Innovation and Entrepreneurship INNO

INNO 202 Leading People and Projects

Units

4

Assists experienced and inexperienced entrepreneurs with some of the challenges of managing others, and helps them build their understanding and skills so they can become more successful managers of people.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

INNO 203 Accounting for Entrepreneurs

Units

4

Provides the building blocks of financial and managerial accounting that are essential to entrepreneurs. Covers financial ratios and statements, including forecasting financial statements, basic transaction analysis, and generally accepted accounting principles.

Offered: Fall 2026 (1 section)

INNO 205 Marketing for Entrepreneurs

Units

4

Develops familiarity with fundamental concepts, theories, and techniques in marketing, and acquaints students with the type of decisions made by marketing managers including customer targeting, product, pricing, placement, promotion, and research.

Offered: Fall 2026 (1 section)

INNO 209 Managerial Finance and Venture Capital

Units

4

Provides the building blocks of finance knowledge that are essential to entrepreneurs. Covers investment and financing decisions, including the time value of money, cash flow creation, cost of capital, and capital budgeting.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

INNO 211 MIE ProSeminar

Units

0

Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times

Restrictions: Master of Innovation and Entrepreneurship only

Prepares students for the New Venture Competition in spring quarter. Students form teams to create a startup, submit concept paper, pitch ideas, and attend workshops throughout the academic year.

Offered: Fall 2026 (1 section)

INNO 213 Building Prototypes with AI

Units

4

Restrictions: School of Business students only

Equips students with the ability to harness artificial intelligence, data analytics, and optimization tools to transform their business concepts into functional product prototypes.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

INNO 214 Entrepreneurship

Units

4

Restrictions: Master of Innovation and Entrepreneurship only

Student teams develop a business plan to launch a new venture. Drafts of sections of the plan are due throughout the course.

Offered: Fall 2026 (1 section)

INNO 215 Lean Startup

Units

4

Restrictions: Master of Innovation and Entrepreneurship only

Exposes students to an entrepreneurial experience with the same pressures and demands of an early-stage startup to provide a real-world, hands-on learning experience in starting a company.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

INNO 216 User Experience Design For Entrepreneurs

Units

4

Restrictions: School of Business students only

Designed to teach students how to identify customer pain points, design interfaces, and evaluate usability through experiments. Students learn to conduct A/B tests, analyze results using statistical reasoning, and apply data.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

INNO 275 Innovation Internship

Units

2-4

Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times

Restrictions: Master of Innovation and Entrepreneurship only

Students apply innovative and creative knowledge obtained from classroom theory through work experiences. Provides knowledge of career opportunities, an understanding of the role innovation plays in business environments, and preparation to become an entrepreneur.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

INNO 290 Special Topics in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Units

2-4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of innovation and entrepreneurship. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

INNO 291A Business Creation: Ideation

Units

2

Restrictions: Master of Innovation and Entrepreneurship only

Business Creation is the capstone element for the MIE program that integrates all curricular and co-curricular activities, leveraging course work, expert speakers, and workshops to improve the quality of your idea.

Offered: Fall 2026 (1 section)

INNO 291B Business Creation: Pitch Deck Preparation

Units

4

Restrictions: Master of Innovation and Entrepreneurship only

Capstone element for the MIE program that integrates all curricular and co-curricular activities, leveraging course work, expert speakers, and workshops to improve the quality of your idea.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

INNO 292 Business Law for Entrepreneurs

Units

2

Focuses on educating individuals starting, or investing in, a new business in the U.S. Provides an overview to common legal issues faced by entrepreneurs, such as business formation and structure, governance and employment contracts, and intellectual property and taxation.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

INNO 294 Edge: Innovation in the New Digital Age

Units

4

Same as MNGE 294

Restrictions: Master of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Master in Management have the first consideration for enrollment. School of Business students only

Explores the strategic and operational issues that business leaders face in adapting to the new business environment, what we call innovating, managing, and competing at the edge.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

INNO 298 Merage Consulting Projects for Entrepreneurs

Units

4

Provides students the opportunity to put into practice concepts, skills, and tools acquired in other parts of the MBA program. Seminars augment internship experiences with analyses of relevant administrative issues.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

INNO 299 Individual Study

Units

1-8

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times

Restrictions: Master Of Innovation and Entrepreneurship majors only

Individual study under the direction of a selected faculty member.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.