VTMED 6749

Agile Innovation in Animal Health-Hackathon

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

The course is designed to complement the Animal Health Hackathon and will focus on the challenges and opportunities related to animal health entrepreneurship and innovation. Veterinary students will work in diverse teams with students from other programs on campus to gain a broader perspective of both the challenges (e.g., organizational and institutional) and opportunities (e.g., unmet customer needs and possibilities for future ventures) in this sector. Students will learn and apply team innovation processes, business model innovation, design thinking, creativity management, product pitches, data analysis, critical thinking, and product innovation.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Requires concurrent participation in the Cornell Animal Health Hackathon.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: veterinary students.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2022SP

When Offered Spring.

Comments Course may not be repeated. 

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