Innovation Fellows interactively experiment with innovation mindsets, tools, and processes to make meaningful connections to their work and personal lives, and use coaching as a change-making strategy.
Consider how prototyping quickly might impact a project you're working on; the value of gaining empathy for others when working together, or how leveraging various perspectives could propel your academic or professional career.
Use Innovation Fellowship to…
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Find an entrepreneurship program
The Innovation Fellowship program is an immersive innovation program that actively explores the tools and mindsets of innovators and entrepreneurs. Graduate students and staff in this program are directly connected to the Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship and UMD's greater innovation and entrepreneurship network.
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Learn about entrepreneurship
Innovation Fellows learn about innovation and entrepreneurship through learning by doing. The Fellowship starts with a commitment to a semester-long, weekly meeting designed to immersively teach design tools and methods and develop a skill set in coaching. Innovation Fellows may choose to deepen their experience by pursuing advanced design thinking and coaching opportunities offered through the Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.