Learn how to create, develop and implement innovations such as new products, new services, new processes, and new business models. Acquire creativity, project management, portfolio management and other innovation management skills. Tap into state-of-the art academic knowledge and the extensive experience of professionals from multinationals and innovative start-ups through real-life teaching cases, interactive guest lectures, company visits, and business projects.
Curriculum
Core courses:
- Strategy of Innovation
- Organisation of Innovation
- Your Future Career
- Research Fundamentals Course
- Design Thinking
- Implementing Innovations
- Thesis
Electives:
- High Performance Leadership
- Innovation and Standardisation Management
- Open Innovation
- Patent Law and Strategy for Managers
- Circular Economy
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Mastering Networks for Innovation
- Innovation in Practice
- Design Thinking for Innovation
- Coaching for Innovation
- New Business Development
- MI Company-bases research project
- Managing innovation in the Web3 era
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Mode of education
In addition to lectures, you will work in small groups on business cases and assignments. Many of the exercises are carried out in teams. Skills training, presentations, visiting lecturers and practitioners are all part of the curriculum. In order to graduate you will be trained in analytical and research skills and must write an individual thesis on a topic of your choice.