Experiencing Innovation Led by Students

JIRÁSEK, Michal and Eva ŠVANDOVÁ. Experiencing Innovation Led by Students. In Dan Remenyi. 7th Teaching Innovation & Entrepreneurship Excellence Awards 2021. Reading: Academic Conferences International, 2021, p. 95-106. ISBN 978-1-914587-11-5.

Basic information

• Original name: Experiencing Innovation Led by Students
• Authors: JIRÁSEK, Michal and Eva ŠVANDOVÁ.
• Edition: Reading, 7th Teaching Innovation & Entrepreneurship Excellence Awards 2021, p. 95-106, 12 pp. 2021.
• Publisher: Academic Conferences International

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 50204 Business and management
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• Organization unit: Faculty of Economics and Administration
• ISBN: 978-1-914587-11-5
• Keywords in English: innovation management; course; student-led

Abstract

The initiative represents a newly created course Innovation Management. The course belongs to the core curriculum of the Master-level program Business Economics and Management. During its first iteration covered in this paper, the course was attended by 85 students. Due to the pandemic restrictions, teaching was delivered fully online. Despite the limitations, we stuck to the original plan of replacing the classical teacher-led model with the learner-led model. The course aimed to give students a comprehensive insight into innovations on two levels: individual/team and organizational. In the first case, students worked on a team project that simulated an innovation process in which students developed and tested a board game. In the second case, we let students understand strategic decisionmaking through case studies. From the feedback we continuously collected, we know that students very much appreciated the demanding yet very beneficial format of the course.