Innovation Graduate Certificates

The objective for any business is to sustain and grow their activities.

The world is changing at a fast pace. It is not only about meeting the increasing demand to adapt to change, but to propose new ways of approaching combinations of transformations. Successful companies are not the ones following a change process, but those that generate and lead change through innovation.

These Innovation Certificates designed by The Institute for Knowledge and Innovation Management in alignment with our MBI program, aims to prepare the innovation champions to support companies, your company.

Innovation Strategy

This certificate aims to train your managers to better plan the advancement of your organization in its technology, products / services and to ensure the future performance of your company against competitors. Innovative management and new operational procedures developed in high-tech businesses are acquired through real project-based learning.

Innovation Management

This certificate aims to improve the ability of your managers to adopt the practices best adapted to optimize the transformation of ideas into concrete valuable realizations. They will learn through real projects how to invest in creating new opportunities to generate customer value.

Innovative Marketing

This certificate aims to give your managers new methods to help them optimize the product design or packaging, the product placement, promotion or pricing. They will be trained to better involve your customers in the products/services development of your company.

Technology Driven Innovation

This certificate aims to initiate your manager to new innovation concepts and techniques that allow better combination of existing knowledge and corporate technologies.

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Innovation Strategy

Innovation Strategy level 1

Innovation is strategic to organizations survival and growth. Envisioning and planning for an uncertain future is a difficult task that requires openness and flexibility in building and managing the company's innovation capability.

During this certificate, you will learn about innovation strategic analysis (what could we do?), strategic selection (what are we doing to do, and why?) and strategic implementation (how are we going to make it happen?). The knowledge and skills gained through level 1 will enable you to drive innovation in your company to make an immediate and lasting impact.

Business Innovation

(Preliminary module) This module is concerned with strategic innovation management for corporate competitive advantage. It provides students with the knowledge to understand, and the skills to manage innovation at the operational and strategic levels. Specifically, it integrates the management of market, organizational and technological change to enhance competitiveness of the firm. Students will acquire a critical understanding of innovation at the operational and strategic levels in the strategic innovation management context and obtain a critical understanding of the contexts, processes, structure, and capabilities in managing innovation in a fast changing globalised business environment.

Global Market Research

provides knowledge on the qualitative and quantitative methodologies used in global market research, which provides a foundation to understand markets and consumers. A variety of qualitative and quantitative data collection and data analysis methods for descriptive, causal, and exploratory research designs will be discussed and compared, alongside the utilization of these techniques in market research. The research design process (problem identification, proposal writing) will also be taught. During this module students will be presented with the concepts of marketing in all types of organizations and various techniques and approaches used to study the market, competitors, competitive intelligence, as well as emerging weak signals.

New Product Development

introduces process including services as well as techniques to manage innovation teams composed of members from different departments such as marketing, engineering, R&D, sales, etc. This module examines the strategies, processes, methods and techniques used for new product development. The first part of the module focuses on new product development strategies. The second part considers techniques and processes for managing different stages of product development, from idea generation to market testing.

Strategic Innovation Management

covers various aspects of the innovation implementation process will be presented: strategy, change, implementation, motivation and sustainability. The module aims to provide an understanding of key innovation and entrepreneurship management concepts and principles, in particular, how to manage product innovation and development at operational and strategic levels and enhancing competitiveness through innovation. The processes involved in the development of new products and services, including the management of resources and key activities. Key internal and external factors influencing and facilitating innovation within organizations will be examined.

Innovation Management Project

Every participant will be given the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills that they have acquired through the 4 certificate modules to a real innovation challenge/project of their organization. This practical experience will be source of valuable learning that will validate and enrich their strategic innovation expertise.

Innovation Strategy level 2

This certificate builds on the knowledge and skills gained during Level 1. Develop strategic innovation and build an agile company that uses emerging technologies to transform itself. Nowadays, innovation happens in ecosystems where knowledge is shared among various parties. Learn how to protect knowledge and to create value from it by developing an open innovation strategy. The knowledge and skills gained through level 2 will equip you with the tools to become the next generation strategic leaders.

Emerging Technology Trends

This module covers the technical, market and application trends for Emerging technology. In this module, students will learn about the latest emerging technologies as well as technology forecast (broad technologies, not only information technology based). It will focus on understanding how technologies evolve, how their utilization impact current product and services and behaviors, and the potential pitfalls as well as benefits of adopting a new technology.

IP Management & Legal Strategies For innovation

Protecting intellectual assets has become a key success factor for organizations in the knowledge based economy. This module provides you with the knowledge and tools for managing intellectual property (IP), and how best to deploy and appropriate these to create value from the perspective of both private and public sector organizations. More specifically, you will gain an understanding of IP strategies and approaches in multinational corporations, small and medium sized enterprises as well as universities and research institutes. You will learn about patents and copyrights as instruments to protect IP as well as develop an understanding of less formal, alternative approaches.

Knowledge Based Systems

This module describes and explains the recent developments in the field of Information Technology that open up new vistas in computer aided management decision making. This module will cover the role of various technologies that can enable and support innovation: collaborative systems, data mining and data warehousing, content management techniques, co-creation tools, simulation (3D), and group sense making.

Choice of Elective:

Global Project Management
Market-Centered Innovation

Innovation Management Project

Every participant will be given the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills that they have acquired through the 4 certificate modules to a real innovation challenge/project of their organization. This practical experience will be source of valuable learning that will validate and enrich their strategic innovation expertise.

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Innovation Certificates
8 Innovation Graduate Certificates to develop the Innovation Champions of your company!

It will no longer be the only responsibility of the marketing or R&D departments but the responsibility of all stakeholders, including your clients and competitors.

With the Innovation Certificates support your managers to:
- Identify and generate new ideas and opportunities as well as develop innovation
- Integrate theories and practices to strengthen the innovation capabilities of your organization
- Be instrumental in the development and launch of new products or services
- Manage innovative organization
- Facilitate innovation and the changes required for organizations to become innovation centric
Vision

To ensure managers flexibility/adaptability and their innovation management capabilities progress by aligning the content of education with the fast evolving business needs through the development of a learning by doing pedagogical approach.

Mission

To train the 21st century manager by providing employees the necessary knowledge and skills required to adapt to the current complex and fast evolving corporate environment.

Values

To dedicate our organizational and pedagogical efforts towards delivering creative thinking, innovative resourcefulness, curiosity, open mindedness, critical thinking, interdisciplinary and experiential learning capabilities.

Each Certificate is composed of 4 courses + 1 individual project related to one of your concrete business innovation challenge.

Each course represents 42 hours of teaching activities (28 hours face to face and 14 hours online (at your own pace).

By successfully completing each course, participants will earn 3 graduate academic credits (12 for the full Level 1 certificate) that can later be transferred toward the completion of a Master in Business Innovation (MBI). For each Level 2 certificate, 15 graduate academic credits will be earned.

After having completed level 1, participants can decide to complete the level 2 or to enroll into the Master in Business Innovation (MBI) by transferring the earned graduate academic credits.

Innovative Pedagogy

Within our MBI Program & Certificates, the PBL (Project-Based Learning) approach is used as a mean of facilitating critical thinking, enhancing communication, developing curiosity / creativity and, as such, favors inter-personal exchanges. This pedagogic innovation relies upon complex tasks, based on challenging questions or problems, that involve managers in design, problem-solving, decision making, or investigative activities.

The PBL curriculum focuses on knowledge and skills development through concrete applications in project management.

Highlights:
- Courses are offered on Saturdays (1/2 day)
- Each course last 2 months
- The cost of each certificate is 100,000 THB
- 12 graduate academic credits will be earned for level 1 certificates and 15 for level 2 certificates
Admission Requirements

For the Innovation Certificates:
- Have proficient command of English language skills.
- Hold a Bachelor's Degree or its equivalent, in any field from local or overseas educational institutions as recognized by the Ministry of Education.
For the MBI program:
- Have proficient command of English language skills, equivalent to a TOEFL score of 520 on the PBT, 190 on the CBT, 68 on the IBT, or an IELTS with a score of 6.0. (TOEFL/IELTS results are valid for 2 years)
- Hold a Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent)
- Any applicant who has not obtained the required score will be required to pass an English Professional Test from Bangkok University.
To follow a level 2 certificate courses, the level 1 must be previously completed.

Applications may be submitted online at anytime.
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