Creativity

General Data
Academic program	General Engineering Program			:
Type d'EC	Classes (LIIAem06ECreat)
Lectures : 2h00 Lab Work : 8h00 Total duration : 14h00	Status :	Period : SEMESTER 6	Education language : French

Learning Outcomes
The targeted skills are as follows: • Ability to allow divergent thinking, the search for innovative solutions, originality and ideation, • Ability to deal with uncertainty and vagueness, • Ability to stay open and to persevere, • Desire to learn, to question, to explore lesser-known dimensions, to renew oneself by expanding one's vision of the world, • Analytical skills, • Ability to play with concepts and ideas, • Resistance to the temptation to make decisions too quickly and only based on common sense or what we know about the situation, • Ability to dare entrepreneurship by being daring.

Learning Outcomes

The targeted skills are as follows:
• Ability to allow divergent thinking, the search for innovative solutions, originality and ideation,
• Ability to deal with uncertainty and vagueness,
• Ability to stay open and to persevere,
• Desire to learn, to question, to explore lesser-known dimensions, to renew oneself by expanding one's vision of the world,
• Analytical skills,
• Ability to play with concepts and ideas,
• Resistance to the temptation to make decisions too quickly and only based on common sense or what we know about the situation,
• Ability to dare entrepreneurship by being daring.

Content
Creativity is a skill that requires work and discipline. This course allows students to meet entrepreneurs from the region. This course also allows them to discover creativity tools and techniques in order to identify, collectively, an innovative idea of a mechatronic product/service that could lead to the creation of a company thereafter. The aim is to make students aware of entrepreneurship. Supervised by entrepreneurs from the region, the module is structured around 3 highlights: 1. Divergent phase of creativity in which students produce many ideas, 2. Convergent phase of creativity in which students select the most innovative idea in order to detail it and investigate its potential, 3. Phase of publication, communication and pitch of the chosen idea in front of a jury in order to test the concept and convince fictitious investors.

Content

Creativity is a skill that requires work and discipline. This course allows students to meet entrepreneurs from the region. This course also allows them to discover creativity tools and techniques in order to identify, collectively, an innovative idea of a mechatronic product/service that could lead to the creation of a company thereafter. The aim is to make students aware of entrepreneurship.

Supervised by entrepreneurs from the region, the module is structured around 3 highlights:
1. Divergent phase of creativity in which students produce many ideas,
2. Convergent phase of creativity in which students select the most innovative idea in order to detail it and investigate its potential,
3. Phase of publication, communication and pitch of the chosen idea in front of a jury in order to test the concept and convince fictitious investors.

Pre-requisites / co-requisites
There are no particular prerequisites for these creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship awareness workshops. Students just need to be open and willing to listen to the ideas of others.

Bibliography
• « Libérez votre créativité. De l'imagination à l'innovation gagnante » de Lionel BELLENGER, • « Créativité et gestion. Les idées au service de l'innovation » de Camille CARRIER et Sylvie GÉLINAS, • « La bonne idée existe ! Cinq étapes essentielles pour la trouver » de Luc DE BRABANDÈRE et Alan INY, • « La boîte à outils de la créativité » de François DEBOIS, Arnaud GROFF et Emmanuel CHENEVIER, • « De la créativité à l'innovation. Le plaisir de réaliser l'impossible » de Normand MICHAUD, • « Osez la créativité. Inspirez-vous des pratiques des entreprises innovantes » de Mark RAISON.

Bibliography

• « Libérez votre créativité. De l'imagination à l'innovation gagnante » de Lionel BELLENGER,
• « Créativité et gestion. Les idées au service de l'innovation » de Camille CARRIER et Sylvie GÉLINAS,
• « La bonne idée existe ! Cinq étapes essentielles pour la trouver » de Luc DE BRABANDÈRE et Alan INY,
• « La boîte à outils de la créativité » de François DEBOIS, Arnaud GROFF et Emmanuel CHENEVIER,
• « De la créativité à l'innovation. Le plaisir de réaliser l'impossible » de Normand MICHAUD,
• « Osez la créativité. Inspirez-vous des pratiques des entreprises innovantes » de Mark RAISON.

Assessment(s)
N°	Nature	Coefficient	Observable objectives
1	Knowledge check on the three highlights of the workshops (evaluation of an idea presentation sheet + evaluation of the pitch).	1	Written or oral exam