Description

1. Understand that innovations are our daily activity and gain basic knowledge how to manage them.
2. Gain some insight into various topics of innovation processes.
3. Enhance their theoretical knowledge in the field of various topics of innovation management.
4. Gain the ability to apply their theoretical knowledge in practice in the innovation management field.
5. Acquire more holistic approach to analysis and understanding of innovating.
6. Develop the need for cooperation with different specialists and capacity for productive team work on their case studies.
7. Understand the innovative problem solving on all levels and in everyday practice.

Instructors

red. prof. dr. ZDENKA ŽENKO, univ. dipl. ekon.

Contents

Innovativeness in most developed societies
Innovative management, social development and system theory
Creativity, types of thinking and how to manage ideas
Methods and techniques for creative work
Implementation and diffusion of novelties in society
Innovative environments
Case studies

Recommended Readings and Tools

Zenko, Zdenka (2019). Innovation management. Lectures and material, UM e studij Moodle, EPF,Maribor.
Pecjak, Vid (2001) Ways to New Ideas, New moment, Slovenia.
Rogers, E. M. (2003): Diffusion of Innovation, 5th ed. New York. Free Press
Zenko Zdenka: Comparative Analysis of Management Models in Japan, USA and Western Europe, Ph.D. Thesis, UM Faculty of Economics and Business, Maribor, Slovenia.

Planned Activities

Lecturing discussion
AV presentation
Case studies
Team work
Seminar paper

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Seminar paper: 40%

Written examination: 40%

Active participation on lectures and worksops: 20%