This degree is designed to prepare students to create businesses or products based on their own intellectual property or facilitate the commercialization of technology enabled products, services, or businesses. Students with one of the following profiles should consider this degree: 1) Scientists and engineers who envision themselves running a laboratory, 2) Scientists and engineers who have developed intellectual property that they wish to see commercialized, 3) Those who wish to leverage their science and engineering education to facilitate new product development and new business creation, 4) Those who have studied management and wish to work in technology intensive environments.
The program consists of a set of advanced management courses, a set of upper level science or technology courses and a series of law courses. The approved plan of study includes Talent Management, Business Implications of Emerging Technologies, and Commercializing Advanced Technologies. The capstone course is Organizational Design and Change. It is highly recommended that students admitted into this program need to take preparatory courses in Accounting and Finance. Four elective courses are taken from science and engineering departments at the Institute, and the remaining credits consist of legal study courses, which can be taken from a menu of those delivered by the Albany Law School.
Examples of Law Courses include:
- Contracts Credit Hours: 2
- Introduction to Intellectual Property Credit Hours: 2
- Law of Technology Transfer Credit Hours: 2
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