Innovation Management

Innovation Management (IM) involves all the actions needed to generate innovative ideas and turn them into attractive new products, services, and business models. Today’s business credo mandates more innovations, and those innovations become substantially more complex, multi-dimensional and risky. At RSM we study the latest developments in innovation and we investigate how to manage them successfully in practice by linking the latest management theories to business practice.

The Innovation Management section has a mission: We create and disseminate knowledge on innovation management to help organizations become a force for positive change. Our world-class faculty educates future innovation leaders and actively engages with organizations to foster the change we preach.

Dr Dirk Deichmann

The IM team creates training modules that help executives develop their innovation skills and apply them to business models and new business ideas. Or if you are interested in our highly ranked and prestigious specialized Master in Innovation Management; see which programmes we offer.

PhD Position in Innovation Management

Successful innovation management involves all actions needed to generate creative ideas and to turn these into attractive new products, services, and business models. The Innovation Management group at RSM is a team composed of several ambitious international faculty whose research focuses on creativity, idea management, leadership in innovation, diversity and inclusion, AI, standardization, collaborative innovation, and innovation strategies. We also execute large research projects in collaboration with leading organizations on, for instance, horticulture innovation and in the creative industries. Our research is often empirical and applies both quantitative and qualitative methods. As a PhD candidate in our section, you can design your own PhD project. The themes described below serve as inspiration and reflect the expertise of the department. Supervisors can vary per paper that you are working on.

For general questions regarding the doctoral program in Innovation Management, please reach out to Kathrin Borner or Eugene Pyun.

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