Leverage what you already know or do well:

Lekue
1. Is it possible to be an entrepreneur and innovator without
having to acquire new or original knowledge and skills?
2. What can we do with a product that already exists (not
creating a new product, but rather?)
a. Find a ____________ use for that product.
b. Manufacture the product differently, more _________,
_______, or in a more ________________ friendly way.
c. Find new ___________ to sell it to.

Being an entrepreneur is overcoming difficulties

1. Entrepreneurship is more of an _______________ than a
_________.
2. Who is Richard Turere?
3. Does an entrepreneur wait for the ideal conditions before
beginning?
4. How does determination play a role in entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurship from within companies and

organizations
1. What is the difference between an entrepreneur and
intrapreneur?
2. Is it necessary to start your own business to be an
entrepreneur?
3. Give an example of an intrapreneur.

Entrepreneurship in your home territory

1. Why did Antonio want to use solar energy?
2. How many countries does Energy Panel export to?
3. What are the benefits of being a local entrepreneur?
4. Is the internet useful to entrepreneurs in small towns?
How?

Entrepreneurship learning from mistakes:

Nespresso
1. What is the main challenge for most entrepreneurs?
2. What are mistakes an opportunity for?
3. How many years did it take for Nespresso to become
successful?
4. Why did Nestle invent the name Nespresso?
5. What is a good way to overcome mistakes?
6. How important is failing in entrepreneurship? Why?
7. Give an example of an entrepreneur who failed countless
times before succeeding.

Entrepreneur test
1. Entrepreneurial attitude is characterized by:
a. Having a special skill or capacity
b. Creating an innovative business
c. The effort to overcome obstacles and solve problems
2. Entrepreneurship is:
a. Having a local business
b. More than an attitude than a skill
c. Knowing how to convince people who are around you
3. Entrepreneurial attitude comes from:
a. The inheritance of a family business
b. As a response to a necessity or a different opportunity
c. What youve been taught
4. To be an entrepreneur it is not necessary:
a. To create your own business
b. To be creative
c. Think of an idea
5. __________________ are known as those people who adopt
innovative attitudes in the jobs that are developed inside a
business or organization.
a. Entrepreneurs
b. Intrapreneurs
c. Interpreneurs
6. Many innovative and successful businesses and initiatives are
based on __________ that their promoters already had before
putting into action a new idea.
a. The knowledge and the experience
b. The needs
c. The ideas
7. _________________ is one of the biggest barriers for an innovator.
a. Not having ideas
b. No having talent
c. Being afraid of failure
8. Many innovative ideas, businesses and initiatives have
become successful after_________________.
a. Copying other cases that were successful
b. Having failed first
c. Waiting for the best conditions possible before taking action
9. _______________________ be an entrepreneur and innovator
without needing to acquire new or specifically original
knowledge or skills.
a. You cant
b. You can
 c. You can try to
10. The main reason that entrepreneurs have to get started
is:
a. Having the opportunity to create employment
b. Experiencing a new professional experience
c. Being able to do what you are passionate about and enjoy
doing

Different uses of a tennis ball

Take five minutes to come up with ten unusual ways to use a tennis
ball

Ide Description

a
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

What do you like doing? What activities are you really good at?

I love I like I dont like

Training a football Taking photos Taking the dog for a

team walk
Using skype
Flying a micro Playing basketball
helicopter Showing others how to
win at video games Dancing
Playing the piano
Chatting/texting Gardening
Speaking languages
Exercising
Reading
 For each of these scenarios and problems identify opportunities for
entrepreneurship. The last two columns have been left for you to fill in by
yourselves.
Guiding questions: Why? Why not?
o What do you find strange/abnormal? Could you change it?
o What tasks cannot easily be carried out?
o What is lacking to improve the whole experience?

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Choosing the problem

Rate each problem with a score of 1 to 5 (1= nothing / 5= a lot)
o Importance (problem affects many people (5) or not many (1))
o Efficiency (will be a radical change (5) or just an improvement (1)
o Viability (we can solve the problem ourselves (5) or the problem is
beyond us (1))

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Learning English in
summer
Watering the plants
without getting the
neighbors wet
The alarm clock
wakes up everyone
Littering in the
countryside
Difficulty of using
mobile phones for
elderly people

o The problem (with the highest total, number 1 ranking) selected is:
_______________________________________________

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Now create your own graph.

Problem Imp E V R
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o The problem selected is ..

Using the questions, give a concise description of the problem that

you propose to solve and the reasons that you have led you to
choose it.

1. What is the problem? Why does it occur?

2. Who does it affect? How many of them are there?
3. Is it a serious problem for them?
4. What makes you think that you will be able to solve it?
5. Is there any special reason why you have chosen it?

_____________________________________________________________________

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_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

Brainwriting

Instructions

1. Arrange the desks in a circle so you can write comfortably.

2. Each of your must take a piece of paper and pen.
3. Present the challenge in the form of a question. How could we..?
4. Each person will respond quickly to the question at the top of the sheet of
paper. As soon as you have responded pass the sheet of paper to the person
sitting on your left.
5. Now you have to respond to the initial question again, but without repeating
any of the answer that you have given or any of those that already appear
on the sheet.
6. Repeat the operation of changing sheets around ten times. You should find it
more difficult to find different answers each time and, therefore, they have to
be more creative.
 The whole team has to contribute ideas in the form of possible

solutions to the challenge or problem. Bear in mind the following:

o Quantity: the more ideas, the better. In this initial phase of

creativity, the quantity of ideas is more important than their quality.

o Being positive: making sure that no one critics. It is forbidden to say

no or never. It is not the time to look for possible obstacles or

difficulties with the ideas proposed.

o Being active: everyone must take part
o No limits: ANY kind of idea is valid, even if it seems extreme, radical,

strange or impossible. No ideas are too crazy.

o Speed: do not spend too much time on the same line of thought.

Approach the problem from different perspectives or points of view.

o Mix and combine: use ideas that have already come up as a

starting point for generating other new or creative ideas.

SCAMPER
Scamper is a creativity method based on
asking a series of questions intended to tackle all the
possible ways in which you can change a product:

S: substitute (materials, components, etc.)
C: combine, mix
A: adapt (alter, change the function, use another element)
M: modify (increase/reduce the size, change the form:
color)
P: put to another use
E: eliminate (eliminate elements, simplify, reduce
functionality)
R: reverse (inverse the objective, working in reverse)

Objective:
....

Substituting
 Can we change any part of it?
What is it that really bothers us?
What is superfluous?
Combining
Can we do anything else at the same time?
What can we add so that it works better?
Adapting
Is there anything else that achieves the same objective?
Can we put it to other uses?
Modifying
What happens if it is a hundred times bigger, heavier, slower?
What happens if it is a hundred times smaller, lighter, faster?
Putting it to another use
Can we use the parts separately? What could they be used
for?
Reversing
How could we achieve an outcome that is the opposite of
the present one? What could it be used for?



Problems/challenges to solve via

Brainwriting.
1. Cluttered pencil cases
2. Not enough space on the metro
3. Butter that wont spread on bread when its cold
4. Storing phones/keys/etc while exercising
5. Receipts
6. Sheets that wont stay on the bed
7. Textbooks that wont stay open
8. Muffins or pastries that stick to the paper
9. Losing the remote control
10. Too short/too long cords (for phones, lights,

etc)
11. Storing solar or wind energy
12. The opposite of a microwave (making things

or beverages cold rather than hot)

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