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<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">The University of Chicago seeks to establish a more prominent role in the growing Chicago-area entrepreneurship ecosystem as evinced by numerous developments in programs to stimulate and foster innovation and entrepreneurship. The university recently unveiled its first engineering department the Institute for Molecular Engineering, and a new center for providing services to students and faculty members interested in pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities called the Chicago Innovation Exchange. In this Landscape Canvas, the various components of the entrepreneurial ecosystem will be explored in compliance with the Wenger Model.</span>
== <span style="font-familycolor:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif#000000;">Entrepreneurial Discovery</span> ==
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">The University of Chicago offers various classes and programs to expose students to entrepreneurship.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">MENG 20000. Introduction to Emerging Technologies. 100 Units.</span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)#000000; "><span style="line-height: inherit;">This course will examine five emerging technologies (stem cells in regenerative medicine, quantum computing, water purification, new batteries, etc.) over two weeks each. The first of the two weeks will present the basic science underlying the emerging technology; the second of the two weeks will discuss the hurdles that must be addressed successfully to convert a good scientific concept into a commercial product that addresses needs in the market place.</span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: inherit#000000;"></span></span><span style="font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(86, 86, 86); font-family: ProximaNova-Semibold, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">PHYS 22600. Electronics. 100 Units.</span></span></span><br/></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">The goal of this hands-on experimental course is to develop confidence, understanding, and design ability in modern electronics. This is not a course in the physics of semiconductors. In two lab sessions a week, we explore the properties of diodes, transistors, amplifiers, operational amplifiers, oscillators, field effect transistors, logic gates, digital circuits, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, phase-locked loops, and more. Lectures supplement the lab.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">BIOS 11140. Biotechnology for the 21st Century. 100 Units.</span></span></span><br/></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">This course is designed to provide a stimulating introduction to the world of biotechnology. Starting with an overview of the basic concepts of molecular biology and genetics that serve as a foundation for biotechnology, the course will segue into the various applied fields of biotechnology. Topics will include microbial biotechnology, agricultural biotechnology, biofuels, cloning, bioremediation, medical biotechnology, DNA fingerprinting and forensics. The goal of this course is to provide the Biology non-majors with an appreciation of important biotechnology breakthroughs and the associated bioethics issues</span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">BIOS 24206. Peering Inside the Black Box: Neocortex. 100 Units.</span></span></span><br/></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; "><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: inherit;">The neocortex is the multilayered outermost structure of the mammalian brain. It is the site of higher brain functions including reasoning and creativity. However, the complexity of the neocortex—it is comprised of ~20 billion neurons which have 0.15 quadrillion connections between them—seems to preclude any hope of achieving a fundamental understanding of the system. Recent technological innovations have opened novel avenues of investigation making realization of the neocortex an increasingly tractable problem. This course will place particular emphasis on how to critically read scientific papers as we evaluate and discuss current experimental approaches to the neocortex. Integral to this evaluation will be the detailed discussion of the latest technological approaches.</span></span>