TECHNO FOURTH MEETING

The fourth meeting in our subject Technopreneurship last July 8, 2014 was kinda strange because there were only few late comers for that day due to the new policy that we and our facilitator agreed upon. The class started with showing us pictures that were related for the next topic of the day. The first picture was a woman cooking, followed by a man who was making hut and another man that repairs a laptop. Our facilitator asked us about our perception with the pictures relating it to our subject Technopreneurship. My point of view about those pictures was “That was then, this is now.” The difference today, and going forward, is that technology is rapidly moving to a much more agile adoption, development, operating and use model. After those segueways we vented out to the lesson proper which was about Technopreneurship Ecosystem. In this area, many of the tasks, if not all, have pre-requisites (i.e. money, materials, personnel, etc.). it is similarly for technopreneurial venture to start, grow and succeed, it must also have the required resources, environment and support. Its learning objectives are at the end of this session/lecture, the students should be able to: enumerate the different actors/players for the technology ventures to prosper and define the roles of the different actors/players in techno ventures. Succesful technopreneurship = H-E-L-F. Yes it was spelled as HELF and not HELP instead. Techno Ventures has HUMAN RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENT LAWS & POLICIES and FINANCIAL RESOURCES.Human resources components are: Research who is the thinker, idea generator and innovator. Developer who is the implementor, technical people. Scanner and marketing people and Financer.  Environment component are: Science parks and incubation centers, Academic Institutions and R & D centers, Internet access and Communication, Communication and other Support Services, Geographic accessibility and Venture Mentoring Services/Support. Incubation is the programmes provide incubation services to assist technology start-ups in their vulnerable stages, enabling them to grow and flourish. It supports office space and facilities, technical and management assistance, promotion and development assistance, business support and financial aid package.  Laws and Policies, it is the Intellectual Property Rights Office, Technology Licensing Office – facilities commercialization of Inventions and Legal Services. Financial Component is the investor, Business Sector, Funding Agencies and Financial Services (i.e. Accounting). Now I am much pretty sure what we have right now are the good and excellent ideas in building and initiating a techno business. Know I can propose to you the nature of my techno business where I consider from the mere facts of what I love, the things that I am best at and I irritants with. I really liked the things that I learned and still learning with this subject. Morally upright with virtues, technically open-minded to technological complication, we should be able to reach beyond what we expect to obtain. As a technopreneur there are several factors that should be consider on how somebody like me will be individually equipped by the matter around technopreneurship. Without much further do, there is what we called “Personality Traits” to be talk about. How an individual characteristic does may affect the relationship to neither other nor others might be affected on what personal characteristics we have? How this thing does is being connected to technopreneurship? The next thing that we did was to take up the personality traits. Yes! We have to define it first. The dictionary defines “personality” as: [a]. Habitual patterns and qualities of behavior of any individual as expressed by physical and mental activities and attitudes; distinctive individual qualities of a person, considered collectively. [b]. The complex of qualities and characteristics seen as being distinctive to a group, nation, place, etc. [c]. The sum of such qualities seen as being capable of making, or likely to make, a favorable impression on other people.
[d]. Informal personal attractiveness; engaging manner or qualities. Thus, personality is the totality of somebody’s attitude, interest, emotional responses, behavioral patterns, social roles and other individual traits that endure over long periods of time. Traits are defined as "a distinguishing or determining quality or characteristic, as of personality." In other words, this means that personality traits are the distinguishing characteristics that make you "you." Every person has a unique identity. In which we can be able to determine the difference of each person. There are some reasons on how do a certain traits influenced and engaged someone. It maybe either by the type of family he/she came from or maybe the kind of environment he/she lived. Personality traits are the unique set of characteristics and qualities that only you possess. According to some resources, although each person has hundreds, if not thousands, of different habit and traits that make up their personality, psychologists have tried to provide a bit of guidance for people to define personality traits and to determine the most important traits. Taking the personality traits tests was quite exciting but at the same time, quite terrifying. I was very excited to know and to find out the results on every test that I took, but also, as I was taking those test, I was quite reluctant that my results would disappoint me. I would like also to share how reflecting can help oneself on improving his personality. I have been reflecting since I was in elementary and I'm sure you are too. But it is only now that I have been through deep and hard reflections. Going back to our exam, which is the test that tests us on our capability as a technopreneur. As I was taking the test, I quickly noticed how the choices was clearly divided. A choice points as money being the ends of the business and the other choice pointing to relational aspect in the business. I already deduced at that point that this has something to do with Entrepreneurship. My score was 43. It translates into somewhat technopreneur. Iwas quite happy when I found my score, but then everyone in the class got the same result as me, somewhat technopreneur , then it wasn’t so special anymore. Anyways, My answers in the test really reflects what would I do when I become a technopreneur someday. Most of the choices I made was about creating good ambience in the relationship in the business. For me, when an entrepreneur goes business, he or she doesn’t just have to deal on how to make profit. I strongly believe that a business must have a good relationship between the employer and employees as well as employees to themselves. In my belief, if this fails, the business will crumble and fail as a profiting business.  I was labeled as a “somewhat technopreneur. During the said test, I never really expected that I would be able to belong in that range, but somehow I had a little hope that there is a little technopreneurial skills in me. And I do really have because I belong to the range of somewhat technopreneur. Maybe just a very tiny piece of skill, because I got the passing in that range. Maybe there are qualities that I really don’t have in order to become a good technopreneur and changing my attitude towards achieving it, takes time. It’s a process that I could also learn from this subject as well as to our teacher.