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APEX - Center For Social Innovation

The document outlines the course structure for an Introduction to Social Innovation program run by APEX | Center for Social Innovation over two semesters. The course covers key topics related to social innovation including the nature and history of innovation, social entrepreneurship, sustainable development goals, design thinking, field research methods, stakeholder analysis, problem definition, ideation, business modeling, and prototyping. Students participate in field visits, expert talks, and develop a social innovation project which is exhibited at the end of the course.

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APEX - Center For Social Innovation

The document outlines the course structure for an Introduction to Social Innovation program run by APEX | Center for Social Innovation over two semesters. The course covers key topics related to social innovation including the nature and history of innovation, social entrepreneurship, sustainable development goals, design thinking, field research methods, stakeholder analysis, problem definition, ideation, business modeling, and prototyping. Students participate in field visits, expert talks, and develop a social innovation project which is exhibited at the end of the course.

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APEX | Center for Social Innovation

Course: Introduction to Social Innovation | 2020-21

Course Structure
Semester - 1
Semester Week Session Key Topics
Week 1 Introduction to Social Innovation Program • Introduce the Social Innovation Program
• Course Outcomes (Knowledge, Skill & Attitude)
• Pre-requisites
• Deliverables - Journey from Idea to Pre-incubation

Week 2 Nature and history of innovation • What is Innovation?


• What is the history of human innovation?
• How do ideas become innovation?
Semester • How can innovations be bad for wellbeing? What ensures innovations serve
1 the People, Planet & Profits?

Week 3 What is social innovation/social Enterprise? • What makes an innovation “social”? Anti-social?
• What does "social" in an innovation, organization or enterprise allow us to
measure?
• What is the difference between social innovation and social enterprise.

Week 4 Introduction to sustainable development goals • Introduction to the SDG's.


• What is required to achieve the SDGs by 2030?

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Week 5 Expert Talk •Discussed problems on the Sector
•Localised Solution
•Q&A Session with the Students

Week 6 Design Thinking • What is Design Thinking?


• Phases in Design thinking
• When to use Design Thinking?

Week 7 Field visit tools and methods • What is field research?


• What are the methods and tools used in field visit

Week 8 Field Visit Team visit communities to undersatnd the problem based on the sector.

Week 9 Field Visit experience sharing session Team shares their experience and learning from the field visit

Week Understanding the system - What, who, how •Problem solving and methods to analyse the system in
10 why? all the aspects
• Better understanding of the process.

Week Defining the problem • How does a social innovator turn a problem into an opportunity?
11 • How and why do businesses and non-profits think differently about
problems and solutions?

Week Stakeholder Analysis • Mind mapping the problems in the region


12 • List out the stakeholders which are present in the region
based on sector
• stakeholder power interest grid

Week What data to collect? • what is data collection


13 • What are the methods of data collection

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Semester - 2
Week Intro class Introduction to second semester
14
Week Primary and secondary research • Information collection through primary
15 research methods
• Collecting the information through secondary
research methods

Week Field Visit field visit for the students to understand the system
16
Week Root Cause Analysis • What is root cause analysis?
17 • Fishbone analysis

Week Defining problem statement • Defining the problem statement based on stakeholder discussion and
18 analysis.
Semester Week Expert talk on focused problem statement • Discussed problems on the sector
2 19 • Localised solution
•Q&A session with the students
Week Ideation • What is ideation?
20 • Why ideation?
•Techniques of ideation

Week Field Visit field visit for the students to understand the system
21
Week Business Model Canvas • Communicating business idea or concept
22 • Fundamental elements of a business or a product
• Structuring a idea in a coherent way
• Costing
Week Idea Pitching • Presentation on idea
23 •Implementation strategies

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Week Prototyping Technique • Techniques for prototyping
24 • Analysing working principles

Week Social innovation Expo Social Innovation Project exhibition


25

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