ECON 590 Social Science Aspects of Innovation                

Challenging the role of entrepreneurs; Opportunity Analysis; Five Phases to Success; Preparing a Cash Flow Forecast; Five Steps to Formulating a Succesful Marketing Plan; Preparing the Marketing Analysis and Plan; Chooding Your Goals and Objectives; Setting Performance Benchmarks; Writing the Business Plan; How to write a Loan Proposal; How to apply for a Loan; Evaluating High growth Businesses; Deciding whether to go Public; SEcure method for E_commerce; Trademarks; Copyrights; Patents, Documenting your Ideas; Applying for a Patent; Trade Secrets; Which form of Ownership is Best?; forms of Doing Business