Design Management and Innovations (3 cr)

Objectives (course unit)

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 (course unit)

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?

Location and time

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

Exam schedules

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

Assessment methods and criteria

to be announced on the Moodle learning platform

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

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

Learning materials

To be announced on Moodle or during the sessions

Student workload

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)

Content scheduling

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

Completion alternatives

not available