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.
Integrated Business Project

Entrepreneurship is a process of transformation—from idea to venture and from venture to value. It’s an equal mix of optimism and realism. With the Integrated Business Project (IBP), you will complete a business plan with a team of students and learn vital entrepreneurial skills, from opportunity recognition to risk and return. 

To culminate this experiential learning process, you and your team may compete for cash prizes with industry executives, including venture capitalists serving as judges. The IBP is integral to both the Commercialization and Clean Technology Tracks.

Table 5.  Additional Learning Outcomes for the Clean Technology Track

Clean Technology Track Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of Clean Technology track, students will be able to:

Coursework

Create, build and manage innovative, socially responsible, and sustainable technology-intensive enterprises in a global business environment.  To achieve this outcome, students must demonstrate an ability to:

 
  • Apply screening tools and the technology commercialization process to develop a business proposal for a selected clean technology project

IBP (BA566/567/568)
  • Present a compelling argument for funding

IBP (BA566/567/568)
  • Formulate strategies to be competitive in an international business environment

BA 569 and IBP (BA566/567/568)
  • Understand core principles and technologies shaping the clean-technology  industry

BA 566