Short Course Description
Propel Impact Entrepreneurship Lab is a semester-long course designed for interdisciplinary GMBA and design students. Invoking business skills and design thinking methodologies, students will develop innovative services aimed at solving prescient challenges.
The course will convene around a key theme to design ventures with potentially impactful paths towards the market. In a lab environment, students will actively engage in real-world problem solving, based on real-word data to promote real-world impact, around a central behavioural challenge.
Propel Impact Entrepreneurship Lab project-based learning will focus on ideation, impact business models, entrepreneurial skills, teamwork and communication needed to transform challenges into opportunities and develop innovative approaches that demonstrate the potential for measurable, sustainable economic, social and environmental impact.
Each year, the Propel Impact Entrepreneurship Lab will interface with a network of academics, industry experts, thought leaders, partner organizations and community members who serve as a real-world context for projects. Additionally, students will gain introductory exposure to relevant technologies and innovative business approaches surrounding the semester?s theme:
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