The Entrepreneurship Education in Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden: How can the entrepreneurship education deal with triple risk in technology commercialization process?

Abstract

In this article, I showed the case study of Chalmers University of Technology (CUT) in Sweden as an example of entrepreneurship education (E.E.) program. CUT aims to bring out technology-based startups and entrepreneurs at the same time as educational goal. The E.E. by CUT focused on the technology commercialization, for that, CUT collect "ideas", which means inventions and discoveries before making them intellectual property, from universities, companies and inventors, the students try to commercialize based on their ideas. Many of NTBFs from universities are based on radical findings and inventions that realize "disruptive innovation" that destroys existing markets or creates new markets. For this reason, NTBFs from universities face higher uncertainty, it is necessary to overcome "three gaps" in technology commercialization. E. E.at CUT has designed education in a way that corresponds to these "three gaps", and as a result, it has fulfilled the diversity of human resources supply of the regional ecosystem.