Innovation Management Group

Mads Clausen InstituteUniversity of Southern Denmark

Sønderborg

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People

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Teaching

• Responsible for Innovation & Business program• Some courses:

– Strategic Innovation Management– Innovation in Value Networks– Understanding Innovation– Scientific Methods– Business of Design– Participatory Innovation– Semester Project– Market Intelligence– Information Technology– Bachelor & Master thesis supervision

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Research Philosophies

Positivism Social ConstructivismRealism

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Research Philosophies

(SPIRE)

Positivism Social Constructivism

Realism

Anthropologists

DesignersInnovation ManagementResearcher

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The aim of the Innovation Management Group is to understand what influences organizations’ capability to innovate and profit from innovation.

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• The IM Group explores …– the interactions between different stakeholders in

a value network during innovation development• Socio-technical context of innovation, e.g. role of

institutions in (participatory) innovation• Sources of innovation, e.g. users as innovators• Value co-creation in innovation networks, e.g.

knowledge co-creation• The interaction between internal and external

stakeholders, e.g. open innovation, inter-organizational collaboration

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Current Research Interests: Max Rolfstam

• Public procurement (innovation policy)

• Role of institutions

• User-driven innovation management

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Current Research Interests:Marcel Bogers

• Learning-by-doing and process innovation

• Functional areas’ openness for innovation

• External sources of knowledge and innovation

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Current Research Interests: Alex da Mota Pedrosa

• Customer integration during new service development

• Value co-creation in supply chains

• Absorptive capacity in innovation development

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Current Research Interests:Henrik Sproedt

• Social relationships in innovation management

• Innovation management in SMEs

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Current Research Interests:Vlad Wulff

• Global account management

• Cooperation between strategic partners (consumer wars, tacit knowledge)

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Fields

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