Using design thinking at the Japanese university― for innovation and entrepreneurship education ―

This paper takes a radical review at the design thinking, to identify the features and characteristics of design thinking and promote students’ problem-solving skills regarding the application of design thinking to the Japanese educational system. Then try to build a model to introduce innovation and entrepreneurship curriculum using design thinking process, based on empathy, identify, ideate, prototype, test. Design thinking is increasingly used to mean the human-centered, open problem-solving procedure, it is generally defined as an analytic and creative process that engages a person in opportunities to experiment, create and prototype models, gather feedback, and redesign. The model has been implemented to build a secure program as a method to understand innovation and entrepreneurship and achieve the course objective and outcomes. The assessment of this method shows the high level of student engagements, collaboration, research, and presenting ideas and thoughts