2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Entrepreneurship courses
Bachelor's Fundamental Group Work for Value Creation A
- Academic unit or major
- Entrepreneurship courses
- Instructor(s)
- Keisuke Yamada / Yuri Matsuzaki / Mayu Watanabe
- Class Format
- Exercise (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- ENT.V201
- Number of credits
- 010
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 1-2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
※ Courses with parentheses in the course number have different subject codes depending on the student's year of admission.
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Entrepreneurship education does not simply aim to develop entrepreneurs who aim to establish startup companies, but also aims to develop human resources who can bring new value to society. Many organizations in society, including large companies and research organizations, are in high demand for people who have and can demonstrate "entrepreneurship."
Science Tokyo also hopes that each student will train their own "entrepreneurship" and use it as a driving force for creating new research results and new businesses (whether for large companies or startups) in the future.
This course is positioned as the first step in building a foundation for entrepreneurship, and within that foundation, we would like students to understand (1) MOTIVATION; recognizing the source of one's own interests and recognizing unconscious bias, and (2) INNOVATION; basics of “Design Thinking”, including process of 5 steps; empathy, issue identification, ideas, prototyping, and testing, through following 2 kind of workshops. We would like students to use this course as an opportunity to participate in various workshops or to move on to the stage of demonstrating their own "entrepreneurship" and trying to implement it in society, offered in our other courses.
Workshops to be attended:
1. Developing Creative Thinking through Art (4 sessions):
Participants will create their own art (abstract paintings) based on a theme, and through viewing them with other participants. While participants can expect to train their creativity, by sharing (verbalizing) their own thoughts and feelings, participants will recognize their motivations and understand the existence of unconscious biases through physical experience. There is a possibility that they will discover sources of motivation that they have not noticed before. They will also receive instruction on how to create art (abstract paintings).
2. Design Thinking for beginners (3 sessions):
"Design Thinking" is widely known as a methodology for creating innovation that is used by many large companies and venture companies, including Google and Apple, as well as Japanese companies. Understanding the concepts of "Creative Confidence" (being able to demonstrate each person's creativity) and "User Centric" (having a user perspective), which are its essence, overlaps with the essence of "entrepreneurship". In this workshop, participants will practice the processes of "empathy", "define", "ideate", "prototype", and "test", and will take the first step in experiencing "Design Thinking".
The two workshops above will be facilitated by the following expert instructors with extensive teaching experience.
1. Developing Creative Thinking through Art:
Kimi Hasebe, Mari Mori, Hiroko Takahashi, Ayako Nakamura, and others, ELAB
2. Design Thinking for beginners:
Yutaka Iimori and Kazuya Sawai, Digital Surf Inc.
Course description and aims
1. The goal of this course is to acquire the following abilities.
(1) Use this as an opportunity to re-examine your own interests and values
(2) Explain your own thoughts and feelings in a way that others can understand, and train yourself to empathize with the thoughts of others
(3) Re-examine your own creativity, while always being aware of the existence of others (users, society, etc.)
(4) Improve your skills in empathy, sorting out issues, setting goals, and ensuring logic through communication with the instructor and other participants
2. Use this as a step to demonstrate "entrepreneurship" and lead to the action of "developing and setting new value."
Student learning outcomes
実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)
Each element of entrepreneurship is directly relevant to the workplace. In addition, students will be able to practice and understand through their own work in teamwork workshops.
Keywords
Entrepreneurship, Consensus Building, Issues Identification, Social Issues, Leadership/Followership, Business Creation, Creativity
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
1. This is an intensive course, and the specific dates and content of each session will be announced at the Entrepreneurship "Leadership and Value Creation" course briefing session (pre-registration required) held at the beginning of the term, as well as on the Center for Entrepreneurship Education (CEE) website (https://www.cee.titech.ac.jp/) and the Academy for Leadership (ToTAL) website (https://www.total.titech.ac.jp/).
2. Due to the nature of the subject, attendaing all sessions should be recommended, and those who wish to enroll are strongly encouraged to attend the briefing session, check the schedule, and then enroll.
3. If there are more enrollments than the capacity, students may be selected.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Orientation | |
| Class 2 | Developing Creative Thinking through Art, Session 1 | Assignments will be indicated during class. Group work outside of class may be required. |
| Class 3 | Developing Creative Thinking through Art, Session 2 | Assignments will be indicated during class. Group work outside of class may be required. |
| Class 4 | Developing Creative Thinking through Art, Session 3 | Assignments will be indicated during class. Group work outside of class may be required. |
| Class 5 | Developing Creative Thinking through Art, Session 4 | |
| Class 6 | Design Thinking for Beginners, Session 1 | Assignments will be indicated during class. Group work outside of class may be required. |
| Class 7 | Design Thinking for Beginners, Session 2 | Assignments will be indicated during class. Group work outside of class may be required. |
| Class 8 | Design Thinking for Beginners, Session 3 |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
Course materials are provided during classes.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Reference books, lecture materials, etc. will be provided during class from time to time.
Evaluation methods and criteria
1. Comprehensive evaluation of participants' awareness of their purpose for participating, their understanding and engagement with the workshop theme, and their communication with group work members
2. Participation in all sessions is recommended, as experience working in the workshop and communication with participants and instructors are essential
Related courses
- ENT.L201 ： Group Work for Leadership Basics A
- ENT.L202 ： Group Work for Leadership Basics B
- ENT.V202 ： Group Work for Value Creation B
- ENT.V203 ： Group Work for Value Creation C
- ENT.V204 ： Group Work for Value Creation D
- ENT.V205 ： Bachelor's Practical Group Work for Value Creation A
- ENT.V206 ： Bachelor's Practical Group Work for Value Creation B
Prerequisites
None
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
Prof. Yamada, Prof. Matsuzaki, Prof. Watanabe (total.tokunin[at]total.titech.ac.jp)
Office hours
Personal meetings can be booked upon request; we also have drop-in virtual office hours on Friday, 13:00-14:00, except for holidays. For detail please submit a request from the form below:
https://forms.gle/kCDtXz2NcwHy8kSC9