Innovation Management
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.
- The lectures cover innovation management in research and practice.
- The group work contains case analysis connected to lectures.
- 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.
Due to the Covid-19 epidemic, a number of assessments and exams at Nord University are changed.
Amendments are made pursuant to the Midlertidig forskrift om tillegg til forskrift. 28. oktober 2020 nr 2474 om studier og eksamener ved Nord universitet- Ekstraordinære tiltak som følge av koronaepidemien jmf § 2, Vurderingsformer
In order to accommodate this, the form of assessment changes in the spring of 2022 from written school exam to home exam for this course.