Plan Development Guide: Your Resource Guide for preparing a business plan
  
  
• Diagram of the stage and gate commercialization technique
  
  
• The Stakeholder Salience Article Resource Reading for those who are interested
  
  
• The NVT Rating Form
  
  

  C. Specific Class Resources:
  
  

  Class 1:

• Class 1 PowerPoints: Conceptual Foundations - The Transaction Solutions Approach to Technology Commercialization
  
  
• Class 1 Chapter 7 Reading for Class 2 Quiz: Venture Analytics
  
  
• Class 1 Transaction Solutions: Transaction Analysis Worksheet
  
  
• Class 1 Transaction Solutions Worksheet (TSW) Assignment Explanation
  
  
• Class 1 Practice Technology 1 (T1W) Agricultural Drones
  
  

  Class 2:

• Class 2 PowerPoints: The "Unrelated Novelty Method"
  
  
• Class 2 Creativity Reading: "Unleash Ideas" for Class 2 Quiz
  
  
• Class 2 Possible Pictures for Unrelated Novelty Visual Stimulus
  
  
• Class 2 Concept Writing Techniques Handout
  
  
• Class 2 Example of how to and how NOT to write a product concept
  
  
• Class 2 UNRELATED NOVELTY ASSIGNMENTS 1(a) and 1(b) (STEP-BY-STEP)
  
  
  
• Supplemental: Dr. Jeff Stamp: Unrelated Novely Explanation Part A
  
  
• Supplemental: Dr. Jeff Stamp: Unrelated Novely Explanation Part B - Mindmapping Example
  
  
• Class 2 Practice Technology 2 (T2W) Ultraprivate Smartphones
  
  

  Class 3:

• Class 3 UNRELATED NOVELTY ASSIGNMENTS 1(a) and 1(b) (STEP-BY-STEP)
  
  
• Class 3 Group Unrelated Novelty, Product Concept, and 3-laws Analysis Form
  
  
• Class 3 Practice Technology 2 (T2W) Ultraprivate Smartphones - continued
  
  

  Class 4:

• Class 4: NVT Introductory PowerPoint Slides
  
  
• Class 4: Access to NVT e-coaching Lectures:
  

  e-Lecture 1 - Innovation

  e-Lecture 2 - Value

  e-Lecture 3 - Persistence

  e-Lecture 4 - Scarcity

  e-Lecture 5 - Non-appropriability

  e-Lecture 6 - Flexibility
  
  

• Class 4: NVT e-coaching Lecture OVERHEADS (as they appear in the videos):
  
  e-Lecture 1: Innovation
  e-Lecture 2: Value
  e-Lecture 3: Persistence
  e-Lecture 4: Scarcity
  e-Lecture 5: Non appropriability
  e-Lecture 6: Flexibility
  
  

• Class 4: Access the NVT Website
  
  
• Class 4: A-2 (a) and 2 (b) NVT Practice Case Presentations Assignments (updated 03-29-17)
  
  
• Class 4: Practice Technology 3 (T3W) Brain Mapping
  
  

  Classes 5-6:

• Class 5: A-2 (a) and 2 (b) NVT Practice Case Presentations Assignments (updated 03-29-17)
  
  
• Class 5: Practice Technology 4 (T4W) Neuromorphic Chips
  
  
• Class 5: Practice Technology 5 (T5W) Genome Editing
  
  
• Class 6: Practice Technology 6 (T6W) Mobile Collaboration
  
  

  Class 7:

• Class 6: Money & Debt vs. Equity Financing Class PowerPoint
  
  
• Class 6-7: Equity Growth Analysis Examples: Worksheets that demonstrate value growth through levels of financing
  
  

  Classes 8-9:

• Class 8: Constraints Analysis Class - Intro PowerPoint
  
  
• Class 8: Supplemental Reading (Background)
  
  
• Class 8: MM Company Examples of Situation Statements, CRT, and FRT
  
  
• Class 8: Possible Opportunity List Blank
  
  
• Class 8: ASSIGNMENT 3a+3b--Constraints Analysis Practice Case Presentations
  
  

  Class 10:

• Class 14: Zig Ziglar Selling Skills: Summary of Ziglar's sales training book
  
  
• Class 14: CONSULTING SALES SCRIPT EXAMPLE: Dr. Mitchell's sure fire way to land a consulting engagement
  
  

  Classes 11-14:

• Classes 10-13: ASSIGNMENT 4 - Personal Project Commercialization Assignment
  
  
• Possible Technology 1 - For: Personal Project Commercialization Assignment, A4-A
  
  
• Possible Technology 2 - For: Personal Project Commercialization Assignment, A4-A
  
  
• Possible Technology 3 - For: Personal Project Commercialization Assignment, A4-A
  
  
• Possible Technology 4 - For: Personal Project Commercialization Assignment, A4-A
  
  
• Possible Technology 5 - For: Personal Project Commercialization Assignment, A4-A
  
  
• Possible Technology 6 - For: Personal Project Commercialization Assignment, A4-A
  
  
• Possible Technology 7 - For: Personal Project Commercialization Assignment, A4-A
  
  
• Possible Technology 8 - For: Personal Project Commercialization Assignment, A4-A