Course Outline
The course is comprised of Mindsets and Project. The major contents of the Mindsets are outlined below.
Unit 1: Innovation Models
1.1 Introduction to Innovation
1.2 Product Innovation
1.3 Service Innovation
1.4 Process Innovation
1.5 Business Model Innovation
1.6 Social Innovation
1.7 Market Innovation
Unit 2: Problem Solving Process
2.1 Observation
2.2 Definition
2.3 Representation
2.4 Ideation and Selection
2.5 Prototyping
2.6 Testing
2.7 Milestones and Iterations
Unit 3: Creative Thinking
3.1 The History of Creativity
3.2 Sources of Creativity in Individuals
3.3 Mental Models of Creativity
3.4 Creative Thinking Methods
3.5 Roadblocks in Creativity
Unit 4: Innovation Tools
4.1 Mind map
4.2 Attribute Listing
4.3 Patterning
4.4 Analogizing
4.5 Morphological Synthesis
4.6 Substitution
4.7 Combination
4.8 Adaptation
4.9 Modification
4.10 Putting to other use
4.11 Elimination
4.12 Rearrangement or reverse
Unit 5: Special Presentation
5.1 The Sources of Innovation
5.2 Open Innovation
5.3 The Innovators
5.4 Guest Speakers Topics