Innovation Month (5 cr)
Code: LTP7129-3001
General information
Enrollment
01.04.2020 - 30.04.2020
Timing
01.09.2020 - 30.10.2020
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
RDI portion
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Campus
Wärtsilä Campus Karjalankatu 3
Teaching languages
- English
Seats
10 - 30
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in International Business
Teachers
- Heikki Immonen
- Iouri Kotorov
Teacher in charge
Iouri Kotorov
Groups
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TOP20_21Other Complimentary Studies Group Semester 2020-2021
Objective
Student:
- Understands the process product development based on customer information
- Can collect information about customer needs, customer criteria and competitors via interviews and surveys
- Can analyse customer and competitor data for market positioning and innovation potential
- Can use creativity technicues for product innovation and can critically compare and evaluate different business ideas.
- Can recognize uncertainties about a business idea and design business experiments to clear these uncertainties
Content
This course is highly intensive series of workshops during which students act as teams and apply different techiniques to understand their target customer needs and criteria. Lessons learned during the workshops are implemented between the workshops. New product concepts are developed based on gathered and analysed customer information. Further, a simple business experiment is design and implemented based on uncertainty analysis.Final presentations are given to a group of visiting experts.
Evaluation scale
H-5