Managing Innovation

About the course

Subjects

Innovation Organisation

Course content

What enables some firms to continuously innovate and capture market shares while others fail and go out of business? This course builds analytical insight into relationships between knowledge, innovation and competitiveness and into their implications for the management of innovation. Innovation is by definition an activity with uncertain outcomes and we will discuss how organizations can successfully navigate situations characterized by high ambiguity and volatility. The course introduces theories, concepts, and methods for the analysis of innovations at the levels of projects, firms and industries, in order to develop students’ analytical skills and critical thinking. The course also introduces a set of tools related to innovation practices of firms, as one of the ways in which the course bridges and integrates academic analysis of innovations with the practical issues of their management.

See course description in course catalogue

What you will learn

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

Account for the main terms and definitions central in economics and management of innovation
Recognize how the economics and governance of different organizational types affect their behavior in innovation
Analyze the characteristics of inter-organizational collaboration on innovation and recognize the skills required to handle them
Integrate a number of factors, internal and external to the organization, in decision-related analysis
Describe and assess the potential for formal and informal external knowledge sourcing and how it may help the organization to pursue innovations

Facts

Level

Master

Type

Mandatory course

ECTS

7.5

Code

CSOAO1007U

Teaching periods

Spring – semester

Spring – 3rd quarter

Academic year

2025/2026

Status

Available places

Teaching language

English

Teaching Format

Hybrid

Exams

Written exam on campus
Individual exam, spring

Assessment type

7 point grading scale