Elective courses

1.   Finance of Innovation

•  Financing innovation in companies
•  Risks of investment in innovation
• Methods for assessing investment opportunities of innovation projects
• Venture capital

2.   Intellectual Property Management

• Ownership of ideas and intellectual property rights (IPR) protection
• IP management strategies in organizations
•  Evaluation of IPR

 
 3.   Corporate Foresight

• Basic concepts of Corporate Foresight
• Foresight in decision making
• Roadmapping as a tool for  priority setting

4.     Managing Creativity and Innovation

•  Managing creative process
•  Idea generation techniques
•  Creativity and corporate culture

5.    Public Private Partnerships (PPP) for STI

• The role of PPP in STI
• PPP mechanisms in the field of innovation
• Assessment of PPP performance in the field of innovation

6.   Regional STI Policy

• Objectives of regional STI policy
• The Smart Specialisation concept
• Analysis of regional innovation performance

7.  Social Studies of STI

• Theoretical foundations of STI Studies
• Social analysis of STI
• Public perception of Science and Technology
•  Innovation behaviour of population

• The Meaning of marketing innovation
• Market research and customer development in technological markets 
• Market strategy framework for innovations
• Marketing mix for innovative products

• The meaning of business model innovation
• Main areas of change in business model innovation
• The implementation challenges of BMI in large corporations: the role of culture for innovation 
• Business models for markets – multinationals with diverging local business models

• User-driven innovation for economic and social development
• Basic concepts used in literature to describe user-driven innovation as economic and social phenomenon
• Reflection on key tensions that appear in scientific papers standing for different approaches to conseptualisation and analysis of issues related to innovation development and diffusion and engagement of users