““What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up, and remake the world for the better.” - David Bornstein

Vision

Entrepreneurship is a powerful force for social change when it challenges the status quo and channels dissatisfaction about how things are, into changing forever how things can be. Understanding the social and cultural constructs that hold problems in place to persist, and then tackling the root cause by changing mindsets that create them in the first place are where Impact entrepreneurs position themselves.

The PGDP finish allows graduates from any discipline to examine and explore the systems that are responsible for many of the problems that society faces today. It helps uncover the opportunities for doing things differently in an action based entrepreneurial way creating shared and inclusive prosperity with better outcomes for planet and people.

Learners will explore systems thinking, business design, sustainability and have experiences in real life community-based business immersion in an application based pedagogy.

Course Structure

• Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary studios
• Workshops
• Seminars
• Lines of Inquiries (Field work, Case Studies, Investigations, individual or Group Projects, Transdisciplinary Research)
• Theory and Understanding
• Independent Study
• Open Elective
• Practice
• Exhibitions
• Culminating Performances of Understanding (Portfolio, Transdisciplinary research, Projects, Colloquium, Capstone/Dissertation)
• Knowledge Enhancement (ability or skills)

Learning Approach

The PGDP in Entrepreneurship for Impact  follows a practice-based approach to learning where learners closely work with entrepreneurs and impact enterprises through the year. Action Based Research is key to the program with immersion in the context and identifying key constraints and key resources to build feasible viable and desirable business solutions. Learners go through the design thinking, systems thinking  and service design process to refine  product or service ideas. They are equipped with business strategy and branding tools to understand how impact enterprises can scale their impact

Theoretical knowledge and understanding is understood in terms of best practices through simulation  and in field application, and then practiced repeatedly for internalisation and mastery

Program learning approaches include:

• Exploring conceptual and theoretical understanding through the lens of the lines of inquiry for the program.
• Using design research methods to explore and articulate one’s understanding and position within a chosen context
• Collaboration amongst peers, practitioners and the community in developing a multi -disciplinary stance to problem solving and aspiration fulfilment
• Self-managed and independent learning with access to guidance from mentors

Capability Sets

• Reflecting and exploring one’s personal mission and purpose.
• Understand context through immersion, empathy and systems thinking
• Connect practice with entrepreneurship driven by societal and environmental impact
• Understanding  connect to markets and customers,  making products and services keeping the customer, community  and planet at the centre
• Bringing markets to communities through branding and strategy tools.
• Learning to work co creatively with community, traditional wisdom keepers, modern markets and  disciplinary experts
• To lead  and manage with understanding of systems and ethical behaviour.

Opportunities

After successful completion of this one year program,

• Learners  could join the second year of the Master of Arts program in the Impact Entrepreneurship.
• Learners  could start-up  impact enterprises or work  in existing enterprises or civil society organisations, development  focused departments of government agencies or in corporate CSR departments.

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Enquiries

Disciplinary Intersections

The program is informed by related learning disciplines like

Research and Collaboration

The MINT program offers its students opportunities to connect with artists and designers from a range of research and practice labs and centres based at Srishti Manipal.
These include: