Innovation, Culture and Industry

The course is about innovation and culture. The focus is on innovative activities in the culture business and on the different cultures of innovation. The course emphasizes on local entrepreneurship and the need for interdisciplinary expertise. The course examines the knowledge contribution of the humanities and the social sciences in the innovation processes.

Students will have knowledge about:

• what innovation is and how innovation is done
• different perspectives on interdisciplinary innovative enterprise
• innovation as a communication challenge

Students will have skills in:

• analyzing innovation as communication and learning
• analyzing interdisciplinary processes
• how to write an argumentative text

Lectures and seminars. Representatives from various cultural industries will be invited to participate in teaching. Home exam requires approval of one written assignment.