Professional skills training
Participants in the CryptoWorks21 program are expected to fulfill the following requirements for professional skills:
- Demonstrate novice understanding in each professional skill area
- Demonstrate advanced understanding in at least one professional skill area
Novice level
Standards and certification
Learning outcome: Develop an understanding of standards, their relevance and importance for deployability, competitiveness, large-scale adoption, the standards and compliance organizations, and compliance development.
Delivery mechanism: Standards and Certification Workshop, offered in spring term in odd years.
Intellectual property protection and management
Learning outcome: Demonstrate an understanding of IP, its importance, main strategies, protection and management possibilities.
Delivery mechanism: BE 606 Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Students may enrol any semester in which BE 606 is offered
Commercialization and entrepreneurship
Learning outcome: Demonstrate an understanding of how to take innovations to commercial applications.
Delivery mechanism: BE 606 Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Students may enrol any semester in which BE 606 is offered
Management
Learning outcome: Demonstrate an understanding of the different methods and paradigms for managing people, projects, scope, time, and risk.
Delivery mechanism: BE 600 Management and Leadership
Students may enrol any semester in which BE 606 is offered
Communications
Learning outcome: Demonstrate an understanding of the art of communication, such as communicating science to non-specialists, communicating a business plan, interpersonal and team communication.
Delivery mechanism: BE 600 Management and Leadership
Students may enrol any semester in which BE 606 is offered
Advanced level
Integration of professional skills
Learning outcome: Identify and apply core concepts in entrepreneurship to a new venture or to their academic research.
Delivery mechanism: Advanced Lean Canvas and Entrepreneurship Workshop, offered in spring term.
Pre-requisite: Completion of BE 606.
Next offering: TBD