Masterstudium Visual Computing - Fakultät für Informatik, TU Wien

D. Innovation Supplementary Curriculum
Qualication prole
The supplementary master curriculum Innovation oers an advanced, scientic, and
methodologically sound complementary education that is targeted towards sustainable
knowledge and has a strong focus on practice. The graduates will be competent and
internationally competitive in the following elds of informatics and business informatics:
• Entrepreneurship and company foundation
• Intrapreneurship and innovation management
• University engagement and research transfer
According to professional requirements, the innovation curriculum conveys qualications
on top of a regular informatics or business informatics master study with respect
to the following categories.
Functional and methodological knowledge
following knowledge:
• Innovation management
• Business model and plan
• Legal and economical aspects of innovation
• Financial aspects of innovation
• Social and organisational aspects of innovation
The innovation curriculum conveys the
Cognitive and practical skills By investigating innovation methods practically and
theoretically, the following skills are acquired:
• Company foundation and expansion
• Innovation of processes, products, and services in existing enterprises
• Innovation transfer and university-company cooperation
Social, innovation and creative competence The focus of the innovation curriculum
is on fostering creativity and high innovation potentials, in particular:
• Methods and techniques to foster creativity
• Interaction with highly creative people and teams
• Handling of conicts and crises
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