Course content

• Software application innovation
• Architecture development and technology integration
• R&D work
• Technology assessment
• Innovation assessment

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

• The students have gained knowledge in software application innovation methodologies
• The students have gained knowledge in selecting, integrating and evaluating technologies for innovative software applications
• The students have gained knowledge in developing architectures for innovative software applications
• The students have gained knowledge in assessing software innovations.

Skills:

• The students are capable of conducting necessary research into user needs, existing solutions, and relevant technologies and architectural solutions.
• The students are capable of developing innovative software applications.
• The students are capable of critically reviewing the technological strengths and weaknesses of innovative software application solutions.
• The students are capable of critically reviewing software application innovativeness.

General Competence:

• The students are able to contribute to innovative thinking and to innovation processes.
• The student have extended their experience in prioritising needs when integrating projects with competing objectives.

Learning methods and activities

• Project work
• Reflection
• Seminars
• Supervision

Additional information:

• Students are recommended to work in groups of three to five students, but individual projects and groups of other size may also be accepted.

Specific conditions

Course materials

Internet resources will be announced at the beginning of the course.