5 credits
Social entrepreneurship is a dynamic approach to problem solving that individuals, entrepreneurs, or scholar-practitioners can use to address societal needs and problems related to healthcare. In this course, students select a healthcare issue and develop an entrepreneurial project to address it. Students will define beneficiaries and stakeholders and develop tactics to identify and address opponents, allies, and the ambivalent. Students will test, evaluate, and identify both opportunities and potential weaknesses of their proposed entrepreneurial solutions. By the end of the course, students will have experienced the process of developing concept statements supported by research, articulating business propositions, defining the market and competition, and addressing the sociopolitical landscape. Finally, students will evaluate the feasibility of their proposed entrepreneurial healthcare solutions.