Innovation and New Venture
This program focuses on providing skills to become creative, innovative, and highly skilled leaders, able to foster strategic thinking and create procedures and processes for ideation, prototyping and production. The program will help the Entrepreneurs, students to recognise, identify and grow their enterprising skills for setting up a successful venture
Course Curriculum
- Overview, Importance and Multidisciplinarity
- Focusing on needs to identify/define innovation opportunities
- Why innovation is necessary
- Assessing the need for stakeholders
- Tools to analyse the value of an idea, SWOT, Unidimensional reports
- Economic modelling: budgets
Faculty
JOSEPH JANKOWSKI, Ph.D.
Dr. Jankowski holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the State University of New York's College of Environmental Sciences, an M.B.A. from the Weatherhead School of Management and a dual B.S. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering Technologies from the University of Dayton. Dr. Joseph Jankowski joined Henry Ford Innovations as leader of its technology management group. He is a nationally-recognized commercialization leader, specializing in early-stage biomedical opportunity assessment and corporate financing and structuring. He has contributed to the formation of more than 40 new enterprises (‘spinoff companies’) and has held leadership positions in multiparty innovation programs that include the NIH CTSA Key Functions Committee and the Philips Global Advanced Imaging Innovation Center.