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Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Knowledge for Theory and Practice 2,5 ECTS
Provider: Faculty of Science

Activity no.: 5238-23-03-31 
Enrollment deadline: 02/01/2023
Date and time30.01.2023, at: 09:00 - 03.02.2023, at: 16:00
Regular seats25
Activity Prices:
  - Deltager/Participant from SCIENCE3,000.00 kr.
  - Deltager/Participant Others5,250.00 kr.
ECTS credits2.50
Contact personCharlotte Bukdahl Jacobsen    E-mail address: cja@ifro.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserTeis Hansen    E-mail address: teis.hansen@ifro.ku.dk
Written languageEnglish
Teaching languageEnglish
Semester/BlockSpring
Block note.
Exam formActive participation during the campus course
Exam formParticipation in entire course
Course workload
Course workload categoryHours
Preparation40.00
Lectures15.00
Seminar15.00
Sum70.00
Content
As an early career researcher, you are increasingly confronted with new challenges and opportunities that go beyond the core of your scientific work to include issues of innovation and entrepreneurship. At some point in your career, most of you will collaborate with the public or private sectors, and some of you may commercialize your own ideas. This PhD course aims at increasing your knowledge, skills, and competences to be better prepared for this reality by providing you theories, frameworks and tools related to innovation and entrepreneurship. The course will focus on linking theory and practice, building on insights from inside and outside of academia, including policymakers and research and innovation funders.

During this course, you will be presented with various aspects linking innovation to scientific research. We will build on the determinants of new technologies, products, and processes, and discuss general perspectives on how external collaborations enable innovation and entrepreneurship. Through gaining knowledge about these aspects, you will receive an understanding of the opportunities and barriers to innovation. On this basis, you will learn how these innovation and entrepreneurship principles apply to scientific research. Furthermore, this will help you in your future work as scientists, whether you collaborate with firms, work with R&D management, or start your own business. Overall, the course will cover issues such as the sources of innovation, value creation and value capture, open innovation, collaboration and partnerships, university-industry relations, responsible research and innovation, innovation policy, and open science.

The course will be conducted in corporation with entrepreneurial academics, external consultants, policymakers, and research and innovation funders, thereby blending theory with insights from practice. We will run daily activities with a focus on applied discussions of the theories introduced. We also give you the opportunity to get to know supporting organizations, and talk to peers that have pursued entrepreneurial careers. During the course, you will also discuss the potential for establishing collaborations with public and private partners, commercializing your own research, potential challenges, and how you would go about dealing with them. In this way, you will also have a chance to reflect on the knowledge gained in the course by linking it to your personal situation and career plans.

ECTS
2.5

Learning outcome
On completion of the course, the participant is expected to have gained basic knowledge and practical insights for managing innovation projects and pursuing entrepreneurial careers at the university as well as in the private sector.

This includes knowledge of:
- The concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as related concepts such as open innovation and academic entrepreneurship
- Sources and determinants of innovation in firms and innovation systems
- Science-based innovation and entrepreneurship, partnerships, and collaboration
- Innovation policy
- Entrepreneurship as a viable career opportunity

And skills/insights into:
- Ability to analyze important determinants for innovation in any industry
- Search and problem-solving strategies involving open innovation

Leading to enhanced competences in:
- Leveraging knowledge across organizational boundaries
- Managing collaborative innovation projects in university/private sector settings
- Finding and creating entrepreneurial opportunities
- Communicating about science and innovation
- Understanding possibilities for securing funding from innovation funders

Literature
Literature: The required reading will be announced prior to the course

Teaching and learning methods
Lectures, seminars, guest lectures, workshops

Lecturers
Lecturers
Nico Hjortsø, Gergana Romanova, Teis Hansen, Marcel Bogers, Ghita Lauritzen, Sunny Xu and external lecturers

Workload
2.5 version
Preparation 40
Lectures 15
Seminars 15
Paper 0
Total 70

Remarks
ECTS
2.5.

Activity Prices
- Participant from SCIENCE 3.000,00 kr.
- Other participant 5.250,00 kr.

Contact person
Charlotte Bukdahl Jacobsen
cja@ifro.ku.dk

Course Organisers
Teis Hansen
Teis.hansen@ifro.ku.dk
Gergana Romanova
gpr@ifro.ku.dk

Teaching period
January 30th – February 3rd.

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