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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Foundation of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China
This online course introduced the processes incorporating discovery, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, as well as how Chinese culture can influence them. Learners have engaged in a range of skills-building activities which they can apply to their own situations. More specifically, learners who finished this course should have learned how to identify problems, generate ideas to solve a problem, design product ideas, and explore business models and a business plan.
5 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr. Hongyi Sun
Associate Professor
City University of Hong Kong
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain why China is in urgent need of innovation-based entrepreneurship
- Describe the influence of Chinese culture on innovation and entrepreneurship
- Identify problems in everyday life which require innovative solutions
- Produce solutions to those problems by generating new ideas through the creative thinking process
- Design a product idea and evaluate its Intellectual Property protection and existing competitors
- Synthesise all the learning outcomes above into a business model and a business plan
Syllabus
- Demographic and economic basics in contemporary China
- Research-informed cultural binaries and their influence on facilitating or impeding innovation
- Impediments to innovation in Chinese culture
- Facilitating innovation and entrepreneurship with the systematic and cross-disciplinary PIPE Model
- Recognizing problems as innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities
- Creating innovative ideas and solutions with the Cre8map and the Diamond Style of Thinking
- Examination of new product idea feasibility with a patent search and market research
- Product design in the New Product Development process and conducting user tests to identify limitations
- Development of a business model and a business plan for a startup
Issued on 21st February 2017
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