FME3554 Navigating Innovation: Contextualizing Research Value 1.5 credits

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.

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

Admitted to PhD studies

• 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.

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

Terrence Brown

• 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.