Innovation management in business (5 cr)

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.

Extra sources for those who interested:

Unlocking the Customer Value Chain: How Decoupling Drives Consumer Disruption – by Thales S. Teixeira & Greg Piechota
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail - by Clayton M. Christensen
Find Your Why – by Simon Sinek, David Mead, Peter Docker
Design Thinking and Innovation Metrics – by Michael Lewrick
The Human Side of Innovation: The Power of People in Love with People - by Mauro Porcini
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure - by Vaclav Smil
Intended Consequences: How to Build Market-Leading Companies with Responsible Innovation - by Hemant Taneja, Kevin Maney, et al.

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

4 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 course will be organized mainly on campus in the presence mode.

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.