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About this Course
The third course of the specialization Learn Creative Innovation Skills will teach you what is at the core of all innovations that solve complex problems and how to foster methods to make big breakthroughs possible.
CREATING INNOVATION is constructed in the following way:
- Week I. “What is Innovation?” – What lies at the core of all innovations.
- Week II. “The Evolution of Human Creativity” – How humans developed the ability to innovate and think creatively.
- Week III. “Innovation in a Complex Global Network” – How innovations emerge from human networks.
- Week IV. “Planning Innovation” – How organizations seek out and create the right conditions for new breakthroughs.
- Week V. “Market Innovation” – What makes innovations more likely to emerge in a market setting.
- Week VI. “Innovation in the Anthropocene” – How innovations are crucial to meet the problems of the 21st century.
Syllabus
WEEK 1
2 hours to complete
What is Innovation?
Welcome to Course 3 of the specialization! In this module, Learn Creative Innovation Skills we will look at what innovation is, in the broadest possible context, and how the innovations humans devise to solve complex problems are the continuation of a much bigger and more critical trend.
6 videos (Total 42 min), 12 readings, 2 quizzes
WEEK 2
2 hours to complete
The Evolution of Human Creativity
In this module, Learn Creative Innovation Skills we will look at the main drivers of human innovation and how they have shaped the entirety of human society and history.
6 videos (Total 39 min), 11 readings, 2 quizzes
WEEK 3
2 hours to complete
Innovation in a Complex Global Network
In this module, Learn Creative Innovation Skills we will examine the information networks that arose out of increasing human complexity, from the earliest such networks to the global network that fosters human innovation today.
7 videos (Total 51 min), 13 readings, 2 quizzes
WEEK 4
3 hours to complete
Planning Innovation
This module will deal with top-down innovations, where large organizations shape their infrastructures to maximize the chances of discovering an innovative solution to a problem.
8 videos (Total 61 min), 15 readings, 2 quizzes
WEEK 5
3 hours to complete
Market Innovation
In this module, Learn Creative Innovation Skills we will examine bottom-up innovation, where the forces of supply and demand can under the right conditions foster innovation and increase the chances of them occurring.
8 videos (Total 64 min), 15 readings, 2 quizzes
WEEK 6
4 hours to complete
Innovation in the Anthropocene
In this module, we will look at the future of innovation and how we may cope with the complex problems that arise out of the Anthropocene.
7 videos (Total 43 min), 11 readings, 4 quizzes
