Innovation and Business Development

Course outline

• Theoretical perspectives on innovation processes and entrepreneurship
• Business development and entrepreneurial decision making
• Resource and growth strategies
• Organization and governance practices for entrepreneurial firms
• Environments for entrepreneurship and innovation (incubators, innovation systems, etc.)

Knowledge: Students should understand and reflect on

• different theoretical approaches to innovative and entrepreneurial processes in new and established organizations
• current organizational and governance practices for innovation and entrepreneurship

Skills: Students

• develop a competence on how to formulate and organize new economic projects, by constituting new entrepreneurial firms or within established organizational units
• will improve the capacity of effective and innovative decision-making under uncertainty and business development
• should expand their understanding of how to infuse entrepreneurship and innovation within existing environments

General competence

• Students have a competence in organizing innovation and entrepreneurship

During this course there will be a combination of lectures, cases, group activities, and assignments.