Training
CEC collaborative training programs focus on ‘Management of Eco Innovation’. You will learn eco-innovation management from inspiration to solution:
- Ecological problems;
- Technical and social innovation strategies;
- Technologies and applications;
- Knowledge translation and management;
- Environmental and intellectual property law;
- Founding and financing a start-up;
- and more...
From listening to seminar speakers to participating in research programs and first application and market replication projects, our members from around the world are immersed in the theory and practice of eco-innovation.
From classroom learning to internship experience you will gain skills in:
- Analysis of the challenges of eco-innovation in different cities, regions, and countries;
- Articulation of the importance of environmental ethics to eco-innovation;
- Understanding determinants of national competitiveness and the contribution of eco-
innovation to competitiveness;
- Application of principles of sustainable development;
- Methods of technological and social foresight analysis;
- Observation and measurement of environmental change;
- Evaluation of innovation systems in energy, transport, construction, and water;
- Analysis of environmental law;
- Analysis of key factors for success in business management for eco-innovation;
- Eco-innovation business plan development;
- Integration of intellectual property management into eco-innovation;
- Identification of finance options for eco-innovation;
- Evaluation of environmental, technical, and financial risk;
- Leadership and project management in research, development and demonstration focused
on eco-innovation.
Employers will see that you are:
Job ready, having conducted eco-innovation projects during work-terms with industry partners, supervised by industry managers and supported by academic advisors and internship clinics reflecting upon and addressing eco-innovation challenges arising in internship projects.
Technology-educated, with up-to-date knowledge of technologies implicated in global ecological challenges, from problem-creating technologies to problem-solving technologies, with additional knowledge of innovation systems generating new technologies ready for eco-innovation applications.
Effective communicator, able to present ideas orally and in writing, in functional international business English.
Structural thinker capable of generalizing effectively from knowledge of particular experiences, and equally capable of applying general categories and concepts to understand new or unfamiliar experiences.
Comprehensively educated regarding the problems and promise of eco-innovation: exposed broadly and deeply to the ecological problems faced by eco-innovators, and the business opportunities presented by those problems.
Our approach to eco-innovation management is highly interdisciplinary, recognizing that eco-innovation is a blend of elements of specific technologies, management techniques, environmental philosophy and movements, sustainable development, and innovation systems. During academic terms you will learn about these areas of eco-innovation throughout six modules of varying length, integrated to create a coherent narrative, beginning first with a focus on the problems of eco-innovation, the range of methods used to face those problems. The second you will turn from problems and methods to the specific technologies available now and in the future to face eco-innovation problems, completing your study with examination of applications of eco-innovation methods and technologies. In the final part, we have taken care to create space for individualized learning to improve your skills or knowledge in specific areas where you have an identified weakness, or simply where you want to improve your strength to become a better eco-innovator following graduation from the program.
Module 1: Eco-innovation and competitiveness in a globalizing economy
Nature of eco-innovation
Eco-innovation and entrepreneurship
Scenarios and forecasting: methods, tools, and measure
National and International regulation of eco-innovation
Module 2: Methods and tools for economic and environmental evaluation
Economic evaluation
Environmental evaluation
Evaluation of risk
Indicators and observation
Module 3: Finance and entrepreneurship
Investment finance
Venture capital
Marketing eco-innovation
Module 4: Social acceptability
Field notes: social acceptability of industry activities
Governance, mediation and the precautionary principle
Inter-cultural management
Module 5: Major scientific challenges and technologies for sustainability
Application of information technologies in eco-innovation
Renewable energy technologies
Advanced detectors
Biotechnologies
Clean and sustainable transport
Sustainable construction
Clean production and by-product treatment
Module 6: Skill Modules
Innovation Project Management
Creativity
Negotiation / Conflict Management
Integration Seminar
Internship Clinic
In addition to the six modules, plus the integration seminar and the internship clinic, you will have the opportunity to participate in:
- Intensive local language courses
- Intensive English courses
- Company site visits illustrating eco-innovation challenges and practice - experimental buildings, labs, demonstration of products.
- Direct contacts and exchanges with start-up firms associated with the CEC Advisory Program as well as with the finance and capital investment actors
- Workshops and seminars organized by local partners
- Innovation Seminar Series in which master students will benefit from visiting speakers' perspectives on innovations in general, and eco-innovations more specifically.
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