Study Guide

Objective

You learn how to manage new services and product development processes and how to commercialize them.
You are able to identify and apply soft skills behind innovation management.
You learn how to manage collaborative innovation networks (i.e. crowdfunding, crowdsourcing).
You are able to manage complex internal and external innovation processes in firms.

Content

How to manage new service and product development processes and how to commercialize them?
What are the soft skills behind innovation management?
How to manage collaborative innovation networks (i.e. crowdfunding, crowdsourcing)?
How to manage complex internal and external innovation processes in firms?

Opiskelumateriaali

Materials will be published in Learn by the beginning of the course.
-The recommended book for the course: Innovation and entrepreneurship / John Bessant and Joe Tidd. - Third Edition. Wiley. Available in Xamk e-library.

Yksilölliset oppimisväylät

Certain course parts can be completed individually. However, a group work is motivated through an evaluated work task.

TKI ja työelämäyhteistyö

3 ECTS of this course are based on the RDI task(s).

Tentit ja muut määräajat

There are no exams or tests in this course. Students instead fulfill individual and group tasks.

Kansainvälinen yhteistyö

The students are provided by the international study and business examples and cases. RDI cooperation is aimed at international development.

Opiskelijan työmäärä

5 ECTS is equivalent to 135 hours of student work.

Toteutuksen osien kuvaus

The course content is based on international aspects of innovations, innovation competences and innovation management. More exact description will be given in the beginning of the course.

Further information

The first and second classes are organized in a hybrid mode. Students are encouraged to participate both in campus and remotely. The third (last) class is organized face-to-face in the Kouvola campus.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

50% of the course evaluation comes from a group task. 50% of the course evaluation comes from an individual task.