Objectives and competences
1. Understand that innovations are our daily activity and gain basic knowledge how to manage them.
2. Gain some insight into various topics of innovation processes.
3. Enhance their theoretical knowledge in the field of various topics of innovation management.
4. Gain the ability to apply their theoretical knowledge in practice in the innovation management field.
5. Acquire more holistic approach to analysis and understanding of innovating.
6. Develop the need for cooperation with different specialists and capacity for productive team work on their case studies.
7. Understand the innovative problem solving on all levels and in everyday practice.
Content (Syllabus outline)
Innovativeness in most developed societies;
Innovative management, social development and system theory;
Creativity, types of thinking and how to manage ideas;
Methods and techniques for creative work;
Implementation and diffusion of novelties in society;
Innovative environments.
Readings
Zenko, Zdenka (2019). Innovation management. Lectures and material, UM e studij Moodle, EPF, Maribor.
Pecjak, Vid (2001) Ways to New Ideas, New moment, Slovenia.
Rogers, E. M. (2003): Diffusion of Innovation, 5th ed. New York. Free Press
Zenko Zdenka: Comparative Analysis of Management Models in Japan, USA and Western Europe, Ph.D. Thesis, UM Faculty of Economics and Business, Maribor, Slovenia.
