Innovation Management

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Long-Term Programmes / Executive Master Classes 

Executive Master Classes are long-term, international, part-time management courses that offer an in-depth analysis of the body of knowledge present within one specific management field. These courses are aimed at people with relevant work experience and a good understanding of this field.

Short-Term Programmes & Conferences

Short programmes are programmes focused on specific topics, lasting 1 to 15 days.

  • Corporate Innovation Management

    During the Corporate Innovation Management programme participants acquire the necessary knowledge and hands-on tools to connect innovation management to their company’s strategic corporate and business context, to design and implement innovation and corporate venturing processes, and to extract value from the competitive use of intellectual property.
    Duration: 12 + 1 days
    Language: English

  • Creativity Talks

    Inspiring sessions on entrepreneurial creativity and innovation - Monthly updates on the creative knowledge economy, for entrepreneurs, managers and knowledge workers with and interest in innovation and entrepreneurial creativity.
    Free participation.
    Duration: 8 talks, from 7 - 9 pm.
    Language: Dutch and English

  • Entrepreneurial Innovation

    Following an extended version of our proven Entrepreneurial Innovation Boot Camp approach, participants leave the Entrepreneurial Innovation programme with the skills necessary to defend an innovative, possibly technology-based, idea before a critical investor audience – skills that should be mastered by entrepreneurs and corporate intrapreneurs alike.
    Duration: 13 + 1 days
    Language: English

  • Product Management

    Developing the knowledge to cope with a number of important issues concerning how to successfully bring new products and services to the market is essential in the strategic growth of each modern organisation.
    Duration:     4 days
    Language: Dutch/English

  • Strategic IP Management

    In this programme participants learn how to proper use and leverage IP assets. Intellectual Property (IP) assets are important to many companies and should support their competitive strategy. Hence, proper use and leverage of IP assets can create a product or service technology edge, increase revenue, reduce costs, extend product lines and anticipate market and technology shifts.
    Duration: 4 days
    Language: English

  • Strategising for Innovation

    This unique program prepares executives with the new mindset  for innovation management which leverages their business ecosystem of industrial partners, university and government policy experts. Participants will benefit from the reflective academic context of Cambridge and Leuven contrasted with their surrounding high-tech ecosystems.  Learning to shape and play this triple helix ecosystem will be a prerequisite for innovation to boost corporate growth and renewal.
    Duration: 6 days
    Language: English

  • Vlerick Innovation Network

    The Vlerick Innovation Network brings together the Innovation Management community. The network gathers four times a year to discuss a central topic in innovation management.
    Duration: 4 evening sessions
    Language: English

Company-Specific Programmes

In the case of a company-specific programme, the School will develop, on request, a training programme that is tailored to the company’s individual requirements. Possible topics in Innovation Management include:

  • Raising awareness of innovation: this programme is especially suitable for participants and companies where innovation and intrapreneurship are not self-evident. It helps to create awareness and develop the basic knowledge about innovation management throughout the organisation.
  • Designing and managing your organisation for innovative performance: this programme focusses on designing and implementing innovation strategies. When a company’s innovative interest is aroused, this dynamism must also be managed and made an integral part of the organisation.
  • Turning your innovative ideas into businesses: the focus in these programmes is on the step-by-step transformation of an idea into a marketable product or service, and a critical analysis of the commercial feasibility of plans. Entrepreunial Innovation Boot Camps offer a good solution to turn innovative ideas into concrete and mature business propositions. An Entrepreneurial Innovation Boot Camp usually consists of three two-day residential workshops, each three weeks apart, during which participants are coached in looking at their ideas as any investor would. The programme uses a mixture of readily applicable theory, tailored to the company’s context, coaching and group sessions. During the Boot Camp participants fine-tune their ideas into solid business opportunity proposals to be presented to a jury of the company’s senior management and Vlerick staff. The ultimate reward: the go-ahead to incubate the proposed venture.