IBA Lab II

Course Objective
This course is an experimental and experiential learning lab. You will focus on implementing the impactful business idea that you have developed in IBA Lab I.

Bridging Theory & Practice

After successfully completing this course, the student:

• Understands the myriad tensions and challenges entrepreneurs face when blending social and economic aims (Knowledge)

• Can use innovation and design thinking techniques to discover new ways to overcome entrepreneurial challenges (Application)

Social Professional Skills:

After successfully completing this course, the student:

• Has developed social skills to collaborate across boundaries within diverse ecosystems

Broadening Your Horizon.

After successfully completing this course, the student:

• Has a strong orientation towards ethical and responsible entrepreneurship

Self-Awareness.

After successfully completing this course, the student:

• Can reflect upon individual capacity to manage complex demands and reflectively adapt entrepreneurial goals

Course Content
Unsolved societal challenges are an untapped source of new business opportunities. In this course, you will learn through first-hand experience how to become an empowered and socially-minded entrepreneur by developing your own business that combines economic and social goals. Building on the fundamentals of the entrepreneurial mindset acquired from IBA Lab I, this course will further underscore that socially-minded entrepreneurs rarely operate as individual “lone wolves,” but rather are reflective practitioners who skilfully navigate and leverage network and ecosystem relationships to effect systemic change.

Teaching Methods
Tutorials, Lectures, On-site visits.

The student will be supported in developing innovative and impactful business ideas in a collaborative way by teaching, tutoring, coaching and training.

Type of Assessment
Practical assignments - group

Practical assignments - individual

Participation assignments