Creativity and Innovation: Their Role in Becoming an Entrepreneur
Adopt a creative mindset in order to develop your business idea and overcome resistance to innovation.
Duration
2 weeksWeekly study
5 hours100% online
How it works
Creativity and Innovation: Their Role in Becoming an Entrepreneur
What’s the difference between creativity and innovation, and how can they help you to become an entrepreneur?
This course covers how to review and identify the best ways to generate ideas in business. You’ll have a chance to explore effective creative processes to help you recognise, harness, and stimulate innovation.
Learn how to do a PESTLE analysis and create a mind map
You’ll have an opportunity to explore all avenues of ideation – from brainstorming and the ingenuity process to thinking inside the box.
You’ll also be able to discover how to carry out a PESTLE analysis: is a framework to analyse the key factors (Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal and Environmental) influencing an organisation from the outside.
What is design thinking – and how can you use it?
The course will teach you about the concept of design thinking. By supplying a structure to the process of innovation, design thinking allows innovators to collaborate and agree on what’s essential to the outcome at every phase.
Discover different types of innovation
How does innovation happen? The course will look at types of innovation (sustaining, disruptive, incremental and radical), who the innovators are and how innovation happens.
You’ll also learn how to carry out innovation management and to overcome resistance to innovation.
Syllabus
Week 1
Ideation
Introduction to creativity and innovation
In this first activity, you will discuss what creativity is and how it is different from innovation.
Creativity and innovation explained
Reflect on how creativity and innovation are interrelated and identify the nuances around them. You will also critically reflect on the importance of a creative mind-set to the processes of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Ideation
In this activity, you will explore how ideas are generated and critically assess the different techniques used to generate ideas. You will also discuss the usefulness of a more recent technique referred to as Design Thinking.
Coming up next
Review what you have learned in this week and look at what's next.
Week 2
Process of Innovation
Process of innovation
Explore how innovation happens and who the innovators are. You will also explore in more depth the different types of innovation and strategies for overcoming resistance to innovation/the innovation process.
Making a change
In this activity, you are asked to reflect on how you might go about making a change or solving a problem. This could be either in the context of your job/role or wider society.
Coming up next
Review what you have learned in this week and in the short course and look at what's next.
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Discuss the nature and importance of creativity and innovation
- Explain how innovation happens and how to recognise, stimulate and harness innovation
- Identify types of innovation
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone interested in applying entrepreneurship principles to their daily lives.
It will be of particular interest to people in business development, recruitment and business management roles looking to take their career to the next level.
If you want to develop your knowledge further, you may want to take these courses, from the same provider, that share the same overall learning outcomes:
Who developed the course?
Coventry University
Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.
Established
1992Location
Coventry
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Develop skills to further your career
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- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
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Buy this course
$94/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
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Sample the course materials
- Access expires 7 Apr 2023
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