Descriptif

This course focuses on the challenges of turning new technologies into impactful sustainable innovations. The course examines these challenges at two levels. First, adopting a design thinking approach students will learn how to assess and define user needs for sustainable technologies, and how to develop new products and services around these needs. Using a real-life case study, students will work through the design thinking process that encompasses the empathy phase, the analysis phase, and ideation and prototyping phase as well as the process of involving diverse stakeholder groups in this process. Second, students will learn how to assess and define the resources needed to bring innovations for a sustainable future to the market. Using a real-life case study, students will examine how to develop a competitive advantage around an innovation and how to assemble the resources (team, intellectual property, partnerships, etc.) that are needed to support that competitive advantage