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I & E Worskhop Series- Events

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Workshop Series (I&E WS) encourages students and professors to learn about topics that spike creativity and innovation as well as creating an entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial mindset. Our main goal is to empower students and professsors to become business erudite to serve as a complement for their professional careers. 
 
Every month a new talk and/or workshop will be given covering topics such as: Design Thinking, Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition, Product Market Fit, Financing Sources, Intellectual Property, among other innovation management topics that compliment existing courses. After completing the I&E Workshop Series, participants will be familiarized with the topics provided by the program, help and mentor others to accomplish their entrepreneurial endevours, and become a champion of our I&E ecosystem.
 
Events Calendar (Fall semester 2016):
 
Registration per event is required at cep.uprm.edu
 
Limited spaces!
 
The Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem at UPRM, Resource: Dr. Ubaldo M. Córdova
August 30 @ 10:30am-12pm (Location: AE 242) 
 
The goal of the UPRM Innovation and Entreprenuerial Ecosystem is to transform the educational experience of students to foster positive attitudes towards innovation and promote the development of an entrepreneurial mindset. Our commitment to this involves adaptations to curriculum and course sequencing, rollout of co- and extracurricular offerings, modification of supporting infrastructure and development of operating policies. The ecosystem has achieved many successes in a short period of time and created a roadmap for campus change. 
 
“Pitching” for Entrepreneurial Competitions, Resource: Dr. José Romaguera
September 13 @ 10:30am-12pm (Location: Figueroa Chapel) 
Pitching is an important tool/skill for reaching agreement, and agreement can yield many good outcomes including sales, partnerships, and new hires. In this workshop, the art of "pitching" will be presented, primary to help entrepreneurs be persuasive in entreprenerial competitions and other funding opportunities.
 
Design Thinking, Resource: Dr. José Lugo
September 27 @ 10:30am-12pm (Location: Starting Point - Makerspace / 1st Floor Student Center)
This workshop will introduce the Design Thinking methodology used by designers and many other professionals to solve complex problems, and find desirables solutions for clients. Design Thinking draws upon logic, imagination, intuition, and systemic reasoning, to explore possibilities of what could be, and to create desired outcomes that benefit the end user (the customer). The workshop will focus in the methodology steps: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. This methodology has been applied by companies like P&G, Apple, and Google.
 
Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition, Product Market Fit, Resources: Dr. Moraima De Hoyos, Dr. José Vega, Dr. Mari Luz Zapata
October 15 @ 8:30am-3pm (Location: Sala Eugene Francis)
The BMC workshop aim to show participants a strategic management and entrepreneurial tool that allow them to describe, design, challenge, invent, and pivot a business model. The goal is to teach them the basic things that they needs to have clear of their innovative idea before consider start a business. In the workshop on Value Proposition, a discusion on how to make attactive to costumers an innovation, service, or feature intended to make a company or product will be provided, including tools and examples. The Product Market Fit workshop explains how to develop a company in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market.
For Spring 2017, we are organizing workshops on Financing Sources, Founders Dilemma, Organization Structures, and more.
 
Stay tune for updates at uprm.edu/eship!
 
Team leaders of Idea Platform that completes the I&E WS will obtain a leadership certificate and the necessary training to mentor students in their early stages of accelerating their ideas into business opportunities.  
 
Faculty participating of the I&E WS will obtain professional development hours (CEP hours). Those that complete the series in full will obtain a certificate on entrepreneurial mentorship issued by the Center for Business and Economic Development and invited to become a Faculty Innovation Fellow at UPRM. 
 
Graduate students will also obtain professional development hours (CEP hours).
 
To register to these events, please visit the registration page at cep.uprm.edu.
 
For questions, contact: rodrigo.morales1@upr.edu or ubaldom.cordova@upr.edu.
 
In case of technical issues with registration, please contact exts. 3829, 3674 or cep@uprm.edu. 

 

                                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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