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Courses at the intersection of complex systems, technology and business.

Guest lectures, executive workshops and full courses. Existing material can be delivered as-is; bespoke programmes are equally welcome — any permutation of complex business systems, technology and mathematics can be built from the portfolio.

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Entrepreneurship — experiential course and placement

Format: One lecture per week plus thematic homework alongside a real startup; office hours with active startup operators
Duration: 8 weeks
Audience: Postgraduates · Executives
Languages: English · Chinese (with interpreter)

Knowledge made practical by pairing every lecture with work inside a live venture — from converting an idea into a company through to pitching it.

Syllabus — 9 modules
1. Introduction to the concept
2. Converting ideas into ventures
3. Startup and market evaluation
4. Customer discovery and validation
5. Business modelling
6. Fundraising and financial structuring
7. Leadership and teamwork
8. Growth and scaling
9. Pitching and storytelling

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Digital Technology in Business — modular series

Format: Standalone lectures or a sequenced series; each module runs 60–120 minutes
Duration: 6–15+ hours
Audience: Executives · Postgraduates · Researchers
Languages: English · Chinese (with interpreter)

Around six hours of refined material on advanced digital technology applied to modern business, extensible to fifteen or more by drawing on published research.

Syllabus — 6 modules
1. Complex Networks in Alternative Finance — Venture capital and supply-chain financing; the mathematics of networks and network effects.
2. AI in Supply Chains — The most refined and most-requested talk: problems and solutions of supply chains; definition, application and implications of AI.
3. Risks of AI — Detailed case studies of AI failure in business, their causes and mitigations.
4. Interactive Supply Chain Management Game — Hosting the beer game — the challenges and dynamics of supply-chain management, played live.
5. AI in Entrepreneurship — How to create new AI businesses; landscaping the venture ecosystem and how participants leverage AI.
6. Innovation Ecosystemics — Methods and theory for developing innovation hubs: blockchain, cultural management, scaling and organisational dynamics.

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Venture Scholar Studio Cohort 0 video call with the teaching team and students

Venture Scholar Studio — Cohort 0 (2025)

Two months co-delivered with Nuray Salina as one-week sprints across ideation, market evaluation, customer discovery, value capture, finance, leadership, scaling and pitching — each anchored in two live startups. Students from Iceland, the UK and Kazakhstan.

Online lecture to a Chinese audience with a live interpreter

Engineering Mathematics in Business

Lectures and workshops for executives, students, academics and private companies, delivered in English with live Chinese interpretation — most recently Complex Networks in Financial Infrastructure.

Lecture at Judge Business School, Cambridge

Cambridge Judge Business School

Guest lectures on AI, entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems to an audience of around twenty-five students.

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