Innovation & Entrepreneurship - From Design Thinking to Funding

About this course: This Innovation and Entrepreneurship course focuses on the interconnection between entrepreneurial thinking and innovation. Specifically, we look at models used in Silicon Valley to grow both start-up companies as well as innovation inside large organizations. Bringing together top Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley faculty, this course addresses critical areas for successful growth, including design thinking, open innovation, business models, product-market fit, and financing. This course will teach you how to think like an entrepreneur and provides the models, tools and frameworks to further develop your business or idea. An emphasis will be placed on the IT space. In this second part, From Design Thinking to Funding, the following areas are included: design thinking; innovation cycle process; business modeling; and funding.

Who is this class for: This course is for first year Master students. Note that as a consequence, quiz questions are more exam questions where you have to construct the answer based on the principles that are taught in the web lectures, rather than to recall the literal text of the teacher.

Created by:  EIT Digital

• Taught by:  Martin Vendel, Dr

  KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Industrial Economics and Management

• Taught by:  Frans Nauta, Visiting scholar

  UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

• Taught by:  Mark Coopersmith, MBA

  UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

• Taught by:  Andrew Isaacs, Adjunct Professor

  UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

• Taught by:  Clark Kellogg, Lecturer

  UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

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EIT Digital EIT Digital is a pan-European education and research-based open innovation organization founded on excellence. Its mission is to foster digital technology innovation and entrepreneurial talent for economic growth and quality of life. By linking education, research and business, EIT Digital empowers digital top talents for the future. EIT Digital provides online "blended" Innovation and Entrepreneurship education to raise quality, increase diversity and availability of the top-level content provided by 20 reputable universities of technology around Europe. The universities all together deliver a unique blend of the best of technical excellence and entrepreneurial skills and mindset to digital engineers and entrepreneurs at all stages of their careers. The academic partners support Coursera’s bold vision to enable anyone, anywhere, to transform their lives by accessing the world’s best learning experience. This means that EIT Digital gradually shares parts of its entrepreneurial and academic education programmes to demonstrate its excellence and make it accessible to a much wider audience. EIT Digital’s online education portfolio can be used as part of blended education settings, in both Master and Doctorate programmes, and for professionals as a way to update their knowledge. EIT Digital offers an online programme in 'Internet of Things through Embedded Systems'. Achieving all certificates of the online courses and the specialization provides an opportunity to enroll in the on campus program and get a double degree. These are the courses in the online programme:

Syllabus


WEEK 1


Innovative design thinking



7 videos expand

1. Video: Course introduction
2. Video: Introduction to Module 1 to 3
3. Video: Introduction to design thinking
4. Video: The broad use of design thinking
5. Video: Frameworks for our thinking
6. Video: The brain
7. Video: A design thinker

Graded: Frameworks for our thinking

The innovation cycle - part 1



2 videos expand

1. Video: Introduction to the innovation cycle
2. Video: Learning styles

Graded: Innovative design thinking

WEEK 2


The innovation cycle - part 2



7 videos expand

1. Video: The observation phase
2. Video: Observing in the field
3. Video: The insight phase
4. Video: The ideation phase
5. Video: Ideation techniques
6. Video: The experiment phase
7. Video: Final thoughts

Graded: The innovation cycle
Graded: The innovation cycle

WEEK 3


Business models - definitions and approaches



6 videos expand

1. Video: Introduction to Module 4 to 6
2. Video: Introduction
3. Video: Business model innovation
4. Video: Business model innovation cases
5. Video: Why so difficult for incumbents?
6. Video: Business model disruption

Graded: Business models - definitions and approaches

WEEK 4


Business models - frameworks and tools



3 videos expand

1. Video: Business model canvas
2. Video: Business model navigator
3. Video: Feeehand illustrator

Graded: Business model canvas

Business models - customer discovery



3 videos expand

1. Video: Introduction
2. Video: Customer discovery process
3. Video: Case study

Graded: Customer discovery process
Graded: Business models - frameworks, tools and customer discovery

WEEK 5


Sources of funding



4 videos expand

1. Video: Introduction to module 7 to 9
2. Video: Family, friends and dentists
3. Video: Crowd funding and angles
4. Video: Institutional capital

Funding your startup - part 1



3 videos expand

1. Video: Introduction
2. Video: Company purpose and addressed problem
3. Video: Solution and why now

Graded: Funding

WEEK 6


Funding your startup - part 2



5 videos expand

1. Video: Market size and competition
2. Video: Product and business model
3. Video: Team and financials
4. Video: About investors
5. Video: Some final thoughts

Graded: Pitch
Graded: Funding your startup

Course completion



1 video expand

1. Video: Course finale

Graded: Final exam