Innovation ManagementLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

- You learn how to use the essential methods of development work and apply creative operations models.
- You can promote creativity, innovation, and productivity in a team.
- You are able to estimate business opportunities of an innovation.
- You are able to analyze business opportunities by future research methods.
- You are able to develop and evaluate new innovative ideas.
- You learn how to productize, commercialize and manage different types of innovations in businesses.
- You learn the characteristics of innovation ecosystems in the international context.
- You are able how to manage innovation processes effectively in existing and new organisations.
- You learn the characteristics and implementation principles of closed and open innovation.
- You learn how to plan, implement and evaluate an innovation strategy for profit and non-profit businesses.
- You are able to design sustainable innovation processes in organisations.

Content

- How to plan, implement and assess an innovation strategy for profit and non-profit businesses?
- How to design sustainable innovation processes in organisations?
- What are the principles and application of the creative operations models?
- How to promote creativity, innovation and productivity at individual and team level?
- How to analyse business opportunities of an innovation?
- How to apply future research methods in the analysis of new business opportunities?
- How to productize, commercialize and manage different types of innovations in business?
- What are the characteristics of innovation ecosystems in the international context?
- How to develop and manage innovation processes in existing and new organisations?
- What are the characteristics and implementation principles of closed and open innovation?
- What are the principles and methods of developing and evaluating new innovative ideas?
- How to plan and operate the user-driven innovation process?

Evaluation

Students can
- evaluate information sources critically.
- work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.
- promote teams’ goal-oriented operation.
- apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations.