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FME3554 Navigating Innovation: Contextualizing Research Value 1.5 credits

This course provides an overview of innovation and entrepreneurial practices, methodologies and tools across disciplinary arenas including, for example, technology, engineering, life sciences, social sciences and the arts.
Designed for early-stage PhD students, this course highlights innovative research assets using transdisciplinary lenses. Beyond business, it emphasizes diverse value creation for society and academia.

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Application

For course offering

Spring 2024 Start 18 Mar 2024 programme students

Application code

61079

Headings with content from the Course syllabus FME3554 (Spring 2024–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

The course provides an overview of innovation and entrepreneurial practices, methodologies and tools across disciplinary arenas including, for example, technology, engineering, life sciences, social sciences and the arts.
Designed for early-stage PhD students, this course highlights innovative research assets using transdisciplinary lenses. Beyond business, it emphasizes diverse value creation for society and academia. Engaging with peers across disciplines and interviewing thought leaders in their respective fields we explore methods of assessing, synthesizing and communicating key insights while building a knowledge platform around entrepreneurship and innovation literacy. 

Intended learning outcomes

After having completed the course, the student should be able to:

  1. Analyze different forms of innovation and entrepreneurship with a focus on value creation 
  2. Identify and define innovation potential assets in respective research and transdisciplinary research context
  3. Synthesize, assess and communicate learnings and research findings in an interactive format

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

Admitted to PhD studies

Recommended prerequisites

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Equipment

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Literature

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Examination and completion

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Grading scale

P, F

Examination

  • INL1 - Assignment, 1.5 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination

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Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination

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Examiner

Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

Main field of study

This course does not belong to any Main field of study.

Education cycle

Third cycle

Add-on studies

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Contact

Marianne Castrén, marianne.castren@sses.se

Postgraduate course

Postgraduate courses at ITM/Industrial Economics and Management