The Clean Technology Area of Concentration (track) within the OSU MBA program prepares students with a theoretical knowledge of business, entrepreneurship, innovation, commercialization processes, and environmental economics that enables them to develop a business proposal for a selected clean technology project. The Integrated Business Projects in the Clean Technology track are broader in the sense that they consider alternatives to developing new ventures, such as licensing and commercialization. For the purposes of this track, we define clean technology as products, services and processes that:

• Involve natural resources fundamental to life or commerce including energy, water, air, extracted metals, petroleum and chemical compounds;
• Improve the efficiency of resource usage through new methods of generation, extraction, distribution or utilization; and/or
• Minimize the impact on global and local environments by reducing consumption and waste of limited resources, substituting less constrained resources that serve the same function, or enhancing methods of disposal, recycling and reuse.

Table 5.  Additional Learning Outcomes for the Clean Technology Track