School:Duke University

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SPRING 2018 PRIORITIES

Strategy #1: Increase experiential learning opportunities 

Applied Design Thinking Course: Implement a design thinking course within the Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship program to fill the gap in experiential learning opportunities at Duke and give students a chance to learn by doing. The goal is to get students comfortable with ideation and rapid prototyping, and then to partner with a local nonprofit to implement an innovative product/process. 

MILESTONES:

Buy-in on the course structure - April 2018

Choosing an instructor - Summer 2018

Finalize syllabus - Summer 2018

Engage local nonprofits - Fall 2018

University Innovation Fellows: Winny Arindrani, Zoe De Bruycker, Griffin Mueller, Justin Tang

Peter's Landscape Analysis (Presentation Summary)

Academic Programs

• Entrepreneurship training for graduate students:
  • School of Public Policy Enterprising Leadership Initiative
  • Law and Entrepreneurship LLM
  • Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Environmental School
  • CONCEPT Entrepreneurship center at Nursing School
  • Extensive training in Engineering and Business Schools
• Potential to transfer from Senior Design Project to more extensive Senior Thesis
• Design and innovation courses across disciplines

Student Initiatives

• Students lead charge with many school resources (see below)

School Resources

• DUHATCH- student incubator, primarily for engineering students
• Coulter Grant for Biomedical Engineering initiatives
• Need a space to invent products, access commercially viable prototyping tools
• Design Kitchen coming soon to new Engineering building
• Duke Global Entrepreneurship Network- offers resources like Entrepreneurship manual
• Resources open to undergraduates:
  • Duke in Silicon Valley
  • Duke Summer Innovation Program
  • InCube Incubator
  • Duke Startup Challenge

University Innovation Fellow: Peter Hollender