Innovation Processes in Business and Marketing

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Teaching results

By completing the course, students will expand their knowledge and gain new knowledge in the field of creating innovative product processes, supply and distribution systems, business and marketing innovations. They will acquire the latest progressive methods of measuring the innovative performance of the company (BSC, Audit, Competitiveness of the company, Evaluation of innovation potential, SMEs, Supply-customer chain methodology, Methodology of innovation characteristics according to OECD, etc.), possibilities and effects of their practical use and creation more exact models. Such models are based on interconnection resp. integration of corporate development strategies - innovation process - integrated knowledge management according to ISO standards, in order to obtain synergistic effects from the management of the innovation process and increase innovation performance (corporate and society-wide)
Graduates of the course will be able to independently design, formulate and implement appropriate elements of the innovation climate according to organizational structures and the use of synergies in teamwork, the company increases its innovation performance, improves market position, time costs for constantly finding new employees. They can critically analyze, evaluate and synthesize existing and new knowledge about the development of markets and their entities, the ability to draw conclusions and strategic decisions based on scientific analysis.
By completing the course, students will acquire competencies, expand and acquire more accurate knowledge of the theory and methodology of innovation processes in the company and learn the necessary skills and competencies for the management of innovation creation and implementation in general and for specific areas of the industry. The course defines the objects and form of innovation in the company, analyzes the starting points and the course of innovation processes. Completion of the course will enable knowledge of individual theories, methodologies, approaches, methods and models of forecasting, planning, implementation and management, ie comprehensive management of innovations in the intentions of international and European strategic documents and programs, especially EUROPE 2020 and HORIZON 2020.

Indicative content

Innovation development process. Process quality. The impact of marketing on innovation strategy. Innovative marketing at the level of the marketing mix. Impact of product life cycle on marketing and innovation. Innovative company performance and its measurement. Methodology for processing innovation characteristics according to the OECD. Access to innovations in information and communication technologies. Innovation process in relation to innovation marketing and retro-innovation marketing.

Support literature

1. DANESHJO, N. (2021). Riadenie inovačných procesov v organizácii. Košice: Vydavateľstvo PETIT s. r. o.
2. DANESHJO, N., MALEGA, P. (2022). Product and Process Innovation in Enterprises. Germany: RAM-Verlag.
3. GOMBÁR, M., KMEC, J., DOBROVIČ, J., SEMAN, R. (2018). Manažérske praktiky navrhovania produkčných procesov a výrobkov. Prešovská univerzita v Prešove, Fakulta manažmentu.

Syllabus

1. Theory and methodology of innovation processes, types, types and classification of innovations in the company. Marketing preparation of innovations in the company. 2. Material innovations, energy, product, technological, complex, system, environmental innovations. 3. Organizational innovations and innovative projects. Innovation process in relation to innovation marketing. 4. Science, research, innovation. Comprehensive innovation strategy. Risk management in innovation. 5. Management of the innovation process in the company. Innovation management in the company. Measurement and evaluation of knowledge level and innovation activity according to the EU methodology. 6. Operational Program Research and Innovation (OP R&D). Breakdown of innovations from a procedural point of view. 7. The need for ISO quality certification for innovation. Business operation model and innovation management. 8. Realization of results of scientific-technological development. Institutional forms of support for the implementation of innovations in the Slovak Republic and the EU.

Requirements to complete the course

40% semester work
60% written exam

Student workload

Workload: 260 hours
Attendance at lectures: 16 hours
Self-study: 80 hours
Elaboration of a semester project: 60 hours
Preparation for the exam: 100 hours

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak, English

Date of approval: 02.04.2023

Date of the latest change: 17.10.2023