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3 new Postgraduate Certificates in Entrepreneurship & Innovation launched

Published: 23 Dec, 2021

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Closing date: 14 February 2022

Funded by Springboard+ (fee of €258 payable for those in employment)

Part-Time Blended Learning

16 weeks- 2 Semesters of 8 weeks (Feb- May 22 and Sept- Dec 22)

 

The Graduate Business School has launched three new postgraduate certificates (NFQ level 9, 30 credits) available through springboard+, starting February 2022. The programmes will be delivered by a blend of weekly online plus on-campus delivery over 5 Saturdays.

  1. Postgraduate Certificate in Design Thinking and Innovation
  2. Postgraduate Certificate in Digital Entrepreneurship
  3. Postgraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (for Women)

1. Postgraduate Certificate in Design Thinking and Innovation

Course overview:

The Postgraduate Certificate in Design Thinking and Innovation looks at how individuals and organisations use creativity and design thinking skills to identify and choose opportunities that enable innovation. Creative problem solving skills are developed and enhanced through a range of real world activities. An overview of design thinking tools is provided to help learners understand design thinking as a problem solving approach. Ideas developed through these processes are then applied to a customer discovery approach to understand their value in the market place.

The programme will provide students with a clear understanding of the importance of innovation to the success of the firm and to the economy at large. It will explore the different classifications of innovation and the process of managing innovation effectively within the organisation in addition to the creative process at company level. It will provide students with an excellent grasp of the principles underlying creative thinking and problem solving and how to map innovation opportunities, and will explore different types of innovation strategies, how to develop partnerships across organisational boundaries and how to involve people and share knowledge. Students will also discover tools and techniques for developing ideas and managing innovation.

Participants on the programme will learn how to build organisations that support innovative thinking, and acquire the skills, processes, and methodologies to respond to challenged and opportunities. During the programme, the learner will work to on their own problem statements and complete a portfolio of solutions, innovation playbooks, commercialisation plans, and innovation system designs to bring back to their organisation, start-up or peers. The overarching pedagogical framework will facilitate the learner’s attempts to create value by experiencing, playing, observing, creating, and thinking.

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2. Postgraduate Certificate in Digital Entrepreneurship

Course overview:

The Postgraduate Certificate in Digital Entrepreneurship is project-based programme targeted at learners that want to become leaders in digital communication and/or start-ups.

The programme provides learners with the opportunity to embrace e-business through an entrepreneurial approach. Entrepreneurship can mean start-ups and the creation of new ventures, as well as the development of innovative projects within larger organisations. The programme explores how digital technologies enhance innovation through new business models, e-commerce and digital communication, allowing learners to acquire competencies in strategy, marketing, and entrepreneurship in digital enterprise context. 

The programme alternates various pedagogical methods and involves regular engagement with industry experts and digital entrepreneurs. This begins at the outset of the programme where guest speakers provide their explanations as to how digital entrepreneurship models are different to traditional entrepreneurship models. Following this, and particularly through the Digital Entrepreneurship 10 ECTS module, the programme design sees the learner develop their own digital entrepreneurship across distinct development phases.

Learners demonstrate their knowledge and job readiness through an integrated portfolio of projects that links to personal learning objectives, including a consulting mission provided by TU Dublin GROWTH HUB enterprise partners or their own entrepreneurial project.

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3. Postgraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (for Women)

Course overview:

The Postgraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation for women is as person-focused programme supporting the development of entrepreneurial growth mindsets that enable learners to be continuously entrepreneurial and focused on changing opportunities to grow and scale.

The Postgraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation for women is as person-focused programme supporting the development of entrepreneurial growth mindsets that enable learners to be continuously entrepreneurial and focused on changing opportunities to grow and scale. The programme aims to enable learners to identify, analyse, and select actions to take with respect to specific opportunities for entrepreneurial ventures, be they start-ups or new propositions in established organisations, and to understand and articulate a venture’s value proposition through the identification of articulated and unarticulated needs. Restricting the programme for women only facilitates tailoring of the context of the programme to women. There will be specific reflection on evidence-based issues for promoting entrepreneurship for women including the provision of role models, consideration of resilience frameworks, development of networks, and use of case studies and other learning materials involving women entrepreneurs. This will be supported by engagement of women entrepreneurs as guest speakers across the modules, and particularly in the Personal Entrepreneurial Capital – Women Entrepreneurs module.

The programme is designed to link with important TU Dublin initiatives that seek to support entrepreneurship in groups where such activity is currently under-represented. The programme will link to the TU Dublin WE Support initiative that seeks to support women entrepreneurs, and initiatives with potential will be channelled to the TU Dublin technology transfer office Hothouse and its New Frontiers Programme.

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