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Exploring Catalysts for Innovation

Discover motives and drivers beyond the outcomes and processes for innovation.

Exploring Catalysts for Innovation

  • Duration

    2 weeks

  • Weekly study

    10 hours
Overview
Topics
Requirements
Educators

Different strategies and innovative opportunities underpin economic motives in business.

On this course, we will explore social motives and opportunities as an alternative driver of innovation.

You will apply the conditioning effects of institutional context to shape how organisations and individuals recognize and act on innovative opportunities.

What topics will you cover?

  • Socio-economic motives and antecedents of innovation
  • Exploring the catalysts to innovate
  • Exploration of economic motives
  • The Invisible Hand of Institutions: conditioning effects on innovation
  • Logics that support social and economic innovation.

Learning on this course

You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. 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...

  • Identify different types of alternative strategies that are drivers of innovation
  • Evaluate accepted practices and norms using a range of tools and approaches to create change and drive entrepreneurial outcomes

Who is the course for?

For students undertaking the graduate/ postgraduate certificate, jointly delivered by Coventry University and Deakin University.

Who will you learn with?

Matt Mount

Dr Matt Mount (Ph.D) is Assistant Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Deakin Business School. He is an expert in the area of strategy and innovation processes.

Joan Lockyer

I am the Director of Education and a Professor in Entrepreneurship at Coventry University's International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship. I have also worked in industry and consultancy.

Gideon Maas

Prof Maas is the Director of the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship at Coventry University. Has broad international business and academic experiences in various countries.

Who developed the course?

Deakin University

Deakin University is one of Australia’s largest universities with more than 61,000 students and over 15,000 online.

  • Established

    1974

  • Location

    Melbourne, Australia

  • World ranking

    Top 280Source: QS World University Rankings 2021

Coventry University

Coventry secured gold in the UK Government’s 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and is University of the Year for Student Experience in The Times & The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019.

  • Established

    1992

  • Location

    Coventry

Learning on FutureLearn

Your learning, your rules

  • Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps, but you can complete them as quickly or slowly as you like
  • Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
  • Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

Join a global classroom

  • Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
  • Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
  • Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

Map your progress

  • As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
  • Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control

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