90-845 Social Entrepreneurship
6 units, Carnegie Mellon University
The socialimpact Lean Innovation Lab Social Entrepreneurship is a continuation of the course Entrepreneurship A New Venture, designed to challenge students to tackle longstanding and emerging problems across the LearnEarnCareer landscape i.e. the Future of Work, Learning, Connection, and Opportunity. Students will have the option to select from a set of carefully curated, complex and realworld problem sets andor introduce their own problem sets within the thematic focus. Students will be presented with the option of working as an embedded frontend innovator within an established organization driving newproduct and corporate innovation or developing a solution to their problem statement as an independent new startup venture. Students will learn to apply lean innovation frameworks and tools to develop a foresight positioning and datadriven thesis and will use applied anthropology, ethnography, and quantitative analysis to develop conviction for an idea through the business invention process. A central component to the Innovation Lab is learning to synthesize and apply concepts and techniques from the Innovation Studio Process framework and across three distinctive phases Phase I Venture Design Rapid, systematic approach to research, define, envision and assess the best path forward for a new venture, product, service or experience. Research, Direction, Foundation and Investment. Phase 2 Venture Build Increased speed to market through focused sprints, and data collection and analysis, with a tailored team that matches the challenge. Team Setup, Design Sprints, Development Sprints, Data AnalysisDevelopment Phase 3 Venture Growth A lean, iterative method to market validation through tracking and testing. Launch, Scale, Measure
Prerequisites: none listed
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