Leading Open Innovation - Develop Your Social Network and Capital

About This Course

This course will introduce participants to the concept of social capital and provide guidance on building diverse social networks. It will illustrate how social capital acts as a catalyst for innovation by facilitating knowledge exchange, fostering collaboration, mobilizing resources, and facilitating collective problem-solving within social networks.

Participants will also have the opportunity to take part in panel discussions featuring representatives from diverse institutions of higher learning, research centres, and centres of innovation. These discussions will focus on strategies for leveraging the technical resources provided by these institutions to bolster their innovation initiatives. The panel discussion serves as a case study illustrating how participants can broaden their social networks to access resources beyond their individual capacities.