Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise (FutureLearn)

Offered by University of Bristol,
Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise (FutureLearn)

Get an introduction to innovation and enterprise, and learn to generate and evaluate your own ideas. In the ever-changing and highly competitive world we live in, the ability to think creatively has never been more important. Get an introduction to innovation and enterprise, and gain the confidence to generate ideas so that you can make a difference, with this online course from the University of Bristol.

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You’ll learn ways to develop ideas, gain creative confidence, and turn ideas into action.
You’ll improve your problem solving capabilities, and discover problem structuring tools to tackle complex issues.
Finally, you’ll learn how to develop networks, articulate ideas, and pitch successfully.

Syllabus

Week 1: Introducing Innovation
Week 2: Understanding Problems
Week 3: Opportunities and Serendipity
Week 4: Turning your ideas into reality

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • Develop your personal resource profile and innovation style to better focus your ideas
  • Explore historic, current, and future innovations that inspire you
  • Develop a toolkit of problem-solving and idea-generating techniques
  • Investigate engineering your own luck so that you have more and better ‘accidental’ ideas
  • Identify ways to start-up an idea with a minimum of effort and expense
  • Improve your pitching and influencing skills
  • Collaborate through online networking

Who is the course for?
This course is aimed at anyone interested in innovation and enterprise in the modern world, but may be of particular interest to students who are looking to develop their transferable skills for the workplace and general day-to-day life.

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