Innovative Businesses and Breakthrough Technologies (The Legal Issues) OpenCourseWare: A Free Graduate Level Business Law Course by MIT

Published Jan 16, 2009

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MIT offers 'Innovative Businesses and Breakthrough Technologies (The Legal Issues)' to graduate students in its Sloan School of Management, but has now made it accessible through MIT's OpenCourseWare program as well. The course is designed to provide managers with a basic understanding of law surrounding new technologies (R&D legal factors, commercialization and regulatory and liability implications).

Innovative Businesses and Breakthrough Technologies (The Legal Issues): Course Specifics

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Innovative Businesses and Breakthrough Technologies (The Legal Issues): Course Description

While most managers never take a formal law course, they are inevitably called upon to make decisions regarding legal issues that seriously impact their businesses. Professor John Akula designed 'Innovative Businesses and Breakthrough Technologies (The Legal Issues)' to redress this gap in many managers' educations. This lecture course was previously offered to graduate students in MIT's Sloan School of Management. 'Innovative Businesses and Breakthrough Technologies (The Legal Issues)' acquaints management students with key legal topics concerning new technologies, including liability, intellectual property and regulation. It also delves into the legal issues surrounding research and development and the regulatory and liability issues presented by non-traditional business models and new product development.

'Innovative Businesses and Breakthrough Technologies (The Legal Issues)' OpenCourseWare allows members of the public with Internet access to view the class reading list and download the course assignments in .pdf format. If you'd like to get additional information about this class, you can find it at the business law course page.

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