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KTH Studiehandbok Studiehandbok 2006-2007
2G1732 Business Opportunities in ICT
Poäng/KTH Credits 5
ECTS-poäng/ECTS Credits 7.5
Kursnivå/Level
C
Betygsskala/Grading, KTH 3, 4, 5
ECTS-betygsskala/Grading, ECTS
A-F
Obligatorisk för/Compulsory for
TITEM1
Språk/Language
Engelska / English
Kurssida/Course Page
http://www.sses.se/SSESTemplates/CoursePag
e.aspx?id=447
Business Opportunities in ICT
Kursansvarig/Coordinator
Kista
Lena Ramfelt, lenar@it.kth.se
Tel. 0733-756012
Kursuppläggning/Time Period 1
Mål
This course gives an understanding of the context and the environment for
companies within the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sphere.
This is a course for anyone who sees their future in ICT: as an entrepreneur,
an engineer, a venture capitalist, a policy-maker, or as a scholar. We will
critical examine different aspects of ICT to understand different preconditions
in the ICT-sphere. We will not work with developing business-models or
business-plans for ICT-based enterprises.
Kursinnehåll
During the course we will discuss conditions that affect companies operating
within ICT, such as globalization, privatization, de-regulations, different types
of miliuex that host ICT-clusters. We will map out different players and their
places in different value-chains, and we will cover cutting edge technology
within ICT as well as security and open source approaches in the development
of the technology. We will bring in guests from different fields related to ICT
who bring a variety of perspectives of what has happened, what is going on
right now, and what will be the future for ICT-enterprises.
Classes will be held at the IT-university in Kista The course will be co-taught
with 2G1724.
The main resources for facilitating the learning are the students, teachingteam,
and the guests that in one way or another capacity will participate
during the course. For every session there will either be group and individual
assignments
There will be 20 seats in the class.
Förkunskaper
B–level courses in Information Technology Computer Systems (computer
architecture and operating systems)
Data communication, Computer Networks and Internetworking
Programming, software engineering.
Aim
This course gives an understanding of
the context and the environment for
companies within the Information
Communication Technology (ICT)
sphere. This is a course for anyone who
sees their future in ICT: as an
entrepreneur, an engineer, a venture
capitalist, a policy-maker, or as a
scholar. We will critical examine
different aspects of ICT to understand
different preconditions in the ICTsphere.
We will not work with
developing business-models or businessplans
for ICT-based enterprises.
Syllabus
During the course we will discuss
conditions that affect companies
operating within ICT, such as
globalization, privatization, deregulations,
different types of miliuex
that host ICT-clusters. We will map out
different players and their places in
different value-chains, and we will cover
cutting edge technology within ICT as
well as security and open source
approaches in the development of the
technology. We will bring in guests
from different fields related to ICT who
bring a variety of perspectives of what
has happened, what is going on right
now, and what will be the future for
ICT-enterprises.
Classes will be held at the IT-university
in Kista The course will be co-taught
with 2G1724.
The main resources for facilitating the
learning are the students, teaching-team,
and the guests that in one way or another
capacity will participate during the
course. For every session there will
either be group and individual
assignments
There will be 20 seats in the class.
Prerequisites
B–level courses in Information
Technology Computer Systems
(computer architecture and operating
systems)
Data communication, Computer
Networks and Internetworking
Programming, software engineering.
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