The Art of In­nov­a­tion

Course content

Managing innovative business and business processes have become increasingly relevant in the current competitive business environment that favours novelty, innovation and originality as sources of value. Innovative practices provide organizations with powerful methods for innovating products, services, systems and experiences. In this course, we investigate these practices in order to learn how to provide organisational conditions for innovative processes that lead to competitive advantage. We build our knowledge dynamically in class through course literature-based analyses of a set of challenges, in order to develop a more precise understanding of the organisational conditions for creativity/entrepreneurship and innovation processes. This includes an emphasis on understanding innovation capabilities, culture, processes, strategies that enable groups to engage in collaborative creativity and innovation, as well as what leadership is required.
 
The pedagogical approach is highly interactive and group-work based, driven by solving a problem set at the beginning of the course. By engaging in class and group discussions, students will learn how to make decisions regarding the organisational conditions for innovation practices.