Innovation Management

Profession
An innovation manager is a professional who focuses on starting up and supervising innovation projects within a company or organization. An innovation manager plays a crucial role in identifying new ideas, developing strategies and implementing changes.

What makes this training so interesting?
- Classroom and/or online education (Blended Learning) and exam training;
- This unit gives an exemption within MBO4 courses;
- Good balance between theory and practice: direct application;
- Motivated fellow students;
- Teachers from practice;
- Afternoon and evening lectures: part of working time and own time;
- Start and end of lectures outside rush hours;
- College building very easily accessible by public transport;
- Trained at Kronenburgh? Then you make the difference!

In short, all the advantages of private education: a solid education.

In this unit, you will explore the characteristics of successful intrapreneurs and investigate the strategies employed by enterprises to develop and promote intrapreneurial skills in their own workforce. In doing so innovation such as new product developments would be encouraged, improvements in existing products could be made and changes to existing workplace practices could be introduced to meet the needs of the enterprise and its customers. You will examine the stages involved in the innovation process and its contribution to improving the performance of an enterprise and the achievement of its strategic objectives.
This unit will help you achieve a good understanding of what is required to be a successful entrepreneur or intrapreneur, and this will help you when making career choices. It will also support you when undertaking more advanced or specialist business-related courses when progressing to higher education.

In this unit you will:
A Explore the business environment in which an enterprise operates,
B Investigate how intrapreneurship can be developed internally to contribute to the
success of an enterprise,
C Explore the role of innovation in promoting change in an enterprise,
D Examine the stages of innovation and their impact on an enterprise.

There are no entry requirements, but the best prior education is Marketing Basics.

We provide training at MBO4+ / HAVO4-5 level.

You can participate in the Kronenburgh exams. You will receive a Kronenburgh certificate for the exams passed. These certificates provide an exemption within the vocational training Entrepreneur Creative Business KBC4 and the part-time MBO4 Entrepreneur Creative Business.

The programme Ondernemer Creative Business KBC4.
The programme MBO4 Ondernemer Creative Business.

The unit Startend Ondernemer MKB

The programme Bachelor Business and Management

Lecture times
13.30-20.50: 3 tutorials in the afternoon and 3 tutorials in the evening. A 10-minute break after each seminar. After the first 3 tutorials there is a big break and many students take a walk through the historic center of The Hague.

College days: on Tuesdays.

Duration of training: 3 lecture days and exam moment.

Start: Tuesday February 11, 2025.

Classroom and/or online: Blended Learning
We provide the training in class in our building in The Hague. It is also possible to follow the lecture days online via Zoom.

Link to the lecture schedule: 2024-2025.

Time investment
Keep in mind that every half-day lecture requires at least one half-day preparation / homework; this is separate from the study time in preparation for the exam.

Participation in all lecture days is important. Practice shows that absence stands in the way of successful completion of a module and study delay is incurred and additional training costs are incurred.

Contact hours
3 lecture days of 6 lecture hours per lecture day + 1.5 hours for exams comes to a total of 19.5 contact hours.

Tuition and literature

Literature
Invoicing takes place via Indexbooks.nl. It is possible that the bibliography is adjusted and therefore prices change or that additional material costs are charged.

Laptop
You bring your own laptop with the OfficeSuite (Word, PowerPoint and Excel).

Nice bonus
- No registration fees;
- No VAT on tuition fees;
- No arrangement costs;
- No repro rights costs.

Does the government pay?
An employer can set off the training costs of employees for tax purposes.