Innovation management in business (5 cr)
Code: MB00ED85-3003
General information
- Enrollment
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06.04.2022 - 22.04.2022
Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
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05.09.2022 - 31.12.2022
Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 3 cr
- Virtual portion
- 2 cr
- RDI portion
- 3 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Blended learning
- Unit
- Department of Business
- Campus
- Kouvola Campus
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 20 - 50
- Degree programmes
- Master's Degree Programme in International Business Management
- Teachers
- Mikhail Nemilentsev
- Teacher in charge
- Mikhail Nemilentsev
- Groups
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MBKV22KYInternational business management, master studies
- Course
- MB00ED85
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?
Course material
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.
Study forms and methods
Certain course parts can be completed individually. However, a group work is motivated through an evaluated work task.
RDI and work-related cooperation
3 ECTS of this course are based on the RDI task(s).
Timing of exams and assignments
There are no exams or tests in this course. Students instead fulfill individual and group tasks.
International cooperation
The students are provided by the international study and business examples and cases. RDI cooperation is aimed at international development.
Student workload
5 ECTS is equivalent to 135 hours of student work.
Course part description
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.