Knowledge and Innovation Management (5op)

Osaamistavoitteet

Knowledge and innovation management are fundamental concepts for designing and implementing the corporate strategy in rapidly emerging knowledge based industries. Therefore, the aim of this course is to introduce the field of organisational knowledge management as the corner stone of firm’s competitive advantage and their ability to innovate such as; creation of new products or developing new markets in a globally competitive business environment. In this view the (a) role (b) capacity and the (c) mechanisms of knowledge sharing among organizations are seen as the fundamental issues for the creation of innovations (e.g., new products development and business model innovations) and thus sustaining a higher profitability than industry average and the creation of new markets.
The main topics
Knowledge, its definition
The knowledge economy and the new competitive landscape
Knowledge based industries and need for knowledge and innovation management
Firm s knowledge, competences and competitiveness
Knowledge assets: development and management of knowledge assets
IPR and the complexities of appropriating innovations
Innovation management, the business case for innovation
Business model innovation
The internationalisation of innovation
International innovation networks

Sisältö

- Firm's knowledge resource as part of the strategic management orientation of the firm
- Firm's knowledge and strategic competence
- The performance of firm's knowledge capital
- Innovation as knowledge translation
- Shifting competitive landscape
- Types of innovation
- Business model
- Business model innovation
- Types of business model innovation
- Business model innovation and industry profits

Arviointikriteerit, tyydyttävä (1)

Assessment:
Participation in the contact week session 10%
Participation (active participation in discussions and reflections) in lecture sessions 10%
Individual project work 80%
GRADING CRITERIA INDICATORS