Fostering and Leading Innovation
Fostering and Leading Innovation teaches students to develop vision, culture, and practices that drive innovation within engineering and technical organizations while building enterprises delivering innovative technical services.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.87 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.84 GPA, 93.8% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Evaluate whether a technological solution is a business opportunity.
Understand and discuss the process of commercializing technology and the challenges associated with each phase of that process.
Identify and develop the skills and resources required for successfully managing technologies and innovative processes.
Assess and present the commercial potential of a technological solution.
Cultivate the leadership characteristics of technical organizations that successfully foster and sustain a culture of innovation.
Source: UW Guide
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Prerequisites
Course mapGraduate/professional standing. Not open to students with credit forE P D 708.
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.87 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.84 GPA, 93.8% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).
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Topics
- Innovation vision, culture, and practices in engineering and technical organizations.
- Enterprise development for innovative technical services and products.
- Technology commercialization processes and phase-specific challenges.
- Leadership characteristics for sustaining innovation cultures in technical organizations.
Skills
- Developing vision, culture, and practices to drive innovation in engineering and technical organizations.
- Building an enterprise that values, pursues, and delivers innovative technical services and products.
- Evaluating whether a technological solution represents a business opportunity.
- Understanding and discussing the technology commercialization process and its phase-specific challenges.
- Identifying and developing skills and resources for managing technologies and innovative processes.
- Assessing and presenting the commercial potential of technological solutions.
- Cultivating leadership characteristics to foster and sustain a culture of innovation in technical organizations.
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