Managing Knowledge Work, Creativity and Innovation

Introduction

Managing creativity and innovation is a course that will provide an overview of contemporary research and practice based knowledge of the most important topics, concepts, and contributions within creativity and innovation management. The course will deal with three main questions: 1) What characterize processes of creativity and innovation in organizational settings and 2) what can leaders, professionals, employees, and organizations in general do to facilitate learning, creativity and innovation processes within and around their organizations.

Course content

Learning to manage creativity and innovation

Processes of creativity and innovation

Creative industries, innovative cities and regions

Individual creativity

Creative teams

Co-creation, experimentation and design thinking

Leaders’ role in enabling innovation

Organization design for innovation

Open Innovation

Business model innovation

Innovation for sustainability transformations