BEX2411 Entrepreneurial mindsets and capabilities

Entrepreneurship and innovation are driven by our ability to interrogate the world around us and think critically to identify challenges and opportunities worth exploring. The ability to make sense of, and create insight from a problem space or context, powers creative and innovative solutions. Furthermore, the ability to systematically employ creative thinking and to develop prototypes and approaches to validate hypotheses are crucial skills for entrepreneurs and innovators.

This unit provides you with an overall understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation, with a deep dive into practical knowledge and hands-on experience in problem exploration using design-driven, innovation-focused research and analysis tools and techniques. It takes you through creative thinking activities and requires the generation of novel concepts, solutions and tangible prototypes to validate with target customers and/or end-users.