The course is designed to provide students in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program introduction to the fundamental concepts required in order to innovate in the biomedical sciences. This course builds on groundwork laid in the Introduction to Pharmaceutical Sciences and Translational Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences courses which provide foundational knowledge across the spectrum of disciplines from drug discovery and drug development through preclinical study and clinical trials to therapeutic practice and outcomes-based investigations. Individuals with advanced degrees are society's innovators. This course will assist students in developing the skills needed to drive the creation of new innovative treatments and technologies. Whether creating new knowledge, new drug products, new companies, new therapeutic approaches, or new healthcare policies, the underlying skills are shared. Fundamental aspects of the innovation process will be presented in the context of shared paradigms for creation utilized in many settings: Significance, Innovation, and Scientific Approach. The Pharmaceutical Sciences innovative process shown here was adapted from the Stanford Biodesign innovation process phases of Identify, Invent, and Implement.