Innovation Management
The course contains research and practice of innovation management, which are important for organisational development and societal change. The students should acquire knowledge and develop skills and competencies to be able to manage innovation processes in an international context. The focus is on private firms but a complementary perspective is innovation management in other organisations. The course contains themes such as sources and types of innovation, innovation processes, innovation strategies and innovation teams and the organisation of innovation. The course is partially delivered in collaboration with Babson College, USA.
After the course, the student should have:
Knowledge:
- Advanced understanding of different theoretical perspectives on innovation management e.g. sources-, types- and outcomes of innovation, innovation processes, innovation strategies and innovation teams
- About factors that promote and hamper innovation in different organizations and settings
- About the influence of internal and external factors on innovation processes
Skills:
- Discuss management challenges in practice, in relation to strategic development of innovations inside firms and in relation to other external actors
- Actively contribute to innovation processes and business development
- Discuss and critically reflect for and against innovation in organisations
Competence:
- Apply innovation concepts to different types of organisations and settings
- Evaluate challenges and outcomes related to the development and management of innovation projects in organisations
- Critically assess insights from innovation management research
The teaching activities are lectures, group work, seminars and supervision. Most of these activities will be conducted online/digitally
- The lectures cover innovation management in research and practice.
- The group work contains case analysis connected to lectures and will be conducted in collaboration with our partner Babson College.
- Seminars cover discussions of case analysis.
- Supervision is provided for the group work.
The pedagogical idea is to use a flipped classroom approach with cases and exercises, where the students actively takes part in course activities. This requires preparation for the face-to-face meetings group deliveries.
- Mandatory individual task (arbeidkrav) relates to the mandatory project in groups.
- Mandatory oral presentation (arbeidskrav) relates to the mandatory project in groups.
- Mandatory project in groups (obligatorisk prosjektoppgave i gruppe) connects to innovation management process, challenges and outcomes.
- Supervisions with guidance related to the mandatory project in groups.
