Summer School Innovation Management
Innovation – Creativity – Performance
Join our Summer School Innovation Management: The digital transformation has fundamentally fueled the acceleration of innovation cycles: What’s new today is already old tomorrow.
In order to stay in the game, corporations are investing in innovation management, sometimes in the form of freelance experts, sometimes by
even making an innovation manager part of their team.
As volatile and accidental innovation and creativity might seem, researchers have found strategies and factors to boost them, be it on an
individual, a team or a strategic level. Innovation management is the combination of all these strategies.
We want you to get to know those factors and apply them into your everyday life making this a big step on your future career ladder.
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RUB Summer School Innovation Management
Study – Connect – Enjoy
What is waiting for you?
Learn everything about innovation management, strategies and teams. Why is innovation so important and which factors in a company drive innovation? Take part in the process and develp your own case study project within a team, that you will present at the end of the course.
Along with the focus on innovation management we will offer you multiple opportunities to get to know the area, meet students from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and to learn soemthing about German culture and history.
Activities include:
- Start-Up: Meet the Founders
- Get to know an innovative company and their strategy
- Summer Barbecues
- A visit to the Botanical Gardens
- Campus Tour
Program of the RUB Summer School Innovation Management
- Week 1
- Innovation Management -Individual Level
The Concept of Innovation
Creativity and its Potential
Creativity Techniques & Motivation
Innovation Management
Teams & Projects
Team Dynamics & Innovation
Is Diversity the key?
Performance Enhancement
Project Management
- Week 2
- Innovation Management – Organizational Level
Strategy
Developing Innovation Strategies
Coordinating
Cooperations
Open Innovation vs. Closed Innovation
StartUp Event: Meet the Founder!
Case Study: Work on your Project
Presentation of your Projects
Certificates & Goodbye
Your academic director of the Summer School is Professor Dr. Matthias Weiß (More information here)
This RUB Summer School is especially interesting for undergraduates of civil engineering, economics & sales, but a broad range of students will benefit from a topic this relevant.
Your personal benefits of this Summer School include:
- Know-How in one of the most relevant topics in economics and engineering right now
- Networking with the talents of the future
- Experience abroad
- Intercultural Training
- Meeting the Experts on Innovation
Commitment to Quality

“The Summer School is really perfect for me. People here are very nice! Thank you! Danke!”
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“The trips were amazing, I enjoyed the visit to Cologne Cathedral the most! The architecture is so impressive!”
“The professors were very interesting and so nice. What impressed my most was the visit to the steel-plant! Gigantic!”
“Before coming to Germany, I had never seen such beautiful industrial sites. As a major in mechanical engineering, I was impressed by the greatness of the industry, while standing on the tower above the industrial park.”
“I spent a great time with lovely professors, teachers & classmates.”
“I really loved the Learning Factory, because you can experience the process od industrial production basically with your own hands.”