This event is organized by U of T's Acceleration Consortium.
Presented both in-person and online, this seminar will be led by Erin L. Scott, Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. The seminar will focus on entrepreneurial strategy for deep tech commercialization. We welcome U of T staff, students, and community members to attend.
Date: January 23, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Erin L. Scott
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Location: HYBRID
Virtual: Zoom
In-Person: Rotman School of Management 105 St. George St
Abstract:
Strategy for Startups: Translating Ideas to Impact
Good ideas have multiple paths to success. How can innovators and entrepreneurs weigh alternative options and confidently make choices to position their technological development and ventures for competitive advantage? We introduce a choice-oriented approach to entrepreneurship that provides novel and direct insights into the central strategic dilemmas facing innovation-based entrepreneurs. Specifically, as entrepreneurs explore an idea, they face many alternatives that cannot be pursued at once, and so must adopt (implicitly or explicitly) a process for choice, including the choice of a beachhead customer, the choice of an emerging technological trajectory, the choice of founding team and organization, and the choice of an initial commercialization strategy. We translate this conceptual synthesis into a practical playbook for strategy for startups and a synthetic framework for the process of choosing and then implementing an entrepreneurial strategy.
About the AC Seminar Series:
The Acceleration Consortium (AC) seminar series will explore perspectives on the future of AI for science, present cutting-edge research findings, enable collaborations, and offer training and upskilling opportunities.
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