Doctoral education in Innovation Sciences
Innovation Sciences is a postgraduate area that is permeated by creative ideas and smart solutions. The research includes social and behavioural sciences, technology and natural sciences with a common focus on innovations, their creation, emergence, commercialisation and establishment on the market.
The doctoral education in Innovation Sciences is characterised by a high degree of empirical proximity, participation in international affairs and close collaboration in various research projects where doctoral students and senior researchers work together throughout the doctoral education. Because of this, a multidisciplinary dialogue is a natural part of everyday life for researchers and doctoral students in the field.
Researchers in Innovation Sciences use different perspectives, theoretical starting points, models and methods in the development of scientific knowledge. The responsibility for the doctoral education in Innovation Sciences at Halmstad University lies with the School of Business, Innovation and Sustainability.
Research at the School of Business, Innovation and Sustainability
A multidisciplinary dialogue is a natural part of everyday life for researchers and doctoral students in the field.
The field of Innovation Sciences
Innovation Sciences at Halmstad University focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship, learning, corporate governance, management, financing, business development, marketing and political governance. The area includes studies of how internal and external conditions affect innovation processes and how ideas become successful on the market.
Since the 1960s, the scientific study of innovations, i.e. the development, distribution and use of new technologies, products, processes, services or organisational solutions, has developed into an increasingly independent and academically accepted field of research and teaching.
The area of innovation sciences’ emergence can be described in terms of economic development and changes in business and society at large. New scientific knowledge, technological developments and related new products, services, business models and systems create a need to bridge and integrate traditional academic disciplines and develop new academic areas of knowledge.
Four key aspects of doctoral education
- Considers the dynamics of innovation activities and opportunities for ideas to be able to assert themselves on the market or among the users.
- Lets empirical phenomena guide the formulation of research questions, research, and methods in the implementation of the research to contribute to real impact.
- Builds upon and further develops the successful education programs in the field of innovation which are already given at Halmstad University.
- Bonds to the research in the area that is well established at the University and thus enable the development of more integrated understanding of innovation, product, service and business development for industry, academia and society more broadly.
- Is characterised by international collaboration and diversity.
Support for business and society
Through knowledge and understanding of the processes and dynamics of innovations, innovation science can support business and society with the future development of innovations and sustainable growth. This is done through the development of new products and services, new technology, new business models, the emergence of new knowledge-intensive industries and, not least, through the renewal of societal functions.
Innovation sciences is a research and teaching area in which various fields work together around the common phenomenon of innovation. It is an applied research field where proximity to practice and empirical phenomena is of central importance and forms the basis for research and knowledge development. Innovations are seen in a broad perspective, both as new products, processes and services, and as organisational change.
PhD students in Innovation Sciences
- Hanna Daneshmir
- Elin Daun
- Foday Drammeh
- Deniz Dönmez
- Alireza Esmaeilzadeh
- Max Halbwachs
- Lars Hamberg
- Lisa Klug
- Håkan Knutsson
- Alina Linden
- Ingela Mauritzon
- Vladyslav Mikhnych
- Senad Osmanovic
- Manoella Antonieta Ramos da Silva
- Aline Rocha
- Luis Fernando Irgang dos Santos
- Barbara Saturnino dos Santos
- Hira Shahid
- May Shayboun
- Luiza Stein da Silva
- Jackson Wanjiku
- Rupert Waters
- Charlotta Winkler
- Ghazal Zalkat
- Zahra Zamani
