Award winning Global Entrepreneurship Exchange (GE2) announces Indian Higher Education Institutions Faculty Workshops.

Provide Engineering and Management Faculty with tools and frameworks to teach Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Undergraduate programs, this will enable a rapid scaling of the entrepreneurship education in India.

Specific objectives are:

Prepare the faculty for the 21st Entrepreneurship Challenges by incorporating the experiential entrepreneurship pedagogy in curricula

Transform entrepreneurship curriculum to build core entrepreneurial skills including opportunity assessment, networking, team development, financial management, fund raising, technology integration, leadership, sales and marketing

Increase the quality and frequency of entrepreneurial experiential activities, co-curricular activities, direct time with successful entrepreneurs, mentorships, internships, incubation centers, alumni engagement, and entrepreneurs-in-residence)

Increase the use and quality of interdisciplinary learning of entrepreneurship concepts

University of Massachusetts Lowell (USA) and KLE Technological University Hubli, India) have been conducting 2-week accelerated multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural classes since 2014. Over 820 students from 17 countries have participated in these sessions held in Hubli (India), Nanjing (China) and in Lowell (USA). Results have been very positive, generating excitement and new energy in entrepreneurship within the student community. To scale such an educational effort, it is essential to train and develop engineering and management faculty engaged in teaching entrepreneurship and innovation. This time it is in Warangal in SR Innovation Exchange.

Faculty from UMASS LOWELL will fly down to Warangal and conduct this 4 days intensive workshop.

This workshop will provide tools and frameworks to the Management and Engineering Faculty focusing on Experiential Learning. Broad topics covered are :

Essentials of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship Building Blocks

Business Model Canvas

Lean Launchpad

Lean Start-up

Design Thinking

Marketing, Market Research and Customer Discovery

Process

Financing Ventures

Entrepreneurial Teams

Workshop Specifics

The Workshop is offered as a 4-day intensive experiential learning of Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation. It is designed to help faculty to understand the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation in today's global economy and to cultivate an entrepreneurial mind-set. Faculty will work in inter-disciplinary, multi- cultural environments exploring problem solving techniques, opportunities identification, business concept development and venture planning using standard business model framework and bringing ideas to reality.

The Workshop will require participants to practice on real life technological and social projects to evaluate their commercialization potential and opportunities.

After attending this workshop, it is expected that a faculty will:

Be able to Design, Develop and effectively Deliver entrepreneurship and innovation courses

Be able to Guide students in entrepreneurship experiential learning

Be able to Conduct entrepreneurship activities and provide learning lessons and feedback

Be able to Mentor student entrepreneurship to pursue startup ventures

Be able to Understand, Plan and Establish an entrepreneurship ecosystem

Lean Launchpad

Lean Start-up

Design Thinking

Marketing, Market Research and Customer Discovery

Process

Financing Ventures

Entrepreneurial Teams

I. Case studies will be included in each topic

II. Attendees/ Participants should bring ideas or projects they would like to work on

III. Reading material and assignments will be forwarded in electronic form at least 2 weeks prior to the workshop

IV. Attendees are expected to come prepared to the workshop, including assigned work

V. Attendees are expected to bring appropriate technology with them (Laptop, Tablet, Smart Phone)