BIN 3012 Industrial Development, Innovation and Skills Development

BIN 3012 Industrial Development, Innovation and Skills Development

Course code: 
BIN 3012
Department: 
Law and Governance
Credits: 
7.5
Course coordinator: 
Frode Solberg
Course name in Norwegian: 
Næringsutvikling, innovasjon og kompetanseutvikling
Product category: 
Executive
Portfolio: 
Executive - Special Course
Semester: 
2022 Spring
Active status: 
Active
Level of study: 
Bachelor
Teaching language: 
Norwegian
Course type: 
One semester
Introduction

The course has been developed for SIVA SF and is a development programme for leaders and specialists in SIVAs national business park programme. In their new ten-year business park programme SIVA wishes to provide goal-oriented and topical skills upgrading for the 45 business parks that are involved in this national programme.
In the future the business parks will be active participants and influential in local and regional business development, with a special focus on assistance and processes aimed at SMEs in terms of innovation and skills development .

Learning outcomes - Knowledge

The aim of the programme is to develop and strengthen competence in strategic business development, innovation and knowledge-based development in existing and new enterprises.
Furthermore, the aim is to strengthen the participants’ skills in communication and process-based development skills for daily interaction with industry and trade.
This interaction will take place as a committed process that contributes to strengthening the individual’s competence as an important and preferred specialist for local businesses in terms of contributing to improved growth and development.
Another central element in the programme will be contributing to new competence within industrial development with a focus on developing effective and efficient local innovation systems and a knowledge/competence-based perspective as a strategic competitive advantage.

The overall learning outcome is to provide a foundation for a process that contributes to a long-term development for the participants, their company and SIVA’s organization.

 

  • The participants shall understand the main correlations within industrial development  innovation competence development, innovative processes in SMEs and management of development processes in smaller enterprises.
  • The participants shall understand how they as specialists initiate, participate and supervise enterprises in strategic innovative and competence processes in local industry.
  • The participants shall understand the importance of their role in developing local industry.

 

Learning outcomes - Skills
  • The participants shall gain an insight into how they can participate actively in strategic, innovative and knowledge-based processes in companies, which also includes taking an active part in the relevant processes.
  • The participants shall be given a basis for developing methods and tools for such processes.
     
General Competence
  • The programme shall develop the participants respect for the complexity of developing and managing SMEs. The programme shall develop the participants respect for the importance of the added value that the SMEs represent.
  • The programme shall teach the participants respect for the importance of continuous competence development in enterprises.
Course content
  • Business development
  • Innovation and development of innovative processes in SMEs
  • Competence development in SMEs
  • Strategic management in SMEs
  • Process management and management of development processes in enterprises.
Teaching and learning activities

The programme is carried out over 6 whole days totalling approx. 45 hours. The teaching will consist of three 2-day modules, each module is a combination of lectures and team work. The participants will be divided into groups and these groups will be given a total of 4 hours of process supervision related to tasks and cases from the participants’ work challenges in the periods between the study modules.  

 

In all BI Executive courses and programs, there is a mutual requirement for the student and the course responsible regarding the involvement of the student's experience in the planning and implementation of courses, modules and programmes. This means that the student has the right and duty to get involved with their own knowledge and practice relevance, through the active sharing of their relevant experience and knowledge.
 

Software tools
No specified computer-based tools are required.
Additional information

Hovedtema og rammeverk for programmet
1. Samling med hovedfokus på næringsutvikling – innovasjon og kompetanseutvikling

· Introduksjon til, og rammeverk for programmet
· Kunnskaps – næringsutvikling og innovasjonspolitikk
· Hva – hvorfor og hvordan
· Et nasjonalt – regionalt og lokalt perspektiv
· Næringsstrukturen som utgangspunkt for næringsutvikling
· Eksisterende virksomheter og utvikling av nye virksomheter
· Innovasjon og utviking av regionale / lokale innovasjonssystemer
· Kompetanse som konkurransefortrinn i lokalt / regionalt næringsliv
· Strategisk kompetanseutvikling i virksomheter
· Utfordringer i ledelse – og utvikling av virksomheter
· Markedsføring og markedskommunikasjon i en digitalisert og verden

2. Samling med hovedfokus på innovasjon og ledelse i SMB og utvikling av innovasjonsprosesser i SMB – bedrifter
· SMB’enes betydning for verdiskapingen og deres særlige utfordringer
· Innovasjonsprosesser i et nytt og helhetlig perspektiv
· Innovasjon i teknologi og produkter
· Tjenesteinnovasjon - serviceinnovasjoner
· Innovasjon i forretningsmodellen
· Ledelse og utvikling av SMB i et strategisk og innovasjonsmessig perspektiv
· Fra industrielt fokus til tjeneste – og kunnskapsfokus som konkurransefortrinn
· Fremtidens krav til ledelse og ledelsesutfordringene i virksomheter fremover
· Styret som ledelses – og utviklingsressurs

3. Samling med hovedfokus på prosessledelse og ledelse av utviklingsprosesser i virksomheter
· Metoder, teknikker og verktøy for gjennomføring av eksterne prosesser i virksomheter
· Bedriftsutvikling
· Begrepsavklaring og rammeverk for iverksettelse og gjennomføring av bedriftsutviklingsprosesser
· Entreprenørskap og intraprenørskap
· Identifisering og utvikling av ideer og gründere
· Entreprenørskaps - / intraprenørskapsprosessen
· Lederutvikling i SMB
· Hva, hvorfor og hvordan

Qualifications

Higher Education Entrance Qualification

Covid-19
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there may be deviations in teaching and learning activities as well as exams, compared with what is described in this course description.

Required prerequisite knowledge

None

Assessments
Assessments
Exam category: 
Submission
Form of assessment: 
Written submission
Weight: 
100
Grouping: 
Group/Individual (1 - 3)
Duration: 
1 Semester(s)
Comment: 
The examination is a 20-page term paper which shall describe a concrete development process for an SME within the discipline’s framework. The term paper is to be written in groups of up to 3 persons.
The approach to the problem and the theoretical part shall be presented after half the programme has been completed and will be given a pass/fail grade.
Exam code: 
BIN 30121
Grading scale: 
ECTS
Resit: 
Examination when next scheduled course
Type of Assessment: 
Ordinary examination
Total weight: 
100
Student workload
ActivityDurationComment
Teaching
45 Hour(s)
Student's own work with learning resources
80 Hour(s)
Examination
75 Hour(s)
Sum workload: 
200

A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 7,5 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 200 hours.