Creativity and Innovativeness

About

This course is a deep dive into what it is to be a Creative and Innovative Professional.
We will get acquianted with the Startup scene in Turku.

Creativity as a skill and identity
Creativity tools and idea management
Innovativeness and product /service development
Sources of innovation and innovativeness
Cynefin framework and Estuarine Framework
Learning outcomes

Methods: Inquiry Based learning, individual and group work, project work, report, presentations.

Date: 1 August – 30 August. Contact teaching in Turku 4 August – 15 August 2025. The start of the course is online for pretask of inquiry into the subject theory.

https://turkuabosummerschool.utu.fi/course-selection/creativity-and-innovativeness/

Course leader

Turku University of Applied Sciences

Target group

Undergraduate students with at least two years of Bachelor’s studies completed in any field.

Course aim

The student will be able to…

- Discover and develop his/her own Creativity and Innovativeness skills
- Apply creativity and innovation tools
- Use different sources of innovation (internal and external) to detect and exploit opportunities
- Analyse and describe how innovative firms are changing business reality
- Explain the importance of product/service development and the people and factors involved in the development work.

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