INNO 6318 — Innovation Driven Strategy

2 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: falltypical days: MBostonOnlineOnlineTraditional

Introduces a number of entrepreneurship and innovation topics, including innovation and entrepreneurship as a value-creating activity for economies and firms; types of innovation (technological, process, products, business models); fundamentals of product development (design thinking, rapid prototyping, ethnography); startup creation and articulating a value proposition; the role and traits of the entrepreneur; maximizing odds of success and minimizing odds of failure; growing the startup and creating a market; finding or creating the right niche; pivoting and judo strategy; lean startup approach; innovation in established firms and resistance to change; organizational inertia; business model change; and technological discontinuities.

Offering history

Term	Sections	Enrolled	Capacity	Full	Open seats/section
Summer B 2023	1	41	41	100%	0.0
Fall 2023	3	114	123	93%	3.0
Summer B 2024	1	53	54	98%	1.0
Fall 2024	3	157	222	71%	21.7
Summer B 2025	2	123	204	60%	40.5
Fall 2025	3	171	296	58%	41.7

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 51% · T 0% · W 21% · Th 30% · F 0%

Common patterns: async (49% of sections), MR (30% of sections), MW (21% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Fernando Suarez (85% of students) · reviews
Jack Salerno (15% of students) · reviews

Summer B

Tucker Marion (64% of students) · reviews
Fernando Suarez (36% of students) · reviews

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Links

Official catalog (INNO course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All INNO courses · Plan it at numap.app

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