Innovation
This module is designed to help participants understand how innovation contributes to the development and growth of a business. The module is composed as series of workshops with a practical aspect where participants will get the opportunity to apply what they are learning. One of their assessments will require them to work with other students from partner universities on an innovative product development process.
Business Start-Ups
This module focuses specifically on starting a business. In particular, the module will aim to: explore the student’s own aims and abilities concerning starting a business; evaluate, across a wide range of contexts, the application of theories, models, tools and techniques for starting a business; conceptualize the distinctiveness of new business; explore the complexity and integrated nature of business and social networks that can support entrepreneurs and enable start-ups to grow or fail.
Business Model Development
This module participants complete at the end of the program and it formalizes the content of the other modules into a business plan. In this module all participants are required to have mentors that will be guiding them through business model development and evaluate them upon program completion.