Design Management and InnovationsLaajuus (3 cr)

Objectives

The course provides theoretical overview and tools to successfully run a business driven consultation project. It provides insights of product and services development process and the positioning of innovation into right marketplace. Also, creating a reasonable business model and basics of ensuring the intellectual property rights (IPR’s) are discussed.

After completing the course, students will be able to:
Use different innovation methods in practice
Evaluate the business feasibility of innovations, products and services
Understand the product and service design process phases
Identify the critical phases of product and service design projects

Content

How to foster innovations?
How to develop products and services from innovations?
What are intellectual property rights and how to ensure them?
How to evaluate project business feasibility?