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USC has a new program for PhD students: Diploma in Innovation. What's your opinion?
This could put USC at the forefront of technology among universities all over the world! Check it out and tell us what you think. Would this make you think about pursuing your PhD at USC?
http://www.usc.edu/schools/GraduateSchool/iDiploma/index.html
http://www.usc.edu/schools/GraduateSchool/iDiploma/index.html
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Besides the fact that it's offered for free (albeit to a select few), I like that two of the program's three courses address the legal, financial and interdisciplinary aspects of innovation. Legal and financial constraints are increasingly taking a toll on promising innovators who just want to focus on creating stuff. Funding and red tape hurdles seem to outpace technology, and inventors can't just entrust their financial and legal requirements to money-hungry lawyers and financiers. Inventors need to devote their time on research and development, but they usually need to seek seed funding and legal protection. Oftentimes, inventors just lose out to the people who have the money or know the rules. Most inventions remain unknown for a long time, because money and laws intimidate the inventors, who tend to avoid risk-taking. The "Legal Issues and Financing of Innovation" would enable the inventors to identify trustworthy financiers and lawyers and to become entrepreneurs through calculated risk-taking.
Top universities like USC create experts, certainly not dabblers in multiple fields. However, too much specialization detaches experts from the interdisciplinary nature of the real world. The program's "Disciplinary Perspectives in Innovation" reintroduces the experts into the wild marketplace they may have forgotten about after years of focused study in the university and specialized work in the workplace. Through this course, the program also acknowledges and utilizes the fact that innovation comes in any field.
Our day and age calls for an innovator who is at the same time a leader. The "The Innovation Process: Development, Diffusion and Leadership" course ensures that the innovators apply their financial, legal and interdisciplinary skills to lead and teamwork with the diverse kinds of people they have to work with to create tangible solutions for the ever problematic world.
Other ways the program would have me seriously think about pursuing a doctorate at USC are that the application process is straightforward and, for the record, that the program is highly selective. If the USC brand name can't land you your dream R&D job after graduation, that you are a select "innovator" graduate of USC should.
Top universities like USC create experts, certainly not dabblers in multiple fields. However, too much specialization detaches experts from the interdisciplinary nature of the real world. The program's "Disciplinary Perspectives in Innovation" reintroduces the experts into the wild marketplace they may have forgotten about after years of focused study in the university and specialized work in the workplace. Through this course, the program also acknowledges and utilizes the fact that innovation comes in any field.
Our day and age calls for an innovator who is at the same time a leader. The "The Innovation Process: Development, Diffusion and Leadership" course ensures that the innovators apply their financial, legal and interdisciplinary skills to lead and teamwork with the diverse kinds of people they have to work with to create tangible solutions for the ever problematic world.
Other ways the program would have me seriously think about pursuing a doctorate at USC are that the application process is straightforward and, for the record, that the program is highly selective. If the USC brand name can't land you your dream R&D job after graduation, that you are a select "innovator" graduate of USC should.
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