Chair of Innovation Management at the University of St.Gallen
We offer a wide variety of courses in the BSc-, MSc-, and PhD programs of the HSG as well as courses on the executive education level and customized inhouse-seminars. Our main areas of research are: Open Innovation, R&D Globalization, Intellectual Property Management, Business Model Innovation and Leading for Innovation. The course contents are based on the latest insights from research of the chair and other international experts of the field. For our teaching we employ modern and interactive teaching methods. We offer a variety of possible final thesis for the bachelor as well as for the master level. If you are interested in one of these vacant thesis, please contact the respective contact person.
Business model and business model innovation (Innovation Management)
Contact: Michaela Csik
- Business model innovation in the B2B sector
- Organizational anchoring of business models and business model innovations
- Interplay between new product development and business model innovation
- First-mover advantages of successful business model innovators
- Successful follower strategies for business model innovation
Creating a financial market for patents in Europe Contact: Martin Bader
Gobal R&D (Strategic Innovation Management) Contact: Bastian Widenmayer
- Supplier integration in the innovation process – search and selection of suppliers
- Determination of integration levels
- Interfaces to open innovation methods in a global R&D context
- Management of know-how transfer
- Research on success factors in global R&D
- Organizational design within global R&D
- Management of R&D networks
- Marketing of innovations within and outside the company
- Lean innovation management
- Product architecture and platform management
Innovation Management in the Energy Sector (Innovation Management) Contact: Peter Hürzeler
The energy sector is currently subject to considerable technological and structural changes, attracting an increasing number of innovative companies. Concrete innovation management approaches for the specific conditions of the energy sector have been lacking so far, especially with regard to SME. This results in e.g. the following practice-oriented topics:
IP strategy & management for developing products with the potential to reduce the risks of smoking-related diseases – The case of Philip Morris International (IP Management) Contact: Nicole Ziegler
International Research and Development (Innovation Management) Contact: Marcus M. Keupp
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