Objectives and competences
In this course students:
1. Enhance their theoretical knowledge in the field of various topics of innovation management.
2. Gain the ability to apply their theoretical knowledge in practice in the innovation management field.
3. Acquire holistic approach to analysis and understanding of innovating.
4. Develop the need for cooperation with different specialists and capacity for productive team work on their case studies.
5. Understand the innovative problem solving on all levels and in everyday practice.
6. Learn the need and possibilities of intellectual rights protection.
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.
Ethics and innovating.
Implementation and diffusion of novelties in society.
Innovative environments: Japan, USA, Europe
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.
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. Can demonstrate awareness of wider social and environmental ethical issues in areas of innovations.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
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.
Key/Transferable skills
Students:
1. Further develop skills and expertise in the use of knowledge in a specific working area.
2. Upgrade the ability to become an autonomous learner.
3. Upgrade the ability to work in pairs and groups.
4. Further develop their communication skills in an effective manner to effectively and professionally communicate.
Practical skills:
1. Get practical experience in the field of innovating.
2. Are able to act autonomously with defined guidelines and certain level of supervision.
Readings
Obvezna študijska literatura (Compulsory textbooks):
Zapiski predavanj v UM e studij MS Teams ali Moodlu in dodatni viri, s katerimi se študenti seznanijo na predavanjih / Lecture notes and additional sources instructed to students in the class
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Dodatna študijska literatura (Additonal textbooks):
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.
Rogers Everett M. (2003) Diffusion of Innovations, Free Press, New York, USA
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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