VU-INN361F Sustainable Business Model Innovation A
Credits (ECTS):5
Course responsible:Matthew Patrick James Lynch
Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås
Teaching language:Norsk
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Course frequency:Annually
Nominal workload:125 hours
Teaching and exam period:The course starts at the end of the autumn parallel and has teaching and assessment in the spring parallel.
About this course
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In this experiential continuing education course, we will employ business model innovation to deal with the sustainability challenges of the future. During the course, we will focus on how business model innovation and digitalization can contribute to new solutions that can make a difference and create a profitable business. The course participants will work in teams and use creative innovation methodology as a mindset and approach to develop new solutions that can affect how we work with innovation in the future. The course provides participants with a practical toolbox with techniques and methods that can aid in devloping a deep understanding of alternative solutions to sustainability challenges. Instead of going for the first and most obvious solution, the methodology encourages empathic insight into users 'and stakeholders' perspectives, as well as designing problem definitions around complex problems, experimentation and iterations for testing and learning.
The course will use current literature on sustainability as a foundation, sustainable business models and the innovation methodology design thinking.
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Knowledge:
- Sustainable business models and sustainable innovation
- Principles for sustainable business model innovation
- Digitization as driver for sustainable innovation
- User-centric innovation methodology
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- Develop skills in sustainable innovation methodology
- Practice creative problem solving to develop new solutions of value for your own business
- Train ability to assess how digitization can be implemented as part of a sustainable solution
- Use own experience and knowledge in facing new issues around sustainability
Competence:
- Develop your own problem-solving ability, self-efficacy and creativity in new areas
- Develop the ability to experiment with complex problems and reflect on one's own actions.
- Develop general collaboration skills, communication and presentation skills
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