Innovation Training Courses
The Innovation Training Micro-certification offers short, asynchronous learning modules focused around a high-level understanding of the innovation and commercialization of research outcomes, as well as entrepreneurship. These modules aim to create awareness of how research results can be translated into impact outside the research institution.
Innovation Courses
This course explores how adopting a growth mindset can enhance innovation by encouraging continuous learning, resilience, and adaptability in individuals and teams.
IT 100: Growth Mindset in Innovation
This course discusses the distinction between impact and Impact in research, where Impact - with a capital "I"- emphasizes engaging the community from the very beginning of the research process.
IT 110: Impact Research
During this course, participants will gain a better understanding of ‘traditional’ research, translational research, and use-inspired research.
IT 120: Building Impact Research
Commercialization Courses
This course is an overview of the journey an idea/early-stage technology takes from the lab, through the Technology Commercialization process, and ultimately into the community.
IT 150: Idea to Impact
This course provides an overview of intellectual property (IP) in the innovation space, highlighting what exactly IP is and is not.
IT 160: Protecting Your Idea
This course provides an overview of social innovation and how it can be commercialized/disseminated into the larger community to provide tangible benefit to the population.
IT 170: Social Innovation to Effectuate Impact
Entrepreneurship Courses
This course outlines how to identify key stakeholders and strategies for engaging them effectively throughout the innovation process.
IT 130: Engaging Stakeholders
This course overviews the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems, detailing the various types that support entrepreneurial activity.
IT 140: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
This course explores various types of innovation funding, giving an overview on where to find potential support for their technology.
IT 180: Who’s Writing the Checks
This course introduces concepts related to writing forward looking commercialization strategy sections in basic science and translational research grants.