D. R. WidderExecutive Director of Innovation

Value CreationInnovation, Collaboration, Entrepreneurship

Designdesirable

Businessvaluable

Engineeringfeasible

Nexus Learning

Curriculum Objectives

Design Processes How do I find opportunities?

Business Models How do I create value?

Systems Analysis How do I manage complexity?

Research Methods How do I ask the right questions?

Capstone Project How do I put it all together?

Innovation Nexus Program

• Product and Service Design Innovation • Materials Exploration • Packaging Design across the Value Chain • Market Research and Ethnographic Studies • Prototype Design and Development • Design and Usability Audits

Multidisciplinary Teams Real world problems Innovation

Early Impact

• Internal & External Traction

• Increased demand– Curriculum– Culture– Programs

Innovation Entrepreneurship

Internal Ecosystem

Faculty

DECInnovation Workshop

SeriesTop Ram

Competition

Tech Transfer/

Commercialization

Nexus Symposia

Career Services

Nexus Learning Pathway

Innovation Nexus

Program

Alumni Senior DesignShow

Themes: Student CentricInclude Lifestyle businesses Social entrepreneurshipCo-curricularNexus Learning

Blackstone Launchpad

Internal Ecosystem

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Faculty

DECInnovation Workshop

SeriesTop Ram

Competition

Tech Transfer/

Commercialization

Nexus Symposia

Career Services

Nexus Learning Pathway

Innovation Nexus

Program

Alumni Senior DesignShow

External Ecosystem

Center for

Nexus Learning

Mentors

@C-DEC

Discussion

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Philadelphia University is the model for professional university education

in the 21st century.

Philadelphia University Vision

The Focus on Innovation

Philadelphia University is built on the promise of human innovation to power the ideas of the future.

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Entrepreneurial Foundations and DNA

Entrepreneurial DNA (AKA Value Creation)

Our entrepreneurial spirit stretches back to the American Industrial Revolution. We’ve always been willing to take a pulse on what’s happening in industry and in the greater world to see what needs solving and invent a solution. That’s value creation.

1. Formalize our Signature Learning Approach

2. Achieve innovation

3. Advance Applied Research

4. Invest in Academic Strengths

5. Build Graduate and Professional Programs

6. Develop Innovative Facilities

7. Integrate Curricular and Co-Curricular Learning

VISION - Philadelphia University’s Strategic Plan

Nexus Learning

Our signature approach to learning – active, collaborative, connected to the real world and infused with the liberal arts – is the hallmark of a Philadelphia University education. Nexus Learning is about graduates who are fluent in the cross-disciplinary ways of the 21st –century work world.

Nexus Learning

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKchx3j-hiM

• Students: 3,200 students from 38 statesand 31 countries

• Average class size: 18

• Student to faculty ratio: 14:1

• Faculty: 120 full-time, 40 part-time, 350 professors of the practice

• Academics:41 undergraduate majors19 graduate programs

Philadelphia University Fast Facts

Fashion Ecosystem In Action

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