INV 405 - Innovation Leadership

Students will learn how to apply the tools and strategies learned in earlier courses into a more advanced system approach to innovation. Through this process, students will learn to lead systems for building alignment, collaboration and capacity to generate and implement new ideas in a wide range of organizations. Students will then apply concepts explored in Innovation Engineering with the purpose of creating students’ own project proposals. Students will be expected to identify a problem or opportunity and to research existing solutions to the problem before developing their own ideas and testing idea using iterative cycles to help ensure success of the idea.

General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions

Prerequisites: INV 121 and INV 282

Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring and Summer

Credits: 4