ACP Innovation Management and 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 ACP Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship program from University of California, Irvine (UCI) 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

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.