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Management of Innovation (N1049)

15 credits, Level 5

Spring teaching

This module aims to equip you with the knowledge to understand and the skills to manage innovation at the operational level.

The management of innovation is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-functional, so we will provide an integrative approach to the management of innovation, and how this influnces and is influnced by business models and value propositions. Specifically, we aim to integrate the management of market, technological and organizational change to improve the competitiveness of firms and effectiveness of other organizations.

You will see that the process of innovation management is essentially generic, although organizational, technological and market-specific factors will constrain choices and actions. The module explores:

• process-, product/service-, postion- and pradigm-based innovations
• the management of innovation and the management required for innovation to happen in the first place
• new product- and service-based approaches
• social and green innovation
• innovation commericalistion, diffusion and networks and innovation forcasting from a managerial and organisational perspective.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 117 hours of independent study. The Â鶹´«Ã½ may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2024/25. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.