Course: Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise

Before we start looking at your networks, let’s go back to the Bristol Case Studies to ask them how they used their networks to develop their ideas, and why they …

This week, it’s all about you… Over the past weeks, you may have found yourself developing a hunch into an idea, possibly having thought through a problem, or you may …

Let’s look at ways to start generating some ideas for new innovations, whatever kind they are. As explained in this video, SCAMPER is a specific acronym used to explore new …

Here, we go back to the Bristol Case Studies you met in Step 1.6 to ask them about the role luck or chance has played in getting them to where …

So far we have been thinking about more structured approaches to innovation. But, although you can plan and structure innovative processes, sometimes the process of innovation can look more haphazard. …

In this video, you hear a reading of Rudyard Kipling’s poem, I Keep Six Honest Serving Men. The poem is a very simple tool for starting to think about and …

There are problems, big and small, at all levels of society. Here at the University of Bristol, research institutes have been set up to pool ideas and knowledge from different …

This week will be looking at problems, but what are ‘problems’ and how can we start to work with them? In whatever way you are taking notes during this course …

In this video, we once again hear from the innovators and entrepreneurs you first met in Step 1.6. Listen to their stories and think about the following question: What creative …

In the previous discussion, you came up with a number of ideas about what makes someone a successful innovator. Here, Dave talks you through some of his own ideas on …

‘Innovation’ can sometimes seem like quite a straightforward process: someone has a brilliant idea, develops it, and takes it to market. But in reality, it is rarely that straightforward, or …