Editing Innovation Communities (Fall 2017) (section)

== Overview and Learning Objectives ==

I believe that in the twenty-first century innovation will be managed in dramatically different ways than it was in the previous century — by professionals like the students in in CommLead rather than by engineering managers in R&D departments.

This course will help prepare you for this future by bringing together several decades of research into the sources of innovation with practical advice and hands-on experience putting this research into action.

I will consider the course a complete success if every student is able to do each of these things at the end of the quarter:

* Distinguish ''community innovation'', ''free innovation'', and ''user innovation'' from traditional forms of innovation and recognize examples in their own personal and business lives.
* Describe techniques for finding innovations created by users including ''lead user search'', ''innovation toolkits'', ''broadcast search'' and ''crowdsourcing'', and user communities and feel comfortable using each.
* ''Anticipate challenges'' associated with community innovation and ''respond to these challenges effectively''.
* ''Have experience using at least one user innovation method'' to find a new innovation that solves a problem relevant to the student's employment or personal interests.