Master degree program
Innovation Management

Innovation Management

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Economic Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

Upon completion of this educational program, it is expected that the undergraduate will be able to:
ON1 to publish scientific articles, reports presenting the results of research into the practice of innovative entrepreneurship, applied research and engineering, experimental and developmental works aimed at creating new technologies, providing new quality products, services, new quality educational technologies for future specialists , to ensure the competitiveness of enterprises and the economy;
ON2 to ensure the promotion of green growth principles through the cooperation of innovative companies in the public and private sectors, international organizations in the direction of developing a green economy, transferring green technologies, introducing green standards, principles of environmental responsibility, educating ecological culture, psychology of healthy lifestyle, meeting environmental requirements legislation for sustainable economic growth;
ON3 to ensure the operation of technology parks, business incubators, commercialization offices, through the application of legal regulation of innovative entrepreneurship, forms of state support of innovations, organization of protection of rights appraisal of intellectual property, patenting, commercialization, financing of innovative projects, establishing links between scientific and educational departments with production and venture companies for the development of innovative entrepreneurship, the implementation of state innovation policy;
ON4 to ensure the functioning of an innovative company through the application of methods, tools of modern innovation management, defining the company's innovative business model, strategic positioning of the company in the market, applying cost management methods, emotional intelligence management and personnel management psychology, quality, risks, providing income for creating customer value, appropriating parts of it in the form of a firm’s profit;
ON5 to ensure the promotion of innovation to the market through the use of relationship marketing, value co-creation, horizontal and vertical methods of promoting innovation, the method of partnership and cooperation, technology transfer, developing a market launch strategy, positioning innovation in the market; determine the quality of the product and service for the preparation of a successful entry of the product into the innovation market;
ON6 to commercialize intellectual property by evaluating and ensuring the protection of intellectual property on the basis of international patent law, developing a patent and licensing policy of the company, evaluating the commercial value of new products and technologies at an early stage of the project of selling licenses, patents, creating a joint venture, for making profit in accordance with innovative business model of the company;
ON7 to create startups, through the organization, pre-seed stage of the project; justify the idea by studying the target audience;organization of the sowing stage, forming a team, business concept; develop a business plan, making a technical task, a prototype, analyzing cases; apply the concept of a minimally viable product, testing methods, alpha version, beta version, open beta testing to go to launch a startup;
ON8 to launch startups through project promotion, settling legal aspects, registering a brand, attracting investors, creating a scheme of cooperation between developers and investors to finance startups as part of government innovation development programs, venture financing by business angels, venture funds, developing an effective business model for venture business to achieve a start-up state generating sustainable income;
ON9 to ensure the implementation of the stage of growth and expansion of a startup by working out business processes and strengthening market positions; organize the stage of exit from a startup by reselling the company, placing the brand’s shares on the stock exchange, searching for a strategic investor with «long» money, organizing an IPO to realize the successful commercialization of innovation;
ON10 to ensure the introduction of organizational and managerial innovations as a targeted change in the management system, management process technologies, analysis of cases and the introduction of new personnel management methods, the development of competencies, ensuring the psychological readiness of staff to participate in the implementation of an organizational change program, the introduction of quality management principles, international quality standards for increase the competitiveness of the enterprise;
ON11 to ensure the introduction of product innovations through the improvement of services, mastering fundamentally new services by adding new functions and characteristics, ensure the introduction of process innovations by adopting technologically new or significantly improved production methods, highlight specific risks, assess their impact on the development and innovation processes to improve the competitiveness of enterprises;
ON12 to show creativity, innovative thinking in the process of finding ideas for innovation, creating start-ups and implementing start-ups when choosing an innovative business model and organizing innovative entrepreneurship, developing a system of personnel motivation for an innovative company, identifying and neutralizing risks, organizing an educational process of training specialists for ensuring the effectiveness of innovative entrepreneurship;

Program passport

Speciality Name
Innovation Management
Speciality Code
7M04109
Faculty
High School of Economics and Business

disciplines

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic systemic understanding of philosophy as a special form of cognition of the world, its main sections, problems and methods of their study in the context of future professional activity. The training course forms the theoretical and methodological basis of research work.

Innovation Management
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to form the competencies necessary to ensure the achievement of profitability from innovative activities, the ability to apply methods of innovative management. The discipline is aimed at: studying the concepts, functions of innovative management, features of organizational forms of innovative activities, methods of managing innovative activities, personnel, risks in innovative companies, methods of development, organization and management of innovative projects.

Innovation Marketing
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to analyze key parameters of the innovation market and develop promotion strategies and positioning of innovation in the market for the successful introduction of innovation to the market. The discipline is aimed at: studying the essence, forms and methods of marketing innovation management, technology for conducting marketing research using marketing mix tools, methods for developing and implementing marketing programs

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline to form the ability to apply practical skills in the organization and planning of scientific research. The discipline studies: forms and methods of planning, organization and design of scientific articles and dissertations; forms of summarizing the results of scientific research in presentations, speeches, projects, articles.

Pedagogy of Higher Education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to teach in universities and colleges based on knowledge of higher school didactics, theory of education and management of education, analysis and self-assessment of teaching activities. The training course is aimed at studying the trends in the development of education and the Bologna process. The course will help you master teaching and curatorial skills, various strategies and methods of teaching and education.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.

Quality Management of Innovations Companies
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course: to develop managerial competencies in the field of project quality management, improvement of processes in the development of innovative products and projects. The course is aimed at: studying the theoretical foundations of quality management of innovative projects as a key factor in the competitiveness of a company, quality management methods in project activities, and project quality management tools.

Sustainable Development and Innovation
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of the discipline: to develop abilities to substantiate and implement innovative thinking and innovation as the most effective path to sustainable development. The discipline is aimed at: studying the concept of “sustainable development” based on an analysis of the experience of innovation management in foreign countries, the main barriers to sustainable development, the impact of innovation on the sustainable development of the economy

Technology of innovative entrepreneurship and Commercialization of innovations.
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of the discipline: to form the ability to organize innovative entrepreneurship, applying the principles of operation, strategies, methods of managing types of innovative companies, using a system of transfer of innovative technologies and commercialization of innovations. The discipline is aimed at: studying the processes of managing start-up projects, technologies for creating, launching and implementing startups, developing the company's patent and licensing policy

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

“Green” economy and sustainable development of society
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of the discipline: to develop abilities for implementation government objectives in the field of green economy and eco-innovation, as well as greening the energy sector and sustainable energy development. The discipline is aimed at: studying the essence and forms of implementation of the green economy, which improves people's well-being, ensures social justice and at the same time significantly reduces the risks to the environment and its degradation with the help of technologies and innovations that increase economic efficiency and environmental efficiency, reduce the negative impact on the environment.

Business culture and cross-cultural management
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of the discipline: develop the ability to manage communication risks and effectively exchange information in a cross-cultural environment. The discipline is aimed at: studying: the concepts of business culture and cross-cultural management, principles and methods of personnel management, representing various national business cultures; ways solving management problems based on modern concepts of cross-cultural management

Emotional intelligence and communication management
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability, by analyzing the emotional intelligence of employees, to determine the effectiveness of employees, their resistance to stress, leadership and ability to work in a team. The discipline is aimed at: studying empathy, methods for preventing emotional burnout, methods of communication management for building interpersonal relationships in the process of exchanging information.

Innovation policy of the state
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to develop the ability to determine and justify directions for improving the mechanism for implementing the state's innovation policy. The discipline is aimed at learning the institutional and legal aspects of the implementation of the state's innovation policy, the possibility of increasing the state's innovative potential and forming sustainable competitive advantages, and the use of methods and means of state regulation of innovation activities.

Intellectual property management
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to manage intellectual property to extract the maximum socio-economic effect from the results of innovative activities and develop the innovative potential of the domestic economy. The discipline is aimed at: studying the essence of the concept of intellectual property; methods of intellectual property management, analysis of the patent landscape and patent purity of a product (technology), analysis and justification of measures to improve the mechanism for transferring intellectual property to subjects of innovative activity

Management of innovative development and changes
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The objective of the course: development of skills for managing innovative development and changes in a company in conditions of high variability and uncertainty of the external environment.The following will be studied: goals, strategies, models, methods for managing the innovative development of an organization, the relationship between the concepts of change and development, reactive and proactive approaches to change management, the mechanism for digital transformation of an organization.

Management of Technological Innovation
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline To develop the ability to apply knowledge about the purpose and objectives of designing technological processes, the basic provisions and principles of technological preparation of production, to organize the development and implementation of technologically new and significantly technologically improved products into production. The discipline is aimed at studying the stages of designing a technological project; technical assignment for design, determining the structure and content of technological documentation, methods for assessing the economic possibilities of implementing the proposed technological innovations

Management of Venture Business
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of mastering the discipline: in-depth familiarization with the principles and methods of managing the activities of venture funds and private equity funds. Studying the discipline will allow you to master approaches to managing venture funds, become familiar with the practices of raising capital in venture capital direct investment funds, the principles, methods and modern practices of analyzing and selecting potential investment targets, structuring investment transactions, and managing portfolio companies

Modern architecture of an innovative business environment
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop the ability to analyze the architecture of the innovative business environment and its impact on the effectiveness of innovation activities. The discipline is aimed at: studying the essence and necessity of developing an innovative environment as a condition for the effectiveness of innovative entrepreneurship, principles and methods of managing the development of the national innovation system, innovation ecosystem, assessing the innovative potential for the development of environmental responsibility, analyzing the dynamics of the growth of “green” technologies.

Product Innovation Management
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of mastering the discipline is to study modern approaches to organizing processes for the development and implementation of product innovations, strategies and methods for commercializing new and improved products and methods for their sale in sales markets. Studying the discipline will allow you to determine the degree of effectiveness of product innovations, ensure their preparation and implementation, and adapt new or improved products depending on changes in consumer preferences.

Risk management of innovation Activity
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: development of risk management skills, justification of the choice of risk neutralization methods. Studying the discipline will allow you to master the concept of risks and their classification, principles and methods of risk management in an innovative company, the mechanism of their neutralization in the activities of innovative companies, in venture business, in start-up projects

Sustainable Development and Innovation
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The following will be studied: the goals and principles of sustainable development, the concept of an innovative economy, the "green economy", the circular economy, the principle of environmental responsibility of innovative enterprises, the criteria for "green" innovation, the requirements of "green" standards.

Оrganizational innovations management
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of mastering the discipline: studying innovative approaches to corporate management and organizational processes with an emphasis on new theories and methods of management. Studying the discipline will allow you to determine methods and tools for improving the results, efficiency, and quality indicators of the company by stimulating creative ideas among employees of the organization, by applying advanced methods of managing the organization

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2021-2024 years