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 vacancy in Innovation Management

Innovation Management studies how organisations bring innovations to life successfully. A successful innovation 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, standardisation, collaborative innovation, and innovation strategies.

As a PhD candidate in our section, you can choose to join one or more of the projects described on the vacancy page or elaborate your own project. Supervisors can vary per paper that you are working on.

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