Innovation, Business Models and Entrepreneurship

By Prof. Rajat Agrawal, Prof. Vinay Sharma | IIT Roorkee

Learners enrolled: 8321

The course titled "Innovation, Business Models and Entrepreneurship", is designed to give an in-depth understanding on various aspects of innovation, creativity, evolving business models, incubation and entrepreneurship. The course also includes sessions on blue ocean strategy and technology incubation which are proving as game changer in today's competitive scenario. Course also deals with role of IPR and IP management in innovation management. The course is a blend of theory and practice therefore this course does not require any prerequisite and will be useful to understand innovation and its applications in different spheres of development and growth.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Students of M.B.A., M.Tech, M.Des.,Students interested in Entrepreneurship,Working Professionals who want to use innovation as a strategic tool.

PREREQUISITES: NIL

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: (1) All leading companies in area of R & D, technology and business incubators, start-ups, innovation Management, (2) Course is also suitable to SMEs as some of the modules are designed keeping SMEs needs in mind.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Management Studies Patents and Intellectual Property Rights
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	23 Aug 2021
End Date :	15 Oct 2021
Enrollment Ends :	30 Aug 2021
Exam Date :	24 Oct 2021 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1 : Analyzing the Current Business Scenario, Innovation and Creativity- An Introduction, Innovation in Current Environment, Types of Innovation , School of Innovation.
Week 2 : Challenges of Innovation,Steps of Innovation Management,Idea Management System,Divergent V/s Convergent Thinking,Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship
Week 3 : Experimentation in Innovation Management, Idea Championship,Participation for Innovation, Co-creation for Innovation, Proto typing to Incubation.
Week 4 : What is a Business Model,Who is an Entrepreneur,Social Entrepreneurship,Blue Ocean Strategy-I,Blue Ocean Strategy-II
Week 5 : Marketing of Innovation, Technology Innovation Process, Technological Innovation Management Planning, Technological Innovation Management Strategies, Technology Forecasting.
Week 6 : Sustainability Innovation and Entrepreneurship,Innovation Sustainable Conditions,Innovation: Context and Pattern,SME’S strategic involvement in sustainable development,Exploration of business models for material efficiency services
Week 7 : Management of Innovation, creation of IPR ,Management of Innovation, creation of IPR,Types of IPR,Patents and Copyrights, Patents in India
Week 8 : Business Models and value proposition, Business Model Failure: Reasons and Remedies, Incubators : Business Vs Technology, Managing Investor for Innovation , Future markets and Innovation needs for India.

Books and references

1. 8 Steps To Innovation : Going From Jugaad To Excellence- Book by Rishikesha T. Krishnan and Vinay Dabholkar

2. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Book by Peter Drucker

3. HBS series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Instructor bio

Prof. Rajat Agrawal

IIT Roorkee

Dr. Rajat Agrawal is a Professor at Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee. He is Associate Dean for Innovation and Incubation, IPR Chair Professor of DPIIT, Govt of India at IIT Roorkee.

He is a Joint faculty member at Center of Excellence for Disaster Mitigation and Management and Associate faculty member at Center of Excellence for Transportation Management, IIT Roorkee. He initiated the process of establishing the Design Innovation Centre at IIT Roorkee and presently Co-PI and Co-coordinator of the Centre. Dr. Rajat was a visiting fellow to Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark. He was awarded ICCR Chair at Indonesia in year 2016-17. His area of interest is Production and Operations Management including Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Strategy and World Class Manufacturing.

He has guided 19 Ph D thesis in these areas and currently 12 students are working under his guidance. He has completed 12 research/consultancy projects of National and

International importance. Three projects worth over Rs2.5 Cr are in progress.

He has more than 120 research papers in refereed journals and more than 25 research papers in refereed conference proceedings. He has authored one book published by Bloomsbury and book chapters in 8 books. He organized First PANIIT International Management Conference in year 2018.

Prof. Vinay Sharma

Vinay Sharma is a professor with the Department of Management Studies and a Joint Professor with Department of Design at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, a 175 Years globally known Institution. He has around 28 years of Experience, in the areas of Marketing, Innovation, Rural Marketing, Business Opportunity Development, Market Development, Brand Development; IT enabled Services, Spiritual Orientation for Market Prosperity Development, Forest Bio residue based Energy and Teaching for past Twenty years. One of his recent PhD projects, wherein he guided an IFS officer for developing a forest bio-residue briquetting machine to develop a value chain for household energy generation for the forest users of North-West-Himalayan region is in the phase of implementation and has been considered as a success story by NMHS (the project funding organization).

His book publications include 'Masters Speak on Management Education' in India, published by Bloomsbury India and ' Affordability for the Poor and Profitability for the Provider' wherein he has designed and proposed a specialized model acknowledged at various platforms. He has guided 12 PhDs, and a Post Doctoral Research and 4 PhDs are being pursued. He has considerable experience of working with various organizations in the fields of Media, Information Technology and Social Development along with having worked with one of the largest read newspapers' of the World. Vinay Sharma has been teaching Marketing and the allied subjects, at various prestigious institutions. His areas of interests also include Poverty Alleviation and Rural Market Development through Business Development, Market Development and Technology. He has contributed an Appendix on Rural Marketing in the 13th edition of Philip Kotler's Principles of Marketing.

He was an associate and a member of the founding group of the Network of Asia Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance constituted by Asian Development Bank in December 2004. He has published and presented around 85 papers, Chaired sessions at national and international platforms, developed and published 16 case studies based on primary research and has conducted more than 100 workshops, seminars, FDPs and MDPs also for CEOs and MDs along with senior executives.

He is a member of the Editorial Board of several prestigious journals and is also the member of academic and advisory councils and Board of Management of prestigious institutions and bodies. He has also been a working group member of Ganga River Basin Environment Management Plan, a Pan IIT project.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 24 October 2021 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 6 assignments out of the total 8 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee.It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

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