MSc in Business Administration and Innovation in Health Care
The Health Care Innovation Project
About the course
What you will learn
Learning objectives for Industry Hosted Projects:
- Overall ability to contribute to problem solving in a specific innovation pursued by the host organization. This contribution may focus on an aspects of the specific innovation as a whole.
- This overall ability in problem solving comprises competences referring to:
- - transforming the innovation challenges experienced by the host into a problem formulation lending itself to rigorous analysis and use of existing academic literature
- - conducting collection and analysis of data inside and outside the host organization, using relevant methodologies, and demonstrating an understanding of the potentials and limitations of those methodologies
- - understanding and recommendations regarding the way the host can implement and utilize the results of the project
- - presenting and explaining results in a face to face meeting with the project host in a way which is useful and engaging for the project host.
- - Ability to apply, when relevant tools, concepts and theories acquired in courses from the first year of MSc IHC.
- Learning objectives for Literature-based Projects:
- Ability to develop a problem statement of importance for a defined section of the overall healthcare value chain (e.g. large device companies, start-ups in digital health, hospitals or primary care actors).
- Ability to address the problem by identifying and utilizing relevant literature or secondary data, and to demonstrate methodological competences in assessing, applying and combining these different sources.
- Ability to develop conclusions that are relevant for important decisions or direction of actions by your chosen section of actors, and to reflect on the implications and applicability of your conclusions.
- Ability to apply, where relevant, tools, concepts and theories acquired in courses from the first year of MSc IHC.