Business Innovation Design Minor

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One of the tools you will become familiar with during the minor is the Business Model Canvas, a template that allows you to describe existing or new in a visual way. Watch the video to find out how

Business Model Canvas Explained A 2 minute overview of the Business Model Canvas, a tool for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. This method from the bestselling management book Bu...

During the first 5 weeks of the minor, you will get to know yourself and each other better while developing skills you thought were only for ‘creative’ people. You’ll form a group you are committed to collaborating with. Why? Read below how the ice-cream cone was born!

The Ice Cream Cone of Innovation: How to Collaborate Effectively – Emmanuel Gobillot 1904. The World Fair. St Louis, Missouri. Syrian immigrant Ernest Hamwi is selling zalabias (hot, round, Persian waffles). It’s a hot day so nobody is buying. A few meters from his stall, Arnold Fornachou, the ice cream man, is doing a roaring trade – so much so that he is running out of tubs. Ernes...

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"Chance favours the connected mind" Join the Business Innovation Design Minor, make meaningful connections with other intelectually curious students and get your hands dirty by working on a real innovation project at one of our partnets.

WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from? With Where Good Ideas Co...

Back in 1945 a man working on microwave radar transmitters noticed that the candy bar he had in his pocket had started to melt. With a little experimentation, he realized that the microwaves could be concentrated to heat food. “When the unexpected happens, don’t get annoyed, get curious” Watch the video below to find out how to boost your creative problem skills

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The Minor in Business Innovation Design has been developed in collaboration with Business Models Inc., UtrechtInc, digital communication agency Greenberry, the Research Group on Cooperative Entrepreneurship of the Hogeschool Utrecht and a number of corporate partners. That is why our approach is hands-on. At least two days per week you will be based in the assigned company and work closely with their employees. You can read more about the minor here: http://www.businessinnovationdesign.com/for-students/

For students – Business Innovation Design The minor is developed by the Lectorate Cooperative Entrepreneurship at the Hogeschool Utrecht in partnership with BusinessModels Inc., Greenberry and Utrechtinc.

For 15 weeks you will work on a corporate innovation project at one of our partners and for that you will be embedded part-time in a company, acting as an intrapreneur. Read more about the relationship between and below

3 Things You Don't Know About Intrapreneurship Fostering intrapreneurs inside your company can boost innovation and prepare the next generation of aspiring entrepreneurs.

One of the tools you will become familiar with during the minor is the Business Model Canvas, a template that allows you to describe existing or new business models in a visual way. Read below why Business Model Canvas is so popular and how organizations like Nestlé, SAP and MasterCard apply it.

Why and how organizations around the world adopt the Business Model Canvas | Business Models Inc. The roots of the Business Model Canvas lie in a PhD dissertation that started in 2000. Today its success goes far beyond our wildest imagination. Organizations