Accelerating Innovation
Explores how startups and business accelerators create and diffuse innovation, covering startup economics, acceleration platforms, innovation sourcing, and innovation mindsets.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Articulate the startup model and business accelerator model of innovation that is driving the entrepreneurial economy.
Explain how external innovation is financed.
Utilize analytic skills and effective communication to present an investment decision and logic to decision-makers.
Source: UW Guide
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Course mapGraduate/professional standing or declared in graduate Business Exchange program
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- Graduate/professional standing
- declared in graduate Business Exchange program
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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).
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Topics
- Basic economics of startups and business accelerators
- Development of acceleration platforms
- Accelerator model of innovation sourcing and selection
- Fostering mindsets of innovation
- Financing of external innovation
Skills
- Articulate the startup and business accelerator models of innovation in the entrepreneurial economy.
- Explain the mechanisms for financing external innovation.
- Present investment decisions and supporting logic to stakeholders using analytic and communication skills.
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