Healthcare Innovation (P. Grad. Cert.)

On this programme, you will learn the fundamental of idea development, creative problem solving and innovation. You will be empowered to investigate a diverse range of innovation-related topics and act on opportunities in a variety of healthcare contexts. You will be able to identify and respond to today’s healthcare innovation opportunities and value in a focused manner. You will be equipped with the skills to critique the commercial, social and cultural value of new opportunities for innovation and evaluate the process involved in bringing an idea through to implementation.

You will learn to approach problem solving in an innovative way, by using tools and techniques to brainstorm new ideas and applying lateral thinking. By engaging with entrepreneurs, academics, business leaders and industry mentors in an informal learning environment, you will learn the fundamentals of both and by availing of valuable peer-to-peer learning you will experience the process of bringing an idea through from development through to implementation.

On successful completion of the course, you will be able to:

• Evaluate theories and concepts associated with creativity and innovation in a healthcare context
• Use structured methods of brainstorming and ideation
• Empathise with a broad group of stakeholders to identify their needs
• Explain how failure can be used as an opportunity for learning in a healthcare setting.
• Manage a healthcare innovation project to successful
• Identify and apply the major steps, tools and frameworks used in discovering, evaluating and developing opportunities for new healthcare ventures
• Demonstrate critical reasoning skills in identifying the business model and in assessing the viability of new venture opportunities
• Demonstrate an understanding of new venture financial modelling
• Present & communicate, in a professional and informed manner, a venture elevator pitch