Technology Innovation for Sustainable Development

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 6 weeks

所在平台: EdxArchive 课程类别: 其他类别 大学或机构: epflx 授课老师： Solomzi Makohliso PhD Klaus Schönenberger PhD

课程主页: https://www.edx.org/archive/technology-innovation-sustainable-epflx-innov4devx

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Technology innovation can be a great enabler for development in low and middle-income countries. This course presents a methodology and an approach to develop impactful innovations that have the power to foster sustainable development.

Whether you are from an industrialized or a developing country, whether you are employed in a company, an NGO, an international organization or a government. Whether you are an academic, an independent entrepreneur, or simply a passionate individual, this course is for you.

You will learn how, as an innovator, you can help solve important issues that burden those living in poverty.

Through practical examples, we will demonstrate how you can take your initiative from a blank sheet of paper through to large-scale deployment of your technology innovation.

This course is not just about coming up with a nice idea, or designing a nice prototype, but more importantly, about sustainably deploying it at large scale.

It fosters an entrepreneurial approach, as you will learn how to design business models that are relevant to address development-related challenges. It encourages co-creating the solution with the key stakeholders involved, including the affected populations.

Coming-up with solutions that are more affordable and more durable, that require less use of consumables and electricity while still being economically viable, concerns all of us, and not just the people living in poverty.

There is no previous knowledge required.

课程大纲

• Determine how contextual factors influence technology development and deployment.
• Create innovative technologies that sustainably impact poverty.
• Lead a technology innovation process -from initial concept to product scale-up- maximizing impact and minimizing risk.
• Evaluate alternative business models for technologies intended to impact poverty.

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