GRA 2207 Managing Creativity and Innovation

GRA 2207 Managing Creativity and Innovation

Course code: 
GRA 2207
Department: 
Leadership and Organizational Behaviour
Credits: 
6
Course coordinator: 
Federica De Molli
Course name in Norwegian: 
Managing Creativity and Innovation
Product category: 
Master
Portfolio: 
MSc in Business - Leadership and Change
Semester: 
2024 Autumn
Active status: 
Active
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching language: 
English
Course type: 
One semester
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 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.

Learning outcomes - Knowledge

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.

Learning outcomes - Skills

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.

General Competence

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.

Course content
  • 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
Teaching and learning activities

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.

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

It is the student’s own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class.

Qualifications

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
Assessments
Exam category: 
School Exam
Form of assessment: 
Structured Test
Exam/hand-in semester: 
First Semester
Weight: 
40
Grouping: 
Individual
Support materials: 
  • Bilingual dictionary
Duration: 
2 Hour(s)
Exam code: 
GRA 22074
Grading scale: 
ECTS
Resit: 
Examination when next scheduled course
Exam category: 
Submission
Form of assessment: 
Submission other than PDF
Exam/hand-in semester: 
First Semester
Weight: 
60
Grouping: 
Group (3 - 6)
Duration: 
6 Week(s)
Comment: 
Submission of video of group work
Exam code: 
GRA 22075
Grading scale: 
ECTS
Resit: 
Examination when next scheduled course
Type of Assessment: 
Ordinary examination
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
Total weight: 
100
Student workload
ActivityDurationComment
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)
Sum workload: 
160

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.