What is Entrepreneurship?

In order for global society to thrive in the “era of VUCA” (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity), entrepreneurship is required as a fundamental skill alongside one’s area of expertise.

Tokyo Tech defines entrepreneurship as the dynamic mindset and skills to develop and create new values, and then implement them in the real world. The essence of entrepreneurship is thinking independently and taking proactive steps to realize one’s goals.

In this curriculum, students are expected to acquire abilities, knowledge, and skills related to the five elements below.

Foresight:Ability to have a clear vision of a better future for society based on scientific and technological developments.

Global competencies:Ability to understand the nature of global issues and their relation to oneself and suggest solutions based on the process of information gathering, analysis, and examination; ability to collaborate with individuals from different backgrounds, culture, customs, language, and values, and work together as a group, based on mutual understanding and respect to each other.

Leadership:Ability to demonstrate leadership in building consensus among different stakeholders by recognizing perception, respecting diversity, and expressing subjective opinions based on one’s own values.

Value Creation:Having a) creativity to bring about new values by repeating the problem-solving cycle (planning, doing, and checking from multiple viewpoints) based on the insights into the fundamental challenges in their specialized fields; b) applied skills to be able to increase the probability of social implementation of the ideas; and c) ability to purposefully take action to achieve the goals.

Career Development:Ability to find role models as references for their future, and develop their own future careers:Basic knowledge required for success in society, such as industry and company analysis, money flow, laws, standards and other regulations, entrepreneurship, ethics and SDGs; social skills such as self-understanding and self-presentation, communication, critical thinking, writing, problem-solving and leadership.

In this curriculum, entrepreneurship courses related to these five elements are provided at the 100 to 600 levels.
Deemed entrepreneurship courses are also offered by respective undergraduate majors and graduate majors.