Innovation Management
Study Board for Continuing and Higher Education in Health & Social Sciences
Teaching language: English
EKA: B830807102
Censorship: Second examiner: None
Grading: 7-point grading scale
Offered in: Odense
Offered in: Autumn
Level: Professional Master
Course ID: B830807101
ECTS value: 5
Date of Approval: 04-04-2019
Duration: 1 semester
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Mandatory prerequisites
”Innovations- og forandringsledelse” cannot have been passed earlier on.
General admission requirements to the MBA programme.
General admission requirements to the MBA programme.
Aim and purpose
The purpose of the module is to provide the students with a fundamental introduction to innovation and innovation management departing in a conceptualization of the process of developing a new product or a new service. Based on this, the process, the opportunities, and the managerial challenges are explained across the stages from the initial idea to the finished product. We use changing conditions in the business environment as a starting point to introduce the student to innovation, innovation management and innovation processes. The course seeks to provide the student with knowledge and competencies to describe and understand concepts, theories and methods that can be applied to describe, analyze and solve specific problems related to innovation activities in organizations. The course ties in these organizational-level phenomena with the importance of employees as drivers and active participants in the process; in particular focus is on how their competencies and motives to participate in the innovative activities interact.
Content
- Environmental changes as point of departure for innovation
- What is innovation, and description of different typologies of innovation (product, service, process)
- Sources of innovation including basics of open innovation
- Innovation strategy – and the relationship with the business strategies of the organization
- Innovation processes and organization of innovation
- Identification and selection of innovative opportunities including portfolio considerations
- Innovative models and innovation methods
- Employee-driven innovation: competencies and motivation for engaging in innovation
Learning goals
The student must document an application-oriented overview as well as a deep understanding of the themes and problems that are part of the course curriculum in such a way that the student is able to apply this in respect to description, analysis and solution of often rather different types of innovation problems.
Description of outcome - Knowledge
Demonstrate knowledge on the course themes and problems in such a way that they are able to:
- Describe the fundamental concepts to understand innovation management – change, innovation and management
- Understand the fundamental innovation types, innovation processes, methods and strategy
- Describe the drivers of innovation
- Describe and understand the methods for identification and selection of innovation opportunities
- Describe the concept and foundation of employee-driven innovation focusing on competencies and motives
Description of outcome - Skills
- Identify relevant managerial challenges for organizational innovation activities and the role of the employees in these activities
- Apply various innovation tools to diagnose and prioritize innovation challenges in a concrete organization
- Formulate relevant proposals for solutions by applying relevant methods and literature to accommodate the managerial challenges
Description of outcome - Competences
•Assess the managerial challenges for innovation that a particular organization is facing
•Select proposals for solutions in accordance with the relevancy of internal and external sources of innovation
•Devise implementation proposals departing in organizational barriers among others the competencies and motives of employees
Literature
The following are exemplars of readings. The final literature is announced in the reading plan that will be available in August.
- Tidd og Bessant (5th ed.): Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change. John Wiley & Sons.
- Articles and cases
Teaching Method
Workload
The students own work efforts (guideline) equal 27 hours pr. ECTS credit point. In total 135 hours in this course. The hours are distributed on preparation and class attendance, preparation for exam and the exam itself.
The 135 work hours are distributed in the following way:
Lectures: 30
Preparation for lectures: app. 65 hours
Preparation for and the exam itself: app. 40 hours.
Examination regulations
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Exam: December or January
Reexam: February
Tests
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Take-home assignment
Censorship
Second examiner: None
Grading
7-point grading scale
Identification
Student Identification Card - Exam number
Language
Danish, English
Duration
48 hours take-home exam
Length
max. 10 normal pages
Examination aids
All exam aids allowed
Assignment handover
Via SDU-assignment in the course page in Blackboard.
Assignment handin
Via SDU-assignment in the course page in Blackboard.
ECTS value
5
Additional information
Participation in re-examination requires participation in the ordinary exam in the same examination period. Hence, non-participation in the ordinary exam excludes from access to the re-examination.
First-coming access to examination will be the following ordinary examination period.
EKA
B830807102
External comment
NOTE - This course is identical with the former course Innovation Management (9604701)
Used examination attempts in the former identical course will be transferred.
Courses that are identical with former courses that are passed according to applied rules cannot be retaken.
Courses offered
| Offer period | Offer type | Profile | Education | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2019 | Optional | MBA | Master of Business Administration - 2022 | | Odense |