Open 2013: Helping to Disseminate Technology with University Program Support: Examples of how to foster technologies' progression towards scale
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The document outlines a program where students learn leadership skills to address poverty through design and entrepreneurship courses, site visits, and internships where they work on social ventures or with NGOs/companies, with the goal of developing and deploying product ventures through a pipeline from identification to development to deployment, noting both successes in transforming students and challenges around continuity and distributed teaming.
Open 2013: Helping to Disseminate Technology with University Program Support: Examples of how to foster technologies' progression towards scale
- 1. Students learn to become leaders that can address the well-being of people living in poverty through design and entrepreneurship Courses + Placement program Site visits Engaged Studying Practicing Leading Internship Multi-campus Mission driven A new social venture Course company/NGO NCIIA OPEN - Benjamin Linder, Olin College, Erik Noyes, Babson College
- 2. REGIONAL IMPLEMENTATION 1 2 3 Regional focus Potential product-ventures Pilots Opportunity identification Development Deployment Multiple approaches 2 product-ventures 0-2 product-ventures Rough components Refined components Validated components Many assumptions Many assumptions tested Replication assumptions
- 3. PRODUCT-VENTURE PIPELINE Opportunity identification Development Deployment Rickshaw modification New products Water Rickshaw chlorination drivetrain Rickshaw dispatch Bamboo Joint bicycle improvement design Bike accessories Cactus oil extraction Brand strategy 2 to 6 Semesters! Hoop house Mobile New ventures Accessibility Ghana Equipment Cassava co-op Beeswax India grating Gari income Morocco pressing Alabama Massachusetts
- 4. SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES Successes Challenges Students transformed Continuity Students placed Undergraduate founders Lives changed Partner expectations Satisfied partners Distributed teaming Participation by Travel… women/underrepresented Deployment from courses Institutional support