Courses Offered

Webinar 1: Innovation – The Foundation of Entrepreneurship
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Content:
- What is innovation? Why does it matter?
- Innovation as a core business process
- Knowledge push vs. need-pull innovations
- Activity: Brainstorm innovation challenges in different industries.
- Discussion: Is innovation manageable or just random?

Webinar 2: Building Innovative Organizations
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Content:
- Creating new products and services
- Open innovation and collaboration
- Innovation for new venture creation
- Activity: Develop a collaborative innovation model for a case study.
- Discussion: Co-operating across networks vs. going solo.

Webinar 3: Opportunity Recognition & Startup Mindset
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Content:
- Opportunity recognition strategies
- Entrepreneurship as a management style
- Competitive advantage through IPR (Intro)
- Activity: Identify startup opportunities in a chosen industry.
- Case Study: Successful startup journeys.

Webinar 4: Financial Planning for Startups
- Duration: 2 hours
- Content:
- Financial projections and valuations
- Stages of financing (Debt, VC, Angel Investors)
- Activity: Create a simple financial model for a startup idea.
- Q&A: Financing challenges entrepreneurs face.

Webinar 5: Introduction to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
- Duration: 2 hours
- Content:
- Economics behind IPR
- IPR development in India and globally
- IP management and marketing
- Activity: Draft a basic IP protection strategy for a product.
- Discussion: The role of IPR in business growth.

Webinar 6: Types of Intellectual Property
- Duration: 2 hours
- Content:
- Patents, trademarks, geographical indications, copyrights, industrial designs
- Licensing, infringement, and penalties
- Case Study: Famous court battles over IPR violations.
- Activity: Roleplay patent filing for a hypothetical product.

Webinar 7: Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs
- Duration: 2 hours
- Content:
- Introduction to Design Thinking (DT)
- Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test phases
- Activity: Conduct a DT session for a real-world challenge.
- Hands-On: Create personas and value proposition statements.

Webinar 8: From Prototypes to Impact
- Duration: 2 hours
- Content:
- Testing and refining prototypes
- Aligning DT with Agile methods
- Storytelling and pitching for funding
- Activity: Pitch practice with feedback.
- Q&A: Building resilience in entrepreneurship.