
What is innovation? ... is innovation more than inventing an unconventional product, or creating a new service or process? How do innovations get created? ... What are the factors associated with success and failure? What are the roles of leadership, enterprise, creativity, and design in the process of innovation? How can you develop your capacity to lead innovation in your enterprise? This short video introduces several propositions that begin your journey towards answering these questions. If these propositions strike a chord with you, then come join a learning adventure! Enrol in course APMG 8118 Enterprise Creativity, Innovation & Design at Unitec Institute of Technology. Next course commences 28 February, 2012. Course tutor Dr Peter Mellalieu. about.me Enrolment link: www.unitec.ac.nz Course link (for 2012-2-28) APMG 8118 The course is an ELECTIVE in Unitec's Master of Business, MBus The Five Propositions Proposition 1 Successful innovation commences with finding an opportunity to improve upon convention Proposition 2 Innovation is the successful commercialisation of an opportunity through the creative combination of enterprise & design Proposition 3 The ICED elements are necessary for success ... but not sufficient Success also requires leading an enterprise to deliver innovation and create wealth Proposition 4 An enterprise must create financial, social, and/or natural wealth. Financial profit is merely the means through which the enterprise achieves its objectives <b>...</b>
innovation
entrepreneurship
enterprise
creativity
design
success
wealth creation
natural capital
social capital
leadership
entrepreneur team
obstacle
risk management
entrepreneurial process
Unitec
Unitec Institute of Technology
Peter Mellalieu
invention
John Thompson
Bill Bolton
Bettina van Stamm
Education for Enterprise
E4E
Young Enterprise Scheme
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