Teaching
Teaching
Our teaching concept
The professorship of Innovation Management and Sustainability sees itself as an active interface between students, businesses, civil society and academia. We use challenge-based learning as our central teaching/learning approach.
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Our teaching modules
PIN offers teaching modules from the consecutive programme offered by School II as well as modules developed specifically for part-time study at the Centre for Lifelong Learning (C3L). In terms of content, they focus on sustainability, innovation management and entrepreneurship, combining theoretical principles with practical skills for sustainable innovation processes.
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Our teaching concept
The professorship of Innovation Management and Sustainability sees itself as an active interface between students, businesses, civil society and academia.
The centre of its activity is the joint development and initiation of sustainability-oriented innovations that address real social challenges and have a concrete impact.
Especially in times of great future challenges, we want to show the potential that lies in broadening and democratising innovation processes and how this can contribute to accelerating transformation processes and achieving sustainability goals.
Challenge-based learning as a teaching/learning approach
Challenge-based learning (CBL) is an innovative teaching/learning approach that is particularly suitable for sustainability-oriented innovation projects. The approach is based on experiential learning and involves the close integration of teaching, research and practice. Students do not work on fictional case studies, but on real-world challenges that are brought in by partners from the field and often have a high social benefit.
The focus is on
collaboration between students and companies on an equal footing
co-innovation along real innovation and start-up processes
the combination of economic viability and sustainability impact
In this way, students become change agents, while companies gain new perspectives, solutions and talent.
Typical features of our CBL projects:
complex problems with open-ended solutions
Clear connection to a real-world challenge
Processing in interdisciplinary teams
Close involvement of partners from the field, stakeholders and experts
Goal: implementable solutions with real-world application
Effect of challenge-based learning
Innovation impact
Companies benefit from fresh knowledge, new perspectives and concrete progress in the innovation or start-up process.
Educational impact
Students develop future skills and entrepreneurial competencies and learn to take responsibility for complex transformation tasks.
Transfer impact
CBL strengthens sustainable partnerships, increases the visibility of the transfer and enables new formats of knowledge transfer at the interface between teaching and practice.
Our modules at a glance
Sustainable Venturing
In the "Sustainable Venturing" module, Master's students work with industry partners to develop innovative and sustainability-oriented solutions to real-world challenges and problems.
Innovation Management
The "Innovation Management" module highlights the opportunities and conditions for success for technical and social innovations and provides a basic understanding of the possibilities and limitations of managing innovation processes.
Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship - C3L
The Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship module focuses on the emergence, planning and management of technical and social innovations. It covers key tasks of entrepreneurship, innovation processes and intrapreneurship as an approach to promoting innovation-oriented action in organisations.
Sustainability through innovation and entrepreneurship – C3L
This module focuses on the entrepreneurial significance of sustainability. Innovation and entrepreneurship are treated as possible solutions to social challenges, but their consequences are also discussed. The module covers the sustainable design of innovation processes and their management in start-ups and SMEs.