INTE 298/AA (Winter 2024): SPECIAL TOPICS

Welcome to INTE 298: Innovation Models and Concepts

This course introduces students to frameworks and concepts that are foundational to understanding and driving innovation in organizations. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and hands-on activities, students learn about design thinking and systemic design – two key models to foster innovation. Through practical application of design thinking or systemic design, students discover innovation concepts such as exploring challenging innovation areas, conducting user interviews, creating visual syntheses, writing reframing statements, brainstorming, prototyping, conducting usability tests and developing an innovation concept proposal. They will learn about the different types of innovation, including incremental, radical, and disruptive innovation, and their particularities in terms of impact, influence and potential.