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Course description

This course responds to calls for a new generation of leader skilled in Transformative Innovation to address grand challenges. The field of Transformative Innovation Policy regards grand challenges such as energy and food security, climate change, ageing societies and sustainable economies as requiring long-term transformative change beyond the scope of any one product or process innovation at firm level. Instead, the leaders of the 21st century need to be able to develop innovation strategies across firms and institutions focused on the transformation of whole systems of innovation, production and consumption. To enable this, the course develops two skills in students: 1) external change - how to transform innovation systems and 2) internal change - how to transform themselves to be able to lead such efforts. Students will here learn to integrate their knowledge from other Innovation and Entrepreneurship courses by having to design innovation systems which align individuals, businesses and whole communities in an innovation system. Students will be exposed to literature from fields such as transformative innovation, placemaking, wellbeing and adult developmental psychology. 21st century leaders in transformative innovation are thus distinguished by having skills to work with tools from across these fields.

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