Innovation Management in Praxis

  • Credits: 6
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 4C
  • Semester: winter
  • Year: 2
  • Faculty of Economics and Finance

Teachers

Included in study programs

Management of Public Policies

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- acquiring knowledge about inventions and innovations, innovation management,
- what is the management of the innovation process, what are the stages of the innovation process, how to use the potential in the company in order to increase the performance of the company while effectively using business resources
- acquisition of knowledge on the protection of intellectual property
Competences:
- the ability to synthesize basic knowledge in the field of innovation, innovation processes, management and their interconnection with increasing competitiveness, ability to apply knowledge and critically analyze barriers to innovative business.
Skills:
- preparation of individual work - project preparation in a team,
- apply innovative ideas in practice

Indicative content

1. Inventions, innovations, types of innovations.
2. Innovation strategies.
3. Management of the innovation process as a comprehensive system of knowledge. Innovation management system
4. Effective innovation management in the economy.
5. Sources of financing innovations in the Slovak Republic and the EU.
6. Creating mechanisms to support innovation at national as well as transnational level.
7. Possibilities of cooperation in the field of science and research.
8. Creation and use of outputs of science, research and development.
9. Protection of intellectual property.
10. Commercialization, technology transfer.
11. Government and international support for the innovation process.
12. Creation of innovative projects.

Support literature

Vidová, J. 2015. Investície a inovácie v ekonomike. Ekonóm, Bratislava 2015.
Fagerberg, J. – Movery, D. – Nelson, R. 2005. The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. Oxford university press. Oxford. 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-926455-1

Requirements to complete the course

20% continuous written work, 20% semester work, 60% written exam

Student workload

156 h (participation in seminars 52 h, preparation for seminars 13 h, elaboration of a semester project 13 h, preparation for the final written work 26 h, preparation for the exam 52 h.

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak and English languages

Date of approval: 10.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 03.01.2022