VTMED 6749

Agile Innovation in Animal Health-Hackathon

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

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.To receive a Satisfactory grade for the course, students must satisfactorily complete all three mandatory course components: 1) must attend and be an active participant in all three Agile Innovation lectures (two pre-Hackathon and one post), 2) must fully participate in a Hackathon team from team formation to pitch delivery, and 3) must satisfactorily complete all post-Hackathon course assignments. Failure to satisfactorily complete any of the three course components will result in an Unsatisfactory grade for the course.

Prerequisites Requires concurrent participation in the Cornell Animal Health Hackathon.

Enrollment Priority Enrollment limited to: veterinary students.

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

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