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Course Modules
GS5105: TechInnovate I: Needs Finding to Concept Generation
Semester 1 | Credits: 10
The course encompasses the entire process from identifying domain-specific needs, validating those needs, brainstorming, and concept creation for new technology products.
(Language of instruction: English)
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate awareness of the process for innovating technologies
- Demonstrate awareness of how to identify an important unmet domain need taking into consideration domain, scientific and market knowledge
- Demonstrate appreciation of concept generation and brainstorming
- Acquire significant experience of teamwork in a multidisciplinary setting
- Have utilised appropriate approaches to evaluate the concepts
- Be able to reflect on your experience
- Have completed a consulting report on your specific need
Assessments
- Continuous Assessment (100%)
Teachers
- JOHN BRESLIN:
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- ARLINE BRODER:
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Reading List
- "Disciplined entrepreneurship" by Bill Aulet, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management Managing Director, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship ; illustrated by Marius Ursache.
ISBN: 9781118692288.
Publisher: New York; John Wiley & Sons, Inc - "Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook" by Bill Aulet
ISBN: 9781119365792.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons - "Technology Entrepreneurship: Bringing Innovation to the Marketplace" by Natasha Evers, James Cunningham, Thomas Hoholm
ISBN: 9781137020109.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan - "The Four Steps to the EpiphanyThe Four Steps to the Epiphany" by n/a
ISBN: 9780989200509.
Publisher: ; K&S Ranch Publishing LLC - "Business model generation (available online through NUI Galway Library)" by written by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur; design, Alan Smith; editor and contributing co-author, Tim Clark; production, Patrick van der Pijl; co-created by an amazing crowd of 470 practitioners from 45 countries
ISBN: 9780470876411.
Publisher: Wiley - "Founders at Work" by Jessica Livingston
ISBN: 9781590597149.
Publisher: Apress - "Blue ocean strategy" by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
ISBN: 9781591396192.
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press - "Getting to Plan B" by John Mullins, Randy Komisar
ISBN: 9781422126691.
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Note: Module offerings and details may be subject to change.