by Drew Boyd | Apr 15, 2013 | Academic Focus, Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Inside the Box Innovation, The Economist
The University of Cincinnati announced it will launch its first Massive Open Online Course (called MOOC) next fall. It will be the first MOOC to teach Systematic Inventive Thinking (S.I.T.), an innovation method based on templates. MOOCs are unique because they allow...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 25, 2013 | Academic Focus, Creative Valentines Day, Evaluation Ideas, Inside the Box Innovation, Subtraction, The Economist
The University of Deusto business school is offering a masters degree in business innovation (MBI) that I believe serves as an excellent role model for other schools. It is unique because it focuses on three foundations: The Approach to Observation: Business...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 17, 2012 | Academic Focus, Evaluation Ideas, Inside the Box Innovation, Subtraction, The Economist
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) wants business schools to do more to support innovation. It wants schools to reinvent curricula to be more integrative and convene executive programs that create new ideas and networks. “Through...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 20, 2012 | Academic Focus, Evaluation Ideas, Inside the Box Innovation, Subtraction, The Economist
With six of its faculty members earning the Nobel Prize, it is hard to associate the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with anything else but economics. In reality, it is an innovator in many other areas. It was the first to initiate a PhD program in...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 24, 2011 | Academic Focus, Advertising Tools, Evaluation Ideas, Jared Diamond, Pinterest, The Economist
This month’s Academic Focus features Professor John Hauser and the highly-regarded team at MIT. Perhaps no other university in the world stands for innovation as much as this one. MIT is an innovation powerhouse because of the way the faculty looks at innovation...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 1, 2011 | Academic Focus, Inside the Box Innovation, Kickstarter, The Economist
The University of Queensland’s Technology and Innovation Management Centre (TIMC) is an international leader in research on technological innovation. The center was established in 1989 as a Centre of Excellence in technology management. Its goal is to be at the...
