Innovation Entrepreneurship & Technology Center

Online, on-demand and self-paced courses.

Labs and certificate courses that take you from idea to launched product — built for students, founders, researchers and corporate teams. Learn on your own schedule, and finish with something you've actually built.

Online — learn from anywhere
On-demand — start when you're ready
Self-paced — set your own schedule

Courses of the IETC

Online and on-demand self-paced exercises that take you from idea to launched product.

01

Digital Product Management

A 13-week online, on-demand certificate course. Go from customer discovery to a launched AI-enabled web app, mobile app, or digital tool — with real users and real metrics — using no-code and AI-powered platforms. No coding background required.

Available Fall 2026 JMD$2,500
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02

Technology Lab

A broad research and development environment focused on systems design and engineering, systems integration, and quality assurance.

Available Spring 2027 JMD$2,500
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03

Leadership Lab

An experiential training program designed to build management capacity, strategic communication, and executive decision-making skills for founders and corporate managers.

Available Spring 2027 JMD$2,500
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04

Go-to-Market (GTM) Engineering Lab

A strategic workshop focused on crafting launch playbooks, analyzing competitor pricing models, and finalizing customer acquisition channels for immediate product rollouts.

Available Spring 2027 JMD$2,500
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05

Innovation and Development Financing Lab

A workspace focused on designing new economic structures, blended financing tools, and public-private funding models to back large-scale global development projects.

Available Spring 2027 JMD$2,500
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06

Grant Writing Lab

A hands-on training workshop where researchers and entrepreneurs draft, review, and refine competitive funding proposals to secure government or philanthropic grants.

Available Spring 2027 JMD$2,500
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07

Fintech Lab

A guided project where developers and financial institutions build, prototype, and test disruptive technologies — ecommerce, payment processing, digital markets, micro-finance, open banking, wealth management, decentralized finance tools, and APIs.

Available Fall 2026 JMD$2,500
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08

Funding Lab

A high-intensity program that pairs pitch-ready startups with venture capitalists to structure funding rounds, term sheets, and investor matchmaking strategies.

Available Spring 2027 JMD$2,500
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09

Prompt Engineering Lab

A specialized technical workspace dedicated to optimizing natural language inputs, structured outputs, and context-window efficiency across different LLMs.

Available Spring 2027 JMD$2,500
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10

Vibe Coding Lab

An experimental sandbox where developers build functional applications entirely through conversational natural-language prompting and automated codebase generation tools.

Available Spring 2027 JMD$2,500
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11

AI Agent Lab

An engineering hub focused on building, testing, and chaining autonomous software agents capable of multi-step reasoning, tool usage, and complex task execution.

Available Spring 2027 JMD$2,500
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12

AI Business Lab

A corporate innovation center where businesses identify operational workflows to automate, audit data readiness, and deploy custom enterprise AI systems.

Available Spring 2027 JMD$2,500
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Course registration

Select a course and complete your details to register.

Questions? Email dirinnovations@ucc.edu.jm or call 876-791-4650.

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