Accelerated Certificate Program: Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship

Overview

Now more than ever, innovation and big ideas are essential ingredients to a business’s ability to flourish. And, as any innovator knows, it’s not enough to simply have the idea – you have to know how to implement it. Using proven methods of innovation and design thinking as a framework, students in this unique program will learn new ways to generate ideas, gain deeper insights into their clients, manage creative teams, and drive growth in companies large and small.

Benefits

• Utilize creative thinking methodologies to generate new ideas, recognize innovative business opportunities, and solve complex problems
• Examine the business models used by great business leaders in a variety of industries and learn to apply the underlying strategies to today’s economic landscape
• Develop a written marketing plan suitable for bringing an innovative product or service to market
• Create and present a business plan for an innovative product or service
• Demonstrate functional business skills in collaboration with entrepreneurs from the business community
• Gain a competitive edge in the global job market with an internship in a U.S. company

Certificate Requirements

To earn a certificate at UC Irvine’s Division of Continuing Education, students must complete all required courses with a grade of “C” or better.

Internships

As an optional last course and for an additional fee of $2,900, you have the opportunity to apply academic theory and gain practical experience in a variety of businesses and industries for 10 weeks. A research project provides additional training. Also included in the internship is the Résumé Writing and Interviewing Skills workshop.