Teaching Innovation Program

The sustainable development demanded by our emerging economies presents a significant challenge and opportunity for the creation of new sustainable business models that foster economic, environmental and social advances. As one of the leading business schools in Latin America and the world, EGADE is committed to implement these new business models in the entrepreneurial community of our region.

The proposed project is based on the design of a concentration, within the MBA program, on Sustainable Development and Technology Management that supports the creation of new sustainable businesses. The design of this concentration includes learning processes for business leaders to acquire the ability of combining financial goals and sustainability goals in the context of a new economy. The participants will be able to innovate and use technology as a means to create wealth and contribute to sustainable development.

This concentration, instead of being structured with lectures and quarter long courses, will be centered on a combination of learning experiences: a yearlong project (based on the teaching method POL, Project Oriented Learning) and a sequence of short problems (PBL, Problem Based Learning), where the students develop the specific competencies required by the project. As part of this academic program, EGADE will integrate the research of other areas in the Tecnologico de Monterrey and the network of research centers in Mexico, coordinated by CONACYT (Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology), in order to create a platform of innovative technology ideas capable of becoming new sustainable businesses. In addition, EGADE is developing the ability to evaluate and valuate the financial and market potential of innovative business plans, and their compliance with sustainability requirements. Additionally, an important activity will be to publish research focused on the process of creating new sustainable and technology-based businesses in emerging economies.

This academic program is aimed to attract the best innovative research projects from the Tecnologico de Monterrey and Mexican research centers, the financial support and involvement from public and private sectors, and the best practices in the creation of new businesses from partner universities around the world. This project is aligned to EGADE's strategy of being an assertive change agent, redefining the concept of business as-usual to new sustainable businesses based on technology, in order to create the potential for an economy of innovation, knowledge, entrepreneurship and value added.

This project is aligned to EGADE's strategy of being an assertive change agent, redefining the concept of business as-usual to new sustainable businesses based on technology, in order to create the potential for an economy of innovation, knowledge, entrepreneurship and value added.