Course responsible: Hyekyung Imottesjo

For universities and organizations with interest in societal impact from innovations and R&D. Minimum 10 participants.

Training Plan:

(i) 10 Training sessions (about 2 hr each session).
(ii) Additional sessions about Transfer of Knowledge (ToK).
(iii) Own Societal Impact assignment.
The training program is 6 months.

10 ToK sessions per training program. At each session there is a focus topic. Topic is discussed at second half of session. Participants are expected to be active.

Societal Impact assignment by own choice (specific for your benefit).

The training program is 6 months.

Course fee per participant: 320 EUR. Certificate by ICM Research Institute.

Details of Training Plan:

The training consists of 10 transfer of knowledge topics. These serve as exercises to understand the general principle of innovation and business for societal impact.

Each participant will have their specific Societal Impact assignment. This is taken from your own interest. It will be formulated during 5 individual meetings. You will describe this and build a societal scenario ina an area of your interest. Each participant will get support and feedback by the lecturer and experts. It will act to build competence in relevant societal impact understanding.

Dr Hyekyung Imottesjo is an architect, urban designer and a researcher within the field of built environment. She specializes in urban planning systems based on complex adaptive system’s theory and innovative visualisation and digitalisation. She has received her PhD from Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden and has been involved in urban collaborative designing platform development as well as developing innovation ecosystems for societal impact.