Content (Syllabus outline)
Innovativenes in most developed societies.
Holistically understanding innovativeness with system thinking.
Impact of social responsibility and sustainable development on innovating.
Definition of innovation and importance of development of society.
Creativity and how to manage ideas.
Ways and types of thinking
Methods and techniques for creative work.
Design thinking. Ethics and innovating.
Implementation and diffusion of novelties in society.
Innovative environments: Japan, USA, Europe
Importance and management of trademarks, industrial designs, patents and copyright.
Case studies.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Development of knowledge and understanding:
Students:
1. Acquire specific knowledge in the field of innovating.
2. Have a detailed knowledge of theories in the field of innovating.
3. Learn to recognise interconnections in the field of innovating.
4. Develop the skills to interpret the gained results in the field innovations.
Cognitive/Intellectual skills:
Students:
1. Understand and apply critical analysis and theory development in the area of innovating and their usability in solving real professional problems, with minimum guidance.
2. Get the ability to search for and synthesize new information from the field of innovating in literature and praxis.
3. Synthesize different knowledge and procedures and are aware of importance of use of professional literature.
4. Can select appropriate techniques for problem solving and are able to evaluate the importance and significance of data.
5. Can identify key aspects of problem from different viewpoints.
5. Learn how to analyse and synthesise different approaches in the field of innovation processes.
6. Are able to pursue further analysis regarding innovating.
7. Are qualified to control and supervise all stages of invention and innovation process and its introduction to market.
8. Have some capacity to create and at least partially manage industrial property.
9. Can demonstrate awareness of wider social and environmental ethical issues in areas of innovations.
Readings
Obvezna študijska literatura (Compulsory textbooks):
Zapiski predavanj v UM e studij MS Teams in dodatni viri, s katerimi se študenti seznanijo na predavanjih / Lecture notes and additional sources instructed to students in the class
Ženko, Zdenka. Inoviranje z družbeno odgovornostjo kot vir novih priložnosti = Innovating with social responsibility as a source of new opportunities. V: Štrukelj, Tjaša (ur.), Boršič, Darja (ur.). Inoviranje posameznika, podjetij in družbe za družbeno odgovornost in dobro počutje : strokovna monografija, (Knjižna zbirka Sodobna ekonomija in poslovanje - SEP, ISSN 2232-4593, 4). Maribor: Ekonomsko-poslovna fakulteta. 2014, str. 40-51. [COBISS.SI-ID 11897628]
Dodatna študijska literatura (Additonal textbooks):
Ženko, Zdenka in Mulej, Matjaž (2011). Innovating measurement of economic success for more accurate information = Inoviranje merjenja ekonomskega uspeha za bolj ustrezne informacije. Naše gospodarstvo, letn. 57, št. 5/6.
Ženko, Zdenka, Mulej, Matjaž. Preconditions for the management of invention-innovation diffusion process. International journal of productivity management and assessment technologies, ISSN 2160-9837, 2014, vol. 2, iss. 1, str. 39-50.
Ženko, Zdenka, Šardi, Valentina. Systemic thinking for socially responsible innovations in social tourism for people with disabilities. Kybernetes, ISSN 0368-492X, 2014, vol. 43, no. 3/4, str. 652-666.
Schilling Meslissa (2005) Strategic Management of Technological Innovation, McGrawHill, New York, USA
Rogers Everett (2003) Diffusion of Innovations. Free press, New York.
Ženko, Zdenka. Comparative analysis of management models in Japan, United States of America, and Western Europe: doctoral dissertation, (Ekonomsko-poslovna fakulteta, Maribor, Doktorske disertacije, 73). Maribor: [Z. Ženko], 1999. 327 str.
Drugi novi mednarodni in slovenski viri po sprotnem izboru
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