Entrepreneurship In Biotechnology — For Everyone

Time to put the class Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology online. Topic number one: why everyone everyone should study entrepreneurship.

Only a small percentage of us will ever start a business. So why should we all study entrepreneurship?

Well, what is entrepreneurship? Yes, it is the process by which we start businesses. It Is also the means by which we express creativity in a business setting. Most importantly, it is the way we take our ideas, our observations that there are problems in the world that we think we can fix, and make those ideas into something tangible, a product or a process or a service that can benefit others.

Some of my students discover that entrepreneurship is something more. To them, entrepreneurship is freedom, the freedom that comes from knowing that regardless of the job market, the economy, or the opportunities for advancement in your workplace you have the option to create your own future, your own path, in your own way.

Just knowing that you have that capacity is liberating. Why?

Well, what is the first rule of negotiation? Have options.

Knowing how to start a business means you always have an option. The perspective entrepreneur is never trapped or stuck.

One of the things I love about Columbia University is its commitment to a Core Curriculum. Since 1919, the Core, which the university defines as rigorous training in the essential skills of analysis, argument, quantitative reasoning, logical inference and creative thinking, has formed the basis for one of the best liberal arts educations in the world.

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Entrepreneurship In Biotechnology -- For Everyone