Technopreneurship Education and Training (TechED)

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TechED is PhilDev’s flagship initiative, designed to cultivate technopreneurial talent across the Philippines. Our suite of programs—Technopreneurship 101, Regional Innovation Training (RIT), and the Scholars Technopreneurship Training Program (STTP)—equips participants with the skills and mindset needed to innovate and lead in science and technology sectors.

Technopreneurship 101

Technopreneurship 101 is a subject written and crafted by PhilDev, that encourages science and engineering students to explore their entrepreneurial and R&D career paths. The class is based on PhilDev’s entrepreneurship modules which cover topics such as introduction to entrepreneurship, idea creation, feasibility and differentiation, market validation, and business planning and execution. Technopreneurship 101 is implemented by CHED across all 539 HEIs that offer engineering programs in the Philippines.

Course Objectives

The course should be designed to explore the entrepreneurial mindset and culture utilizing a technology or engineering background. This should fit into goals of starting a company or being involved in an entrepreneurial or R&D effort in companies of all sizes and industries. Hence this should be applicable also in training future scientist and engineers to participate in Research and Development (R&D) activities.

The course should enable the student to

Understand and experience the entrepreneurial process from the generation of creative ideas,
understand the market needs or provide a solution to a key problem,
explore the feasibility and creation of a business enterprise,
implementation of creative ideas into real products, and
experience the dynamics of participating on a business team, create and present a business plan for a technology idea. All of the objectives and the activities of the course should provide the background, tools, and life skills to participate in the entrepreneurial process within a large company as an engineer, in a new venture, or as an investor.

Regional Innovation Training (RIT)

Regional Innovation Training (RIT) is a program designed to strengthen agro-enterprise development in rural areas under the Rural Agro-enterprise Partnership for Inclusive Development and Growth (RAPID Growth) Project. Aligned with the Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022 and in collaboration with the Department of Trade and Industry – Bureau of Planning and Innovation (DTI-BIPI), this initiative seeks to bolster employment, livelihood, and enterprise creation within rural communities, utilizing a Value Chain Approach and a Whole-of-Government Approach to expand economic opportunities.

Scholars Technopreneurship Training Program (STTP)

Scholars Technopreneurship Training Program (STTP) – Cagayan de Oro, is a seven-month capacity-building program which aims to teach Science Education Institute (SEI) scholars technopreneurship, design thinking, and innovative business and venture planning. The project will be heavily rooted in the Technopreneurship 101 curriculum developed by PhilDev. By the end of the project, SEI scholars are expected to have developed their technopreneurial mindset, their business creativity and acumen, and their own technology or solution. The STTP will achieve this through the conduct of monthly workshops, mentorship sessions, and demo day.