Entrepreneurship & Innovation Graduate Certificate
91ÁÔÆæ's Mike Cottrell College of Business offers the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Certificate. The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Certificate will prepare students for success in starting new ventures, developing corporate innovations, and/or enhancing their careers with an attitude of entrepreneurial empowerment. This particular certificate provides added value through education in entrepreneurial creativity, innovation and processes suited for all sizes of organizations.
Program Application Deadline
If program capacity is met prior to established admission deadlines, we will stop accepting applications for admission and cancel remaining incomplete applicants. Completing your application earlier is better.
Summer Deadline
How to Apply to the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Certificate Program
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Graduate Certificate Curriculum
Graduate certificates are for those who are not-seeking an additional degree but may be interested in additional education in the field of technology.
Entrepreneurship & Innovation graduate certificate program is a 10-credit-hour program taught entirely during the summer semester. The courses include:
Program Courses (10 credit hours)
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Being creative and innovative is about critically thinking, seeing opportunities, passionately pursuing them and creating value-adding solutions. Organizational management and culture can foster or hinder individual, team and company creativity. In this course students develop an understanding of being creative themselves and how to encourage and develop a culture of innovation within their teams or organizations that might lead to new products or services, improved operations or market growth. The objective of this course is to help students discover the value of their creativity and reap the benefits of developing ideas into a viable solution.
Hours:
3
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Being entrepreneurial is about being innovative, risk-taking and proactive. This course places an emphasis on entrepreneurship as a process that can be managed and applied in any setting. Furthermore, this course provides the knowledge and skills to move innovative ideas to reality in a very proactive way while ensuring proper consideration for the risk of exposed resources. During this course students will develop a proof of concept and an execution plan for the new venture. Students will also be exposed to financing options and the associated risk. The startup world presents several personal, family and business challenges and rewards. Students will be introduced to the various issues and potential ways to manage the conflicts of the entrepreneurial life.
Hours:
4
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Entrepreneurship is alive and well in the corporate world. To be competitive within the current business environment corporations are increasingly required to innovate and be entrepreneurial. Although corporations are typically viewed and described as bureaucratic and not as innovative or agile as new ventures or smaller businesses, many have been creative and innovative in building and sustaining their competitive advantage. This course explores innovation and entrepreneurship in established medium to large organizations including lean product develop and implementation. Innovation in corporations can be stymied when placed in the everyday operations of a company. This course also explores the use of skunk works and other techniques to insure that existing company methods, processes and performance measures do not diminish new product and venture ideas.
Hours:
3
Questions?
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