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Project management and innovations - course description

General information
Course name Project management and innovations
Course ID 06.9-WM-ZiIP-ANG-D-05_20
Faculty Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Field of study Management and Production Engineering
Education profile academic
Level of studies Second-cycle studies leading to MSc degree
Beginning semester winter term 2023/2024
Course information
Semester 1
ECTS credits to win 3
Course type obligatory
Teaching language english
Author of syllabus
  • dr inż. Wojciech Babirecki
Classes forms
The class form Hours per semester (full-time) Hours per week (full-time) Hours per semester (part-time) Hours per week (part-time) Form of assignment
Project 15 1 - - Credit with grade
Lecture 15 1 - - Credit with grade

Aim of the course

Acquisition of skills and competences in project management, in particular in  innovative project management. Acquisition of knowledge on the nature, role and place of innovation in the processes of development. Understanding of the economic content of innovation and incentive programs for the growth of creativity. Understanding national and European pro-innovation infrastructure, programs and strategies. 

Prerequisites

Microekonomics, Marketing Essentials 

Scope

Content of lectures: Project management in a general approach. Schedule and budget of a project . Managing the project team. Directions of development of the concept of project management and management through projects. Innovations. The economic content of innovation. Innovation, creativity and competitiveness. Innovation processes in enterprises. Man and organization in the innovation process - management culture, virtual organizations.The policy and strategy of business development management in terms of products and services, processes, infrastructure, environment, etc. The role of information technology in innovation. Formation and funding for innovative projects. Regional innovation strategies. The activities of regional institutions in terms of stimulating innovation processes. EU programs for innovation. Innovation strategies of Polish companies - an analysis based on case studies.

Project: Regional innovation strategies. The activities of regional institutions in terms of stimulating innovation processes. EU programs for innovation. Innovation strategies of Polish companies - an analysis based on case studies.

Teaching methods

Conventional lecture.

Project – individual work, group work, based on literature and the lecture notes

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description Outcome symbols Methods of verification The class form

Assignment conditions

Lecture: graded credit

The assessment is issued based on a written test covering the verification of the knowledge of basic problems.

Project: graded credit

The assessment is determined on the basis of the component evaluating skills related to the implementation of  project tasks, the prepared report and a component for the student's "defence" of the report.

Recommended reading

  1. Aaron J. Shenhar, Toward a typological theory of project management, Elsevier, 1996.
  2. Garold D. Oberlender, Project management for Engineering and construction. McGraw Hill International edition, 2018.

Further reading

  1. Project Management Innovations, A Quarterly Publication of the Project Management Institute’s New Product Development Specific Interest Group

Notes


Modified by dr inż. Tomasz Belica (last modification: 12-04-2023 23:05)