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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise
This online course provided an insight into how to turn ideas into reality. With illustrations of successful innovators through history, the course offered an exploration of how to structure and solve problems, generate and evaluate ideas, and exercise influence.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Judith Squires
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost
University of Bristol
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop your personal resource profile and innovation style to better focus your ideas
- Explore historic, current, and future innovations that inspire you
- Develop a toolkit of problem-solving and idea-generating techniques
- Investigate engineering your own luck so that you have more and better ‘accidental’ ideas
- Identify ways to start-up an idea with a minimum of effort and expense
- Improve your pitching and influencing skills
- Collaborate through online networking
Syllabus
- A historic overview of how ideas become innovations
- Insights into the habits of successful innovators
- Approaches and methods for understanding and categorising complex problems
- Techniques for structuring and solving problems
- Understanding ‘accidental’ invention and engineering your own luck
- Recognising different forms of innovation
- Idea-generation and evaluation techniques
- Using the Lean Startup method to test your ideas out
- How to network, influence, and pitch your ideas effectively
Issued on 18th October 2021
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