Innovation managementLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You are able to recognize and understand the steps of innovation from ideas and inventions to commercial services or products.

Content

The course deals with the following topics:
- research and development process of ideas
- invention process
- patenting of inventions
- intellectual property rights
- innovation process
- financing
- productization and commercialization of inventions
- marketing
- start-up entrepreneurship

Evaluation

Students can
a. use professional vocabulary and concepts extensively and proficiently in different situations.
b. justify their information sources in a versatile and critical way.
d. promote and develop operations in customer, user and target group situations.
e. evaluate and develop models, methods, software and techniques.

Materials

Business management and entrepreneurship