Program Overview

Management of Technological Innovation and Applied Business Modelling

Content, Progress, and Pedagogy of the Module

The module focuses on the management of technological innovation and applied business modelling, addressing the challenges companies face in competing under ever-changing conditions. It aims to provide students with insights into technological innovation management and applied business modelling, both as descriptive disciplines for existing businesses and as innovation disciplines for new businesses.

Learning Objectives

Knowledge

The objective is that the student possesses the necessary knowledge on:

• Main concepts, definitions, theories, and models related to the management of technological innovation processes and business models.
• Theories on how contextual factors affect innovation processes within firms.
• How to distinguish between different business models and innovation types applied in various industries.
• Insights into the important role of change in organizations and how firms should organize and manage such transition processes.

Skills

The objective is that the student possesses the necessary skills in:

• Finding, accessing, and assessing relevant data and information from databases and online sources on firms' innovation and business modelling activities.
• Identifying the various challenges involved in innovation processes and making recommendations for handling these challenges.
• Analytically and critically arguing for the most suitable business model for a new business based on data collected through desk and field research.
• Applying the business model as a strategic tool of communication within new business creation, including reflecting upon different archetypes of business models and scenarios of business model prototyping.

Competences

The objective is that the student possesses the necessary competences in:

• Independently coordinating and conducting an analysis of innovation processes in a firm.
• Developing recommendations for innovation management and applied business modelling in different types of organizations from both external and internal perspectives.
• Being self-reflective, critical, and open to different actors, competencies, and constraints through a process of organizational transition and change.

Type of Instruction

For information, see Ï 17.

Exam

Exams

• Name of exam: Management of Technological Innovation and Applied Business Modelling
• Type of exam: Oral exam based on a project
• ECTS: 10
• Assessment: 7-point grading scale
• Type of grading: Internal examination
• Criteria of assessment: The criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures.

Facts about the Module

• Danish title: Teknologisk innovationsledelse og anvendt forretningsmodellering
• Module code: KATEI20227
• Module type: Course
• Duration: 1 semester
• Semester: Autumn
• ECTS: 10
• Language of instruction: English
• Location of the lecture: Campus Aalborg
• Responsible for the module: Christian Richter Ästergaard, Yariv Taran, Ina Drejer
• Used in: Curriculum for the Master of Science (MSc) in Technology (Entrepreneurial Business Engineering), 2022

Organisation

• Education owner: Master of Science (MSc) in Technology (Entrepreneurial Business Engineering)
• Study Board: Study Board of Economics and Business Administration
• Department: Aalborg University Business School
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities