SMT403

Undergraduate

This course provides technology-savvy students, preferably at senior undergraduate level, with a set of strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship concepts from social science and management (including fundamentals of corporate strategy, social context, design thinking, blue ocean strategy) to support idea generation for Social Technopreneurship: application of technology to serve social outcomes and in an entrepreneurial manner. SMU-X office will provide up to 2 sponsors for this course (tech, non tech business, social enterprises or even non-profit enterprise) of which students will function as ‘consultants’ to understand the problem, collect relevant primary data (through surveys, interviews or tech means), and propose solutions to the sponsors. This course has an Asian focus for learning of best practices from Asia (with emphasis on Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand) on how they applied technology towards social outcomes yet practically relevant to apply and to adapt these overseas practices to Singapore’s context in social technopreneurship and to the sponsors’ problems. Student will be empowered and coached to apply relevant strategy-innovation tools on a real problem. The final pitch will be in Singapore to SMU-X office arranged sponsors.