Innovation is imperative in the fast-paced landscape of contemporary business. Forward-thinking managers know that a strategy for innovation must become an integral part of an organization’s primary operation.
In today’s dynamic and ever-changing economic climate, innovation is less of a choice and more of a business imperative. Similar to entrepreneurship, innovation requires a context of engagement and interconnection between people, stakeholders, and ecosystems in order to flourish — in other words, an innovation ecosystem. This executive program explores MIT’s research on the science of innovation ecosystems, offering you the tools and frameworks necessary to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in your organization.
We do not recommend this course if you have already completed Accelerating Corporate Innovation: The Competitive Advantage of Ecosystem Engagement unless you are seeking a refresher of the content.
Over the course of six weeks, you’ll gain access to this framework along with a range of cutting-edge concepts and tools, empowering you to foster a culture of sustainable innovation in your organization.
Welcome to your Online Campus
Innovation and its Challenges
Innovation in Ecosystems, with Stakeholders
Innovation-driven Entrepreneurship and Experimental Innovation Loops
Corporate Stakeholders in Innovation Ecosystems
Innovation Practices as Tools of Engagement: Hackathons, Accelerators, and Prize Competitions
Leading Innovation in an Ecosystem
Upon successful completion of your course, you will earn a certificate of completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management. This course may also count toward
MIT Sloan Executive Certificate requirements
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In this course you will learn to:
Assess your organization’s capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship
Learn how to leverage your organization’s ecosystem to optimize innovation
Become familiar with different methods for facilitating meaningful ecosystem engagement, and identify relevant methods for your organization
Design a tailor-made strategy for your organization to facilitate innovation
This program is designed for decision makers from any industry who want to improve their organization’s capacity to formulate and implement innovative strategies, as well as for entrepreneurs and startup business leaders launching new offerings.
Whether you’re in senior management, consulting, business strategy, marketing and sales, or are simply a professional with innovative ideas and seeking tools and frameworks to capture and deliver on those ideas, this MIT Sloan program will be beneficial to you.
We do not recommend this program to past participants of Accelerating Corporate Innovation: The Competitive Advantage of Ecosystem Engagement unless you are looking for a refresher.
This course is delivered in our Self-Paced Online format which enables you to participate at your own pace within weekly modules. This course runs over 6 weeks with an estimated 6-8 hours per week of study time
Earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management
You will learn through a variety of formats including interactive videos, practice quizzes, presentations, assignments, and discussion forums
You will have access to a Success Adviser who will help you manage your time, and support you with any administrative or technical queries you might have
"I am truly glad I completed the MIT Sloan Corporate Innovation: Strategies for Leveraging Ecosystems program. It has been an eye-opening experience that deepened my understanding of how innovation ecosystems operate across the world and the different factors that make them thrive. The course highlighted how some ecosystems are strong in Innovation Capability (I-Cap), generating brilliant ideas and technologies, while others excel in Entrepreneurial Capability (E-Cap), effectively commercializing and scaling those ideas. True impact, however, happens when both capabilities are connected when innovators and entrepreneurs collaborate, share resources, and co-create value. I was particularly struck by examples of how even large corporations have seen projects fail because they tried to do everything themselves, rather than engaging the broader ecosystem. This reinforced for me the importance of partnerships, collaboration, and openness as the foundation of sustainable innovation. The program has given me practical frameworks for applying ecosystem thinking to leadership and strategy, and it has broadened my perspective on how to cultivate more balanced, connected, and resilient innovation ecosystems that drive meaningful and lasting impact."
Ikanyeng M
"The market has been divided in two: The old traditional companies, based on detailed planning and risk reduction, and then the new startups, bold, fast, embracing change and failure. Putting your best engineers in a room and calling it the innovation department will not work. If you want to succeed, you must transform the whole company, from strategy definition, politicsstructure, to new culture. And then that is not enough, you are already late by definition, you need that and also open to the innovation ecosystem already working on the ideas that you need. This course will clearly lay down where you are, where you need to be, and what are your options."
Alejandro V
"I am an ACE certificate holder and I love everything about MIT and I have loved my courses during the past three years. This course as unfortunately been by far the least valuable course and does not reach up to MITs high quality. This self phased online course had a very nice topic and seemed interesting when I enrolled into the course. The result - very repetititive content week by week and very simple assignments. The course gave me unfortunately very low motivation to enter a new course week already after the second week I am happy to give more feedback to MIT staff. Welcome to contact me"
Peter A
"Hi! I really liked the course. Its the first class I felt like I had a final, though it was too a rough week! For some critique, it felt at times we were selling the MIT iEcosystem too much. It also felt a little repetitive, I live this however so thats probably part of it too. Thank you!!"
William C
"As I moved into a new role focused on innovation and transformation lead for the organization , I wanted to get the basics of innovation thinking right. I had read really good reviews about MIT corporate innovation ecosystem course for Innovation, so I signed up to learn first-hand from industry experts how to spark new thinking and explore my own journey into driving innovation at my current workplace. This course helped me with with an innovation ecosystem based strategy for fostering new thinking and, blueprint in hand, and how to convey that strategy both laterally and vertically across the enterprise!"
Saurabh D
"The course is just magnificent. It gave me the opportunity to learn from the best faculty, as well as getting exposed to real life inspiring cases."
Hani S
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Vincent L
"Very good content insightful Course"
Atif S
"This course was fantastic. I really liked a lot how it operationalizes many Open Innovation and Innovation Ecosystems theories that some might feel too generic or not that easy to implement. Really recommend this course for those innovation practioners."
Daniel C
"This course helped me a lot with how our organization connects to the innovative ecosystem outside. And, there was an opportunity to think about how to handle the situation within our organization. The course materials are well organized, so it's worth enrolling in this course."
Masanori S
Same topic, Similar duration - Broader exploration across all institutes
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