Master of Science in

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• Master of Science in
• Innovation Management

Professor Ed Nijssen Program Director
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Schedule

• 1330 Introduction by Industria
• 1350 Meet and greet
• 1410 Program, specialisations, options,
• thesis, etc
• 1430 Course market

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Credit system

• European Credit Transfer System
• Based on student estimated workload
• 1 cp 28 hrs of workload
• Most courses 5 cp
• 30 cp in one semester
• typically 6 courses per semester

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Schedule

• 2 semesters
• 2 periods per semester
• 8 weeks classes per period
• 2 weeks exams per period
• Interim period

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Realizing succesful innovations
Source Henry Chesbrough (2003)
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Commercializing Innovations
Find first customer
Entrepreneurial or new venturing Team
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Innovation Management studies

• It requires understanding of different aspects of
  the innovation problem
• Process Project management, including the
  decisions involved
• Markets/industries and their technological
  developments
• Strategy development at the concern and business
  unit level

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IM final qualifications

• Academic knowledge of design, human and
  organizational behavior, and performance of
  innovation processes
• Skills to analyse and (re)design business
  processes to make firms more innovative
• Act in a multidisciplinary context
• Apply in academia, industry and consulting context

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Program structure
Master Thesis
Specialisation Courses
Thesis Preparation
International Term
Core Courses
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IM Core Courses

• New Product Development
• Marketing Innovation
• Project process management
• Human Aspects of Product Development
• Philosophy of Management Science
• Research design, data collection and analysis
• Design sciene methodology
• System Dynamics

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Innovation Management

• Program characteristics
• All classes conducted in English
• Core courses 8 x 5 40 ECTS
• Electives 40 ECTS
• 3 suggested sets of electives
• Master Thesis
• Preparation (10 ECTS), Thesis work (30
  ECTS)
• www.tue.nl/masterprograms/im

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Three suggested sets of electives

• New Product Development Management
• Knowledge Processes Management
• Human Performance in Innovative Organizations
• Strategy Technology management
• Product Life Cycle Management
• Service Engineering Marketing
• Open Innovation
• Strategic Sourcing Supply Management
• Strategy Technology Managament
• Innovation Networks
• Innovation Intellectual property
• Governing Innovation
• E-Business Architectures Systems
• Technology Commercialization Entrepreneurship
• Technology Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial Finance
• Service Engineering Marketing
• Selling New Products
• Innovation Intellectual Property

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Courses

• Interactive lectures
• Learning by reflection and application
• Master Thesis
• Related to research of the department and its
  researchers
• Theory-driven
• Multidisciplinary
• Elsevier (2009) Eindhoven best of technical
  universities and Eindhoven Master programs in
  Industrial Engineering best in the country

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Other courses

• Several other electives inside and outside the
  school (check website)
• Accounting and Entrepreneurial finance courses
  are highly recommended
• For instance the Brabants Center of
  Entrepreneurship will launch several
  entreprenship courses here and also at Tilburg
  University

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Link to the Job Market
Core courses
Job market
Electives
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Professional perspectives

• Innovation process related jobs
• - RD/New Product Development
• Staff member in RD analysing and solving
  specific technical and organisational problems
  process improvement
• Projectleader, innovation manager, director of
  technologyresponsible for managing and
  coordinating innovation projects
• Strategy, alliances, intellectual property
• Marketing side of innovation
• Other options include
• Main stream business engineering
• Phd

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Thesis topics

• Examples of thesis subjects
• Strategic Alliances
• network relationships between a research lab and
  technology suppliers
• Entrepreneurship
• success or failures of technopreneurs
• Knowledge Management
• managing knowledge in a product development lab
• Marketing
• service performance of products in the market
• How to motivate sales to sell new products?
• New Product Development
• possibilities to reduce lead time in innovation
  projects
• Supplier development
• NPD in the relationship between a hi-tech company
  and three key suppliers

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Mentor system

• Select capacity group at last one year before
  start of the Msc Thesis Project (at the end of
  the first semester!)
• Allocation through application give preference
  for mentor
• Virtual market open during quarters II and IV
• Cannot match earlier
• Must match before end otherwise mentor will be
  assigned
• Role of mentor
• assistance with composition of study program
• advise on study planning international semester
• assistance with selection and preparation of
  thesis topic and thesis proposal (and company if
  needed)
• supervision of thesis project

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Options within the program

• Semester abroad
• for students with standard program (no
  deficiencies)
• Pre-doctoral certificate
• for students with objective to start PhD
• extra modules at PhD level, provide exemptions in
  PhD program
• only after admission by admission board
• with thesis project conducted on theoretical
  topic

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More information

• Programme www.tue.nl/masterprograms/im
• Schedules, exams http//owinfo.tue.nl
• Course related http//studyweb.tue.nl
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• Department and program related information
  http//www.tm.tue.nl/education

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Questions?

• Welcome on board!
• We hope you will enjoy your time in the master
  program and at TU/e
• If, you want to engage in discussions and
  improving the program please contact Industria's
  Education coordinator