2021 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering Graduate major in Engineering Sciences and Design
Disciplined Entrepreneurship
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Engineering Sciences and Design
- Instructor(s)
- Yuji Tou / Bach Quang Ho
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive (大岡山地区西9号館)
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- ESD.H401
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2021
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This lecture is an intensive lecture that provides entrepreneurship education.
Entrepreneur requires a practical and organizational knowledge of business, technology, and design.
The purpose of this lecture is to learn a startup approach based on an integrated framework, to create business product ideas from multiple complex social problems, and to propose appropriate and concrete solutions.
Course description and aims
Student will acquire the following abilities,
1) Fundamental knowledge that can explain what entrepreneurship is
2) Learn about startup approach based on an integrated framework and understand how to start a business
3) Be able to make business plans and proposals based on the above approaches.
Keywords
Entrepreneurship & Start-up, Digital Thinking, Business Creation
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
1) Lecture consists of lecture and practical exercise
2) Students are expected to actively participate in related activities like group work, presentation and discussion
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction | |
| Class 2 | Overview of Disciplined Entrepreneurship | |
| Class 3 | Create Business Ideation | |
| Class 4 | Team Building | Preparation of Pitch presentation |
| Class 5 | Pitch presentation | |
| Class 6 | Design Thinking | |
| Class 7 | Who is your customer? | |
| Class 8 | Team Project Time | • Identify market, customers, and features of business idea |
| Class 9 | What can you do for your cutomer? | |
| Class 10 | How we could make a financial structure (1) | |
| Class 11 | How we could make a financial structure (2) | |
| Class 12 | Team Project Time | • Financial analysis and strategy |
| Class 13 | How to develop your business | |
| Class 14 | Team Project Time | |
| Class 15 | Final Presentation | Submit final presentation file |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
Bill Aulet, “Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup,” Wiley (2013)
Reference books, course materials, etc.
1) None required.
2) Course materials are provided during class.
Evaluation methods and criteria
1) Class contribution & report
2) Contribution to the group work and presentation
Related courses
- ESD.A501 ： Engineering Design Project A
- ESD.A502 ： Engineering Design Project B
- ESD.A503 ： Engineering Design Project C
Prerequisites
No prerequisites.
Other
Lectures will be given in a four-day intensive course format （6/13, 6/27, 7/18, 7/25）