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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module, students will have the ability to:
- LO1: Students understand the key capabilities and practices of highly creative individuals and can draw personal and managerial conclusions from this knowledge.
- LO2: Students understand the role of social-network ties, positions and morphologies in individual and team creativity and can draw personal and managerial conclusions from this knowledge.
- LO3: Students are capable of acquiring scientific knowledge from primary sources, by summarizing articles, determining their key messages and critically evaluating them.
- LO4: Students understand creativity and innovation in organizational contexts with a particular focus on their relevance, antecedents and consequences, and (limited) manageability.
- LO5: Students understand the necessity of and challenges in constraining creativity and innovation as means to achieving efficiency and mitigating risk. Moreover, they can list, compare and appraise state-of-the-art innovation management tools for achieving strategic alignment efficiency and mitigating risk.
- LO6: Students understand the key principles of successfully managing and leading creative individuals.
- LO7: Students understand the importance of as well as the major approaches to managing open innovation and innovation eco-systems.
- LO8: Students can collaborate in teams to apply heuristic models to real life cases of creativity and innovation in organizations. In particular, in so doing, they manage to identify key problems, examine their root causes, and design potential solutions.
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