Managing Innovation for Sustainability
Upon successful completion of this course, students should have developed the following competencies:
Knowledge:
Advanced knowledge, as well as the ability to use and analyze knowledge/issues within the following topis:
- Paradigms for innovation of sustainability, their characteristics, value, management implications and key knowledge gaps. These include paradigms such as neo-liberal economy, ecological economy, regenerative, nudging (behavioral economics), indigenous and relational perspectives.
- Perspectives on sustainability within the three main empirical contexts. The challenges, potentials and approaches used in IFS within these contexts.
- Stakeholder theory, partnerships and participative methods in innovation and IFS. These cover network-driven innovation, lab-driven innovation, utopia-workshops and dialogues, management of and facilitation for open participative (co-creation) innovation/IFS processes.
- Causes and implications of spatial pressures and conflicts across sectors and stakeholder groups, and strategies to prevent escalation while promoting collaboration and coexistence.
- Examples of strategies used in IFS at different levels (e.g. product, process, organizational, business models, community), and new concepts such as workation/remote work and co-working spaces.
Skills: Upon completing the course, the candidate can:
- Work with innovative solutions for sustainability in various contexts, sectors and levels of governance.
- Design, implement and evaluate participatory and collaborative methods for IFS, such as conducting a lab process with stakeholders.
- Analyze, critique and discuss the main challenges and opportunities for sustainability and IFS within and across sectors and levels of analysis, and their implications for management.
General competence: The candidate can:
- To acquire and apply relevant research-based knowledge within the course topics, and communicate about it.
- To participate effectively in work with sustainability and innovation for sustainability.
All support materials allowed in the work with innovation project, but one has to report references and mark if texts are made by others (including AI). In oral exam, one can bring own innovation project report, but no other aid. Generating an answer using ChatGPT or similar artificial intelligence and submitting it wholly or partially as one's own answer is considered cheating.