Minor Program in Entrepreneurship

 

  

 

The Minor Program in Entrepreneurship is jointly offered by the School of Science, Engineering and the School of Business & Management. This Minor Program is designed mainly for engineering, business and science students, but is also open to all students to apply. Any undergraduate students with an overall CGA of 2.7 or above may enroll in this Minor Program. Students must declare their intention to enroll in the Minor Program no earlier than the first regular term of their second year of study but no later than the last day of the add/drop period in the first regular term of their final year of study. Students who wish to withdraw from the Minor Program should apply before the last day of the add/drop period in the last regular term of their final year of study.


 


▪ Enrollment Requirements
▪ Other Requirements
▪ Enrollment Period
▪ Curriculum Requirements
▪ Application Procedures
▪ Briefing Sessions
▪ ENTR4901-4 enrollment requirements
▪ Enquiry


 Enrollment Requirements
 

Mainly for engineering, business and science students, but ALL undergraduate students at HKUST with CGA of 2.7 or above are eligible to apply.


 

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Other Requirements

To graduate with a minor in Entrepreneurship, the students must have enrolled in the Minor Program and completed a minimum total of 18 credits and all of its requirements, as well as all the requirements of their major program of study. For students admitted in 2016-17 or after, they are also required to attain an average grade point of at least 2.5 in courses taken within the Minor Program. For credit transfer, students can transfer a maximum total of 6 credits to the Minor Program.

Out of the total credits required by the minor program, at least 9 credits should be single-counted within the minor and are not used to fulfill any other requirements for graduation except the 120-credit degree requirement.

Students may use no more than 6 credits earned from courses offered in pure online delivery mode to satisfy the graduation requirements of a degree program. This 6-credit limit does not apply to credits obtained through the credit transfer procedures of the University.

 

 

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Enrollment Period

Students must declare their intention to enroll in the Minor Program no earlier than the first regular term of their second year of study but no later than the last day of the add/drop period in the first regular term of their final year of study. Students who wish to withdraw from the Minor Program should apply before the last day of the add/drop period in the last regular term of their final year of study.

 

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Curriculum Requirements


Required course(s):

Credit(s) attained

ENGG/ISOM

Note: ENGG1130 OR ISOM1380

3

ENGG1130

The Impact and Value of Technology Innovation

3

ISOM1380

Technology and Innovation: Social and Business Perspectives

3

 

Elective(s):
 

Minimum credit(s)

required
ENTR


Entrepreneurship Electives - Fundamentals (Courses from the specified elective list. Students can use at most 6 credits they earned from ENTR4901-4 to count towards this elective requirement.)

6




ENTR 1001 Entrepreneurship 1001: Building Your Own Future 3
ENTR 2010 Entrepreneurship Mentorship and Readings 1
ENTR 3010** Structured Mentoring: Inspiring Leadership 3
ENTR 3020** Identifying Innovation Opportunities 3
ENTR 3030 Social Innovations and Entrepreneurship 3
ENTR 3100 Industrial Landscape: Understanding the Elements to Start a Business 3
ENTR 4901-4904 Student-led Entrepreneurship Acceleration Project 1-4





ENTR   Entrepreneurship Electives - Skillsets (Courses from the specified list. Students opting ISOM2030 or MECH2800 could only use either one course, but not both, to count towards the Minor Program) 9
 
ENTR 3350 Global Product Development 3
ENTR 3360 From Product Innovations to Successful Technology Startups 3
BIBU 4820 Biotechnology Entrepreneurship and Business Operations 3
COMP 4911 IT Entrepreneurship 3
ELEC 3710** Hi-Tech Entrepreneurship 3
ENVS 4301** Environmental Conservation 3
FINA 2203 Fundamentals of Business Finance 3
FINA 2303 Financial Management 3
IEDA 2150 Product Design 3
IEDA 2200 Engineering Management 3
IEDA 4170 Product Design and Lifecycle Management 3
ISDN 3350 Global Product Development 3
ISDN 3360 From Product Innovations to Successful Technology Startups 3
ISDN 4320 Design Thinking 3
ISOM 2030 Business Protections for Innovations 3
ISOM 4020 Innovation Management and Technology Entrepreneurship 3
ISOM 4820 Revenue Management 3
LIFS 4820 Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology 3
MARK 2120 Marketing Management 3
MECH 2800** Intellectual Property Law in Engineering 3
MGMT 3140 Negotiation 4
MGMT 4220 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Studies 4
SCIE 4860 Young Entrepreneurial Syndicate in Applied Sciences Project 3






**Remarks on course(s):
ELEC3710:   The course was last offered in 2014-15 and was deleted subsequently
ENTR3010:   The course was last offered in 2015-16 and was deleted subsequently.
ENTR3020:   The course was last offered in 2015-16 and was deleted subsequently.
ENVS4301:   The course code will be changed to OCES 4301 starting from Fall, 2021-22.
MECH2800:   The course was last offered in 2013-14 and was deleted subsequently.

 

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Application Procedures

Interested students please complete the "Declaration/ Withdrawal of Undergraduate Minor Program" (RR-37) (Can be downloaded at http://arr.ust.hk/reg/forms/r-37.pdf) and follow the procedures specified on the form. Together with the copy of unofficial transcript, please submit the form to the School of Science, the School of Engineering or the School of Business & Management.

 

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Briefing Session


 

In order to provide more details to students, briefing session would be held. The schedule is as below:

 

Date

Time

Venue

5-Sept, 2019 (Thur)

6:15-7:15pm

Classroom 4334 (4/F, Lift 3 or 17/18)

 

 


Enquiry

Prof. Robert Ko, Professor of the Division of Life Science, is the current Program Director. For enquiry, please email to sscicourse@ust.hk, sengug@ust.hk, or bmminor@ust.hk


 

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