Innovation Management

The main themes include:

• Types of innovations.
• Innovation strategies.
• The role of innovation for organizations.
• Innovation models and innovation processes.
• Technology and innovation.
• Innovation and cooperation, including "open innovation".
• Suppliers and innovation.
• Customers, market knowledge, and innovation.
• Sustainability as a key driver of innovation.

Knowledge:

• Advanced knowledge about different types of innovations and innovation processes.
• Advanced knowledge about different roles customers, suppliers, and other companies can play in innovations.
• Wide insight into the role of innovations for companies.

Skills:

• Can participate in the planning and execution of innovation processes in organizations.
• Can contribute to the post-launch review of innovation projects.
• Can cooperate with customers and suppliers on innovation.
• Be able to understand and analyze different issues related to innovation management.

General competencies:

• Can understand and analyze innovation processes.
• Can assess critical challenges associated with the execution of an innovation process.
• Can contribute to integrative thinking about innovations in an organization.

Lectures and exercises