Managing Innovation Scholarships
Be the Link Between Business and Technology: Build Innovative and Scalable Solutions
Business and Information Technology can make strange bedfellows, and it is the aim of the Innovation Management professional to synthesize the two, often disparate, entities. Business requires the most advanced information systems it can get. Business innovation professionals work to coordinate the efforts.
Professionals in the field will have knowledge of networks and the need for advanced data management; practices for employing technology and project management and new digital equipment to aid in product design and development; as well as how to manage conflict and impediments to innovation. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Innovation is organic. Innovative techniques are required in healthcare, education, industry and business. This is relatively new ground in business programs. Those that specialize in training entrepreneurs approach innovation as an expression of invention, often disregarded in other business disciplines.
Scholarships
Champlain College Managing Innovation and IT is a graduate level course. Champlain College is generous in its general scholarships and students in the Managing innovation program may apply for the following:
- Scholars Program is open to all students.
- New American Student Scholarship is designed for the more non-traditional student and gives preference to a student living off-campus. Students must prove financial need. The scholarship is open to those pursuing the program in Managing Innovation.
- Single parent Scholarship rewards those parents struggling to balance a full-time college program and raising children, which includes childcare and education costs.
Business Innovation Factory sponsors student scholarships in innovation. Applicants may qualify for tuition waivers at costly conferences, such as the BIF Collaborative Innovation Summit.
Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) offers students both need and merit-based scholarships up to $2000. The noted Business School at the University of Washington trains young entrepreneurs to "see" innovative new strategies and make creative partnerships.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Collaborative for Entrepreneurship and Innovation lists competitions and projects that give students the opportunity to demonstrate innovative thinking and compete for valuable awards. WPI also sponsors the Dearborn Foundation Scholarship named in honor of one of the college's most renowned innovators as well as a generous donor. One outstanding student is chosen each academic year. The applicant must demonstrate all the best characteristics of invention, business, and innovation.
Freebie
Unique, yes, but MITOpenCourseware program offers a Managing Innovation course available as a free download. MIT's Sloan School of Business is one of the leading business programs in the country.
