Entrepreneurship and Innovation Major

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Department Chair: Mark V. Cannice, Ph.D.

The San Francisco Bay Area is the global epicenter of new venture creation, technology innovation, and venture capital.

The USF Entrepreneurship and Innovation Major (E&I) is designed to prepare students to become creative, thoughtful, and determined professionals who are able to apply their analytical skills in developing well-planned and socially responsible innovations and ventures which they can persuasively present to executive audiences.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation students will develop skills in physical and on-line design, entrepreneurial planning and communication, and gain entrepreneurial and innovative experience with E&I faculty guidance. Students will be able to tailor their Entrepreneurship and Innovation Major with course selections that include Family Business, Social Entrepreneurship, and Thought Leadership in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, among others. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to pitch a new business venture plan before a professional panel of Silicon Valley executives and investors in the capstone entrepreneurial management class.

Program Learning Outcomes

Entrepreneurship and Innovation students will build capability in following areas:

Creativity, innovation, and applied design for products and services
Technology and online business expertise (e.g. business website development and on-line tools)
Entrepreneurial planning - financial, marketing, strategic (e.g. business plan)
Entrepreneurial and Innovative experience in area of interest (e.g. technology start-up, social venture, family business)

Curriculum

Business Core plus 20 or more credits of E&I electives and “Entrepreneurial Management” Capstone BUS 406 and minimum 100 hours E&I internship practicum experience as approved by Entrepreneurship and Innovation Faculty Mentor.