Companies seeking to manage their innovation face a dynamic set of challenges, attitudes and values. The demand for better, cheaper and faster innovation is a dilemma that few companies have successfully overcome. Although the initial impetus for success in many firms comes from engineering breakthroughs, a successful transition to the market requires substantial input from Market.
The management of innovation is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-functional. This course aims to provide an integrative approach in managing market, technological and organisational changes for better innovation and focuses on the challenges companies face when they bring innovation to market.As innovation continues to be at the forefront of economic and political debate about how to improve the competitiveness of economies and firms, this course will give students insight into the problems faced by firms as they try to manage innovation and develop innovative products that will help them survive and prosper.
The main aim of this course is to bring together the areas of innovation management and new product development and to keep a strong emphasis on innovation as a management process. Designed to provide students with insights into the problems of the innovation process the material is applicable to big and small firms alike. There will be strong focus on innovation management, managing technology and knowledge, and new product development, including managing intellectual property, managing R&D projects, open innovation and technology transfer, and new service innovation.
Period
01-08-2011 - 26-08-2011 (4 weeks)
Target group
The University of Sussex International Summer School welcomes applicants from a wide range of educational backgrounds. Although most of you will be currently enrolled at a university or college, we also welcome applicants who have been away from education for some years, as well as highly committed senior high school students - for some courses a good general education, an open mind and lots of enthusiasm are the main qualifications. For some other courses you will see that prerequisites are listed - applicants for these courses are expected to submit transcripts to demonstrate that they have taken, or are currently taking, the necessary precursors.
Course aim
This is a great opportunity for secondary school students to prepare for college and acquire college credit, which you will usually be able to transfer to a future undergraduate degree. The International Summer School provides an opportunity to meet and study with people from different countries and cultures, on a cosmopolitan campus. The large range of courses on offer allows you to get ahead with credit in core courses, or simply to experiment with something new.
Credits
9.0 ECTS creditsSummer School courses carry 18 credits and last for four weeks. Since the standard annual load for a Sussex student is 120 credits, this means that each course is equivalent to four and a half semester hours or nine ECTS credits. Students can take only one course per session, as the courses are intensive. You can expect to spend 25 to 35 hours each week on your course between attending classes, labs and workshops, as well as time spent outside class preparing the readings and assignments. You can find information about the courses offered by the International Summer School through our course directory or courses by subject pages of our website.
Course fee
GBP 1250: Tuition only (one four week session).
GBP 2350: Tuition only (BOTH four week sessions).
Course leader
Rebecca Liu
Scholarships
The University of Sussex offers a limited number of scholarships for participation in the ISS in the form of partial fee waivers to students from developing countries who have high potential for future leadership in their field of study or career.
University of Sussex
Address: University of Sussex Brighton
Postal code: BN1 9RF
City: Brighton
Country: United Kingdom
Website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/iss/
E-mail: issoffice@sussex.ac.uk
Phone: 00441273678406
Management of Innovation
