Innovation Management

Innovation – Creativity – Performance The digital transformation has fundamentally fueled the acceleration of innovation cycles: What’s new today is already old tomorrow. In order to stay in the game, corporations are investing in innovation management, sometimes in the form of freelance experts, sometimes by even making an innovation manager part of their team. As volatile and accidental innovation and creativity might seem, researchers have found strategies and factors to boost them, be it on an individual, a team or a strategic level. Innovation management is the combination of all these strategies. We want you to get to know those factors and apply them into your everyday life making this a big step on your future career ladder. Learn everything about innovation management, strategies and teams. Why is innovation so important and which factors in a company drive innovation? Take part in the process and develp your own case study project within a team, that you will present at the end of the course. Along with the focus on innovation management we will offer you multiple opportunities to get to know the area, meet students from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and to learn soemthing about German culture and history.

Course leader

Prof. Dr. Matthias Weiß

Target group

This RUB Summer School is especially interesting for undergraduates of civil engineering, economics & sales, but a broad range of students will benefit from a topic this relevant.

Course aim

Understand how innovation can help businesses to thrive and how innovation management can implement an innovation process into the structure of a company.