The School of Design offers tailored courses, hackathons, and workshops, integrated into undergraduate and master’s degree programs, to provide students with the theoretical and practical tools needed to transform an idea into a successful entrepreneurial opportunity.
Through engaging and educational experiences, you will have the opportunity to test your skills and learn how to create effective business models, turning an idea into a concrete and successful project.
Design Startup
Starting a startup is an opportunity for young designers to become independent and contribute to innovation. This course provides theoretical and practical tools to assess the feasibility of a business idea, transform it into a concept, and validate its business model. Through interactive lessons with experts and startup founders, students will acquire the skills to develop a successful idea and present it effectively through an Elevator Pitch.
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Venture Design
The course is designed for young designers who want to understand how to become entrepreneurs in their future. The goal is to inspire students to transform a need first into an initial idea and then into an opportunity for entrepreneurial success. The course will help students identify a real need to build upon, supporting its development and guiding them in recognizing the key factors for success in the market and creating a new venture. The approach will be based on a design-driven methodology co-developed between the Design + Strategies group of the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano and DesignX – MIT. | Program Details Professors Course link:
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Summer Workshop
The workshop will provide the opportunity to understand, through a design-driven methodology, how to generate new entrepreneurial ideas (related to new product-service systems) and transform them into ventures ready to be launched on the market. It is designed for young designers who want to explore the entrepreneurial world at the end of their academic career. | Program Details Professors Course Link: |
24h Hackathon POLIMI & MIT
A 24-hour hackathon connecting designers and innovators from Politecnico di Milano and MIT, through a dedicated course designed by both universities. Open to students in the third year of the bachelor’s degree and the first and second year of the master's degree, enrolled in the School of Design. In collaboration with MIT & POLI.design. Teams of students from Politecnico di Milano, POLI.design and MIT will collaborate virtually from Milan and Cambridge to devise and co-create innovation opportunities to address the climate crisis and other urgent social conditions.
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