Creativity & Innovativeness
5 ECTS | 75€ | On-site in Turku | 1-30 August 2024 with contact teaching 5-16 August 2024
The course includes insights on creativity tools and idea management, innovativeness and product /service development, sources of innovation and innovativeness, success and diffusion of innovations and open innovation.
Creativity as a skill
Creativity tools and idea management
Innovativeness and product /service development
Sources of innovation and innovativeness
Cynefin framework, Flexuous Curves and Estuarine Mapping
Learning outcomes
The student will be able to…
- 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.
Methods
Inquiry Based learning, individual and group work, project work, report, presentations.
Contact teaching in Turku 5 August – 16 August. The start of the course is online for pretask of inquiry into the subject theory.
Turku University of Applied Sciences
Timo Linnossuo
Place: Mainly in Turku, but includes also online studying (pretask).
Undergraduate students with at least two years of bachelor’s studies completed in any field.
Pre-task 55 h, lectures and mentoring 30 h, project work in groups 50 h = 135 h
Individually chosen books, articles and online theory on Creativity and innovation.
Grading 1-5
Max. 30 students