Carnegie Mellon University

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Integrative Design, Arts, and Technology

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Create value with your ideas and venture

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Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Innovation & Entrepreneurship is for thinkers, dreamers, problem solvers, and realists. Students quickly learn the myth of the lone creative genius is just that, a myth, and the most transformative ideas and viable businesses come from creativity and repeatable innovation processes, business strategies and models, focused work, and a commitment to tackling real-world problems to bring value to people and the market. Through multidisciplinary coursework and a diverse cadre of faculty experts in business, technology, engineering, and design you will learn how to research, ideate, visualize, and strategize taking an idea or venture forward from multiple perspectives and collaborations. You can expect to expand as a critical thinker while adding hard and soft skills in your toolkit through hands-on learning experiences.

Specifically, you will take courses that emphasize

Experiential learning through real-world problems, scenarios, case studies, etc.
Critical thinking skills to understand problems, analyze strategies, determine approaches
Multidisciplinary teamwork and collaboration
Innovation processes, business models, strategies, and approaches
2D and 3D prototyping and visualizing of concepts and solutions

The minor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship is offered by the Tepper School of Business as part of IDeATe.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Minor Requirements

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Minor
Prerequisite Course	73-102 Principles of Microeconomics prerequisite for 70-438 Commercialization and Innovation
One Innovation & Entrepreneurial Mindset Course	70-246 Innovation & Entrepreneurial Mindset
One Portal Course	For students without prior Design or Product Design experience: 15-294 Rapid Prototyping Technologies or 15-394 Intermediate Rapid Prototyping or 51-236 Information Design or 62-478 digiTOOL For students without prior programming or computing experience: 15-104 Introduction to Computing for Creating Practice
One Entrepreneurship Course	70-415 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship
One Venture Creation Course	70-395 Funding Entrepreneurial Ventures 70-416 New Venture Creation
one innovation process course	70-438 Commercialization and Innovation 73-102 Principles of Microeconomics is a prereq
one product development course	49-300 Integrated Product Conceptualization or 49-313 Designing for the Internet of Things
One Practice/Experience Component	70-416 New Venture Creation (if you did not take it as your Venture Creation option) or Swartz Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Innovation Scholars Program or Swartz Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project Olympus Probe - Working on your own startup (12 weeks full-time in summer or throughout one full academic year) or Students may also, with prior approval of Dave Mawhinney, fulfill this requirement through an internship with a qualifying startup or product design firm (12 weeks, full-time). If interested in this option, students should email Dave Mawhinney during their internship search to arrange a discussion on this option.
Additional course options as available. Please check IDeATe Courses for the options for the current and upcoming semester.
Double-counting: Students may double-count up to two of their IDeATe minor courses for other requirements.

How to Participate

IDeATe collaborates with the Tepper School of Business to offer an undergraduate minor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, which is open to students from any major. Students interested in the minor should contact the IDeATe advisor to discuss curriculum and to make a loose plan of study.

All students are welcome to take IDeATe's Innovation & Entrepreneurship courses to fulfill requirements or to explore an area of interest. Pursuing the minor is not required to take the courses.