GRA 2207 Managing Creativity and Innovation
GRA 2207 Managing Creativity and Innovation
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 sustainable innovation management. The course will deal with two main questions: 1) What characterize processes of creativity and sustainable innovation in organizational settings and 2) what can leaders, professionals, employees, and organizations in general do to facilitate creativity and sustainable innovation processes within and around their organizations.
The students will obtain an in-depth understanding of contemporary research evidence-based knowledge in the integrated fields of creativity and innovation management, and get an overview of the most important topics, concepts, and contributions within this field.
Students will gain proficiency in contextual and situated application of diverse theoretical perspectives to make sense of ambiguous, complex creativity and sustainable innovation processes. Students are expected to use judgment and analytic skills to select appropriate theories to guide analysis, evaluation, and action planning in different organizational contexts. They should know how research in this field may be conducted and see how this knowledge may be applied to real life situations.
The students should be able to explain role of creativity and sustainable innovation in today’s knowledge economy, and justify context-sensitive approaches to designing, leading, and working in organizations to enable creativity and innovation.
- Introduction to creativity and innovation management
- The creative process
- Individual creativity
- Group creativity
- Emotional intelligence
- Organizing for creativity
- Organizational change and sustainable innovation
- Organizational culture and creativity
- Workspaces, network and creative ecosystems
- Leading creativity
- Open innovation
The course is structured as a combination of lectures, discussions, in-class activities (e.g., case studies), group work, and student presentations. It requires substantial amount of preparation by the students and active involvement during class.
The exam for this course has been changed starting academic year 2023/2024. The course now has two exam codes instead of one. It is not possible to retake the old version of the exam. Please note new exam codes in the Exam section of the course description.
It is the student’s own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class.
All courses in the Masters programme will assume that students have fulfilled the admission requirements for the programme. In addition, courses in second, third and/or fourth semester can have specific prerequisites and will assume that students have followed normal study progression. For double degree and exchange students, please note that equivalent courses are accepted.
Disclaimer
Deviations in teaching and exams may occur if external conditions or unforeseen events call for this.
| Assessments |
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Structured test Weight: 70 Grouping: Individual Duration: 2 Hour(s) Comment: Individual structured test Exam code: GRA 22072 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Multimedia production Weight: 30 Grouping: Group (3 - 6) Duration: 6 Week(s) Comment: Submission of video of group work presentation during the lectures Exam code: GRA 22073 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
|---|---|---|
Teaching | 36 Hour(s) | |
Prepare for teaching | 20 Hour(s) | |
Student's own work with learning resources | 40 Hour(s) | |
Group work / Assignments | 20 Hour(s) | |
Examination | 44 Hour(s) |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.