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You Can Innovate: User Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 10 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Understand fundamental user innovation concepts such as lead user, sticky information, peer-to-peer diffusion, diffusion via the market, and low-cost innovation niche;
- Apply the concept of lead user to identifying numerous opportunities for entrepreneurial innovation;
- Learn the concept of "solution/need co-forming" and apply it to conceiving a viable and feasible solution to the problem that you seek to solve;
- Learn the tools and strategies of entrepreneurial bootstrapping, and apply them to designing the strategy for diffusing your user innovation;
- Explore the trends and forces driving the democratization of innovation and apply the insights to uplifting the potential of your entrepreneurial contribution to society.
Prerequisite
Instructors
Eric von Hippel
Professor of Management of Innovation and Engineering Systems
MIT Sloan School of Management
Erdin Beshimov
Lecturer, MIT and Director of the MIT Bootcamps Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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