Social Innovation & Impact Entrepreneurship
BA – 193.3316 | MA – 193.4316
BA – 193.3317 | MA – 193.4317
4 Credits
Annual course, required to register for two semesters
Israel Doron, Maayan Agmon and Stav Bar-Shani
- Deep familiarity with the world of Social Innovation
- Acquisition of tools, applications for social entrepreneurship and management of long-term impact processes
- Developing the ability to analyze complex social and environmental problems
- Practical experience working on a social challenge mentored by experts in the field of social innovation.
- Date: 1st semester 2020, Mondays 16: 00-18: 00.
- Credits: Theoretical part – 2 credits and the field experience part – 2 credits
- Lecturers: Maayan Agmon, Israel (Issy) Doron and Stav Bar-Shani
- Reception hours: by appointment, before or after class
- Location: to be determined later
- Ranking: For undergraduate and graduate students
- Prerequisites: None
- Course Syllabus: Click here
- Additional Requirements: Size and course will be online format; students will be required to have open cameras in classes. In case the lesson is recorded – the gallery photos will not be recorded. Failure to open the camera will be considered as absence
- For this course there is a continuation course: Second semester: 193.3317 / 193.4317
- Annual course, required to register for two semesters: First semester: 193.3316 | MA – 193.4316, Second Semester: 193.3317 | MA – 193.4317
This course will present the goals of sustainable development of the UN. The course will deal with innovative ways of thinking and acting to promote them. Its aim is to give students from diverse disciplines the ability to identify social and environmental problems and analyze them according to different social approaches (critical and systemic theories).
The course is based on innovative practical theories and models that lead the field today, Deliberate Leadership, Wicked Problems, End Game, SDGs, Impact: among them Logic Creation Impact Investments and Collective Impact, along with practical tools for project development and measurement. Theory of Change, Feedback Loops, 5 Dimensions of Impact: The final impact will include group work and will allow the creation of a social and professional network in the field of impact.
Social Innovation and Impact Entrepreneurship – A course (for which it is necessary to register separately – Second Semester 193.3317 / 193.4317) – part of which students will be required to apply the models and tools learned in the first part of the course, on real social problems, in marginalized and disadvantaged communities. Identify and understand a social or environmental question and design an innovative social entrepreneurship to solve them. All this while relying on existing resources in the community and creating collaborations with other social, public or business organizations.
This part of the course will award 2 credits, will require an average of 2-3 hours of activity per week and will be the final assignment of the entire course.
Coordination of the nature and location of the experience will be carried out with the program coordinator and the lecturer – Stav Bar-Shani, during the first semester.
Lecturer: Professor Israel (Issy) Doron
Prof. Israel (Issy) Doron, LL.B. (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel); LL.M. (Washington College of Law, Washington DC, USA); Ph.D. (Osgood School of Law, Toronto, ON, Canada).
Today, Prof. Doron is the head of the Center for the Study and Study of Aging at the University of Haifa, the former president of the Israeli Gerontological Association, and the former head of the Department of Gerontology.
He specializes in the areas of law and aging, social policy, human rights and old age. Prof. Doron has written extensively on topics such as the social-legal construction of old age and the human rights of older people.
Lecturer: Dr. Maayan Agmon
Lecturer: Stav Bar-Shany
External lecturer in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Haifa. Stav is a social innovation consultant with extensive work experience working with entrepreneurs and businesses on impact and social financing strategies in Europe, Israel and Africa.
Among other things, she led a consulting project for the European Development Bank (EBRD), served as Impact Manager of Accelerator for Women Entrepreneurs in Ghana and was a Partnership Manager at a Research Institute in London dealing with responsible technology. Stav served as the Director of Academic Programs at the Acto Investment and Entrepreneurship Center Impact and as the Impact Lecturer in the MBA program of the Academic Track, College of Management. A study on 'Impact Investments in the Technology Field in Africa' was published in Stanford University's Social News Magazine (SSIR).
Holds a master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA) in International Development from the London School of Economics (LSE) and is a graduate of the Oxford University School of Business (SBS).
