Facilitation of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Catalog description

This course aims to introduce students to a specific area of consulting, being that of assisting entrepreneurs and inventors to create new ventures. Assisting others in creating new ventures is very different from creating your own business or consulting to established companies and facilitators are required to take different actions depending on the situation. In this course students will work directly with aspiring entrepreneurs and/or investors and be guided through the process of conducting an entrepreneurial human and social capital analysis, before conducting an in-depth audit of resources available to the entrepreneur that will fill identified gaps. In the second half of the course, students work with the entrepreneur/inventor and other relevant resource providers in a structured and disciplined manner using a design-innovation process that has been shown to dramatically increasing the probability of creating a successful innovation. Graded on A-F basis only. Credit Hour s : 3 Prerequisites: Individual sections may be restricted to business students only and/or students who have declared the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Minor on their academic plan