The E&I InnoLab course provides students with insight into selected areas in the entrepreneurship and innovation field. After successfully completing the course, students will be able to: Technical and professional skills: · Employ the design thinking method to generate innovative product, service and business model ideas and concepts. · Take a structured approach to identifying user needs not being met. · Apply various creative techniques to generate ideas. · Use iterative testing and feedback loops to review and advance approaches and assumptions. · Visualize and transform ideas into functional models. Transferable skills: · Experience and reflect on group processes and dynamics in heterogeneous teams. · Independently structure and execute complex innovation projects in teams. · Create and effectively present and defend results-oriented presentations and reports. · Identify and take advantage of the synergy effects of interdisciplinary cooperation. Additionally participants have: · Learned how to deal with an open-ended project and experienced ambiguity tolerance. · Honed and expanded their professional ability to communicate project content in writing and orally. · Practiced using complex and effective tools (e.g. databases) for research and to obtain information and data for an assignment. |