ENT 607
Managing Technological Innovation
Spring
3 credits

Objective & Learning Outcomes

In a rapidly changing technology world, this course shows how a systematic approach will help budding entrepreneurs track technology trends, take careful bets, develop ideas through iterative experimentation, and prepare early presentations. We will look at short cases of successful as well as failed startups. We will learn the importance of the "fail early, fail fast" approach. Through a team project, we will learn to apply the tools and frameworks to ideas chosen by the team. It will be like learning to build innovation stamina through a systematic workout.

Modules

  1. Intro: Technology-led vs technology-enabled innovation
  2. Technology lifecycle and use-case creation
  3. Challenge framing and metaphoric thinking
  4. Inventive thinking vs Design thinking
  5. Rapid Prototyping
  6. Idea pitching

Faculty