Health Tech Innovator (Summer School)
Academic Study Board of the Faculty of Engineering
Teaching language: English
EKA: T900018102
Censorship: Second examiner: None
Grading: 7-point grading scale
Offered in: Odense
Offered in: Summer school (autumn), Summer school (spring)
Level: Bachelor
Course ID: T900018101
ECTS value: 5
Date of Approval: 21-01-2021
Duration: Intensive course
Version: Archive
Course ID
Course Title
ECTS value
5
Internal Course Code
Responsible study board
Administrative Unit
Date of Approval
Course Responsible
| Name | Department | |
|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Nelann Rabjerg | cnra@tek.sdu.dk | TEK Uddannelseskoordinering og -support, Det Tekniske Fakultet |
| Lykke Margot Ricard | lmri@iti.sdu.dk | SDU Innovation and Design Engineering, Institut for Teknologi og |
Teachers
| Name | Department | City | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knud Bonnet Yderstræde | kyderstraede@health.sdu.dk | Klinisk Institut | |
| Lykke Margot Ricard | lmri@iti.sdu.dk | SDU Innovation and Design Engineering, Institut for Teknologi og | |
| Mette Juel Rothman | mjrothmann@health.sdu.dk | Klinisk Institut | |
| Søren Jensen | soj@iti.sdu.dk | SDU Global Sustainable Production, Institut for Teknologi og Inn |
Programme Secretary
| Name | Department | City | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christina Pytlick | cpy@tek.sdu.dk | TEK Uddannelseskoordinering og -support, Det Tekniske Fakultet |
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Mandatory prerequisites
A basic foundation of students own area of expertise; technology development, design engineering, health, medical and natural science obtained from minimum the bachelor level and currently being enrolled in a relevant university programme.
Recommended prerequisites
Learning objectives - Knowledge
- The healthcare ecosystem and innovation process
- User-driven innovation and other types of innovation processes; products, services and systems, in relation to health and healthcare
- IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) system and purpose in healthcare innovation
- CE marking (health, safety and environmental standards) for product sold within the European Economic Area
- Designing entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial activities
- Innovation management of multidisciplinary collaboration
Learning objectives - Skills
- To identify relevant problems in the healthcare system, generate ideas and develop a research design for an innovation process for developing potential solutions
- To generate ideas (solutions to a specific problem) and create different prototypes for health and healthcare innovation using SDU maker labs
- Use technology roadmapping as a platform for developing visual communication for the team’s innovation strategy
- Evaluate and critically reflect on processes and models used for prototyping healthtech innovation
- Evaluate and understand the innovation and entrepreneurial process in relation to healthcare and health technology
- Define own educational skills and competences that are be valuable in a health innovation process
- Perform a short presentation of a healthcare innovation (pitch)
Learning objectives - Competences
- Work with innovation processes for solving real life problems in healthcare systems
- Design an innovation process for healthtech using roadmapping
- Draft a business proposal based on a healthcare innovation
- Cooperate in a multidisciplinary team, to design and conduct health innovation process and utilize available resources in the process
- Integrate own professional skills and competences in a multidisciplinary context
- Communicate with peers and collaborate with different scientific disciplines
Content
The challenges of the healthcare systems are apparent. Lifespans are longer and disease trajectories have become more complicated and protracted. These socioeconomic factors create a lot of pressure of the current health care systems. In order for the system to be able to cope with the future challenges innovation is needed. Great opportunities lies in utilizing some of the new revolutionizing technologies, thus the purpose of this Summer course is to strengthen cooperation between healthcare professionals and engineers for solving healthcare challenge.
This Summer school is relevant to students who want to learn about the innovation process in the healthcare industry. In a series of lectures, we will take participants through the important parts of the innovation process in healthtech, from wicked problems, user-driven innovation, entrepreneurial foundational theories and innovation management tools for aligning entrepreneurial processes with solving real life problems to Intellectual property rights (IPR) and CE marking (health, safety and environmental standards) for product sold within the European Economic Area.
Applying project work as a participant-driven framework, participants will practise theoretical learnings in teams working with problems that need multidisciplinary knowledge, skills and competencies.
The project work will run as a design innovation management project and the real-life cases will be presented by external stakeholders e.g. problem-holders (the university hospital, industry and patient organisations).
Lectures will be given by SDU faculty members and external guest lectures from industry, healthcare sector and user-representations.
Keywords for the lectures are:
Healthcare sector, eco system of healthcare sector, industry and product development, Innovation modelling, user-driven innovation, technology roadmapping, prototyping and business modelling.
Time of classes
Two weeks in August.
URL for Skemaplan
Teaching Method
Lectures, project work and external company presentations.
Readings:
A compendium on Blackboard with course readings.
Time of classes:
Two weeks in August.
Number of lessons
hours per week
Teaching language
Examination regulations
Exam regulations
Name
Exam regulations
Examination is held
Examination is held in the end of the course
Tests
Exam
EKA
T900018102
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Exam
Description
The examination is based on an overall assessment of:
- Attendance (80 %)
- A complete portfolio according to specifications announced at the beginning of the course
Form of examination
Portfolio
Censorship
Second examiner: None
Grading
7-point grading scale
Identification
Student Identification Card - Date of birth
Language
English
ECTS value
5
Additional information
Please note that registration for this course is binding.
Enrollment is limited to 25 students. If more applicants than places, applicants who meet the mandatory requirements are prioritised according to the below selection criteria:
- Students from SDU-TEK (provided the course is approved as an elective on their study programmes ) and SDU-SUND
- Students from SDU-NAT provided the course is approved as an elective on their study programmes
- Other students from SDU-TEK, SDU-SUND, SDU-NAT or SDU-SAMF with pre-approval of credit transfer
- Other students from SDU-TEK
- Other students from SDU-NAT
- Other students from SDU
Note: If further selection criteria is needed this will be based on a first-come-first-served basis.