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72404 Product Innovation
Danish title: Produktinnovation

Type: Å, Language: D
Credit points: 5 point
Offered by: Department of Control and Engineering Design (IKS)
Prerequisite: 72221. 72601 (eller andet PMP)
Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester
Examination: Evaluation of report(s) (13 point scale )
Contact person: Mogens Myrup Andreasen, IKS, Building 358, Tel. +45 4525 6258
Aim: Create an understanding of the activities of innovation and technical innovations. Create an understanding for establishing business and to compete, based upon innovation. Know some innovation techniques. Able to create innovative technical solutions based upon innovation techniques. Able to use personal creativity.
Contents: The course treats the following dimensions of innovation:

- Technology, research, development, management of innovation.
- The company's technology platform, its innovation and development of competencies.
- Systematic innovation, systematic search, design methodology, Altschuller-method.
- Patents, licenses, copyright, inventions, product development.
- Knowledge systems, WWW, solution catalogues.
- Evaluation methods, Cooper's method, business, quality, feasibility.
- Organising systematical, goal oriented innovation.
- Industrial design, MMI-design, multidisciplinary innovation.
- Creativity, creativity training.
- Entrepreneurship, establishing a company's product assortment.

The exercise part contains the creation of innovation ideas, developed for evaluation and patents.