BizInnovator is the entrepreneurship curriculum toolkit that enables educators to teach the "entrepreneurial mindset" by encouraging creativity, innovation, critical thinking, and problem-solving - and also equipping students with the skills necessary to succeed and excel.

Info/Notes from the BizInnovator session at the 2019 MBA Conclave:
$99 for entire year
If you take the instructor training $299, your students can get credit and can transfer the credit
50 question exam for students
Take test, if pass, students have option to purchase the $150 credit (can do this a couple of years after as well)
relevant entrepreneurial projects
Thinking like an entrepreneur
Problem solving real situations
5 weeks, 2 classes per week for teachers
Curric Idea: You can set up your own class competition during the second half of the year
National Innovator Competition offered in the fall and spring
Online presentations
319-335-2204: Dawn
jacobson-institute@uiowa.edu
8 units: Semester course
Download unit plan
Pick and choose what you want students to do
Shows presentation materials needed
Interview an entrepreneur
YouTube vids

The Business Model Canvas (BMC) gives you the structure of a business plan without the overhead and the improvisation of a 'back of the napkin' sketch without the fuzziness.  The Canvas has nine elements: Customer Segments, Value Propositions, Channels, Customer Relationships, Revenue Streams, Key Activities, Key Resources, Key Partnerships, Cost Structure.  The Canvas is popular with entrepreneurs for business model innovation.  Fundamentally, it delivers three things: focus, flexibility, and transparency. 

As a new Entrepreneurship class starts you want your students to get to know each other and get the juices flowing on how to create innovative ideas.  This lesson will give you a great ice-breaker/lesson for the first or second day of an entrepreneurship class.

“Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer's toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success.”— Tim Brown, CEO of IDEOThinking like a designer can transform the way organizations develop products, services, processes, and strategy. This approach, which IDEO calls design thinking, brings together what is desirable from a human point of view with what is technologically feasible and economically viable. It also allows people who aren't trained as designers to use creative tools to address a vast range of challenges.

Discuss what a franchise is and what are advantages and disadvantages to them. Also a research project that goes along with that.

This unit is an exceprt from the MBA Research and Curriculum Principles of Entrepreneurship Course Guide. Course Guides include recommended performance indicators, sequencing, instructional objectives, resources, and activities for students. The full course includes 11 more units focused on generating ideas, establishing a business, and more. To access the full course guide, visit mbastatesconnection.mbaresearch.org and select "Course Guides" under "Curriculum and Instruction."Use this as a guide to teaching a unit about determining feasibility. Each task is related to one performance indicator in the unit. First, use the learning objectives to teach students the important components of a topic. Then, use the activity to engage students and reinforce learning. The online and textbook resources in each tasks can be used to extend learning.