SCOPE II: Social Innovation Processes

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Practicum examines how innovation by organizations can be used to develop responses to social problems. Social innovators employ "entrepreneurial skills," such as finding opportunities, inventing new approaches, securing and focusing resources to meet social needs and managing risk, in the service of creating social value. We see social innovation, defined as innovative, social value creation, occurring within or across nonprofit, governmental, and for profit organizations. Under a faculty mentor, students in this course will work with an organization to help it improve people's lives through the development of innovative programs to meet social needs.