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Technology and Innovation Management (VT IME) - Lecture

Technology and Innovation Management (VT IME) - Lecture

Project Description
The lecture aims at understanding technology and innovation management in companies, answering questions such as the core of innovation and how it can be promoted or the connection between strategy and innovation.Topics covered are:

  • Strategic management of technology-based firmsTechnology development and innovation
  • Classic and open innovation processCollaborative innovation
  • Intellectual property
  • Creativity and innovation
  • Organizing research and development
  • Ideation
  • Financing technology-based projects
  • Experimentation and prototyping
  • Success and success measures of innovation
Teaching Method
Interactive lecture with discussions, exercises and case studies
Learning Outcomes The students...
Professional Competence
  • know classical types of innovation
  • know the basics of intellectual property rights
  • understand the innovation process, as well as its funding
  • are able to use models of collaborative innovation in case studies
  • are able to analyze the assumptions of the realization or implementation of ideas
  • synthesize the learning content of the lecture within a project (idea generation up to the development of a prototype)
  • evaluate the performance of fellow students
Methodological Competence
  • know relevant scientific publications
  • understand scientific publications and are able to locate them within the body of literature
  • implement the learning content in a comprehensive innovation project
  • work with and solve case studies
  • implement the learning content in a comprehensive innovation
  • evaluate the performance of fellow students and rank oneself within all performances
Assessment Methods
  • Final Exam
Module number:
6110872
Courses:
42 L / 32 h
Self-study:
59 h
Scheduled Semester:
6