A14904 Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation

This course will expose students to the field of social entrepreneurshhip and innovations by learning from the experience of social entrepreneurs around the world who are developing innovative solutions to address social problems. Students will also understand the world's most pressing problems, identify hidden opportunitties for innovation and design creative solutions that can improve the state of the world.

• Introduction to social entrepreneurship and innovation
• The state of the world, understanding social problems
• Social Index Progress and Sustainable Development Goals
• Profiles of social entrepreneurs and innovators
• Innovation for social change
• Business models for social impact and triple bottom line
• Funding and investing in social enterprises
• Social Innovation sustainability, scalability and impact measurement
• Social entrepreneurship and innovation design
• Design Thinking for social innovation
• Creating shared value
• Circular and sharing economy
• Social enterprise case studies.

During this course students will attend lectures, analyze social entrepreneurship case studies and develop a group project.

a minimum of 75% attendance is required to be considered an attending student.

Course Instructions

Active class participation (10%), team presentations and case submissions (60%), course final project (30%)