Design Management and Innovations (3 op)

Osaamistavoitteet (Opintojakso)

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

Sisältö (Opintojakso)

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?

Aika ja paikka

Intensive weeks 27.5. - 4.6.2024 in Qilu + pretask + report

Tenttien ja uusintatenttien ajankohdat

tests are run during the course; retakes according to the university policies

Arviointimenetelmät ja arvioinnin perusteet

to be announced on the Moodle learning platform

Arviointiasteikko

0-5

Opiskelumuodot ja opetusmenetelmät

online sessions, onsite workshops (flipped classroom), literature, presentations, different kind of learning tasks and tests, report

Oppimateriaalit

To be announced on Moodle or during the sessions

Opiskelijan ajankäyttö ja kuormitus

This course is 3 ECTS credits which equals 81 hours of students' work:
28 contact hours during the 2 intensive weeks; 7 x 3,5 hours
53 independent work (pretask + report)

Sisällön jaksotus

1: what is an innovation; inspiring examples
2: innovation management
3: innovation strategy
4: innovative organization & development of innovative culture
5: innovation process

Toteutuksen valinnaiset suoritustavat

not available