innovation management for major social and environmental challenges - ed.1

DIPARTIMENTO DI INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE

The course provides an in-depth exploration of the principles and tools needed to integrate sustainability, ethics, and co-creation models into innovation projects. It offers strategic methodologies to design transformative processes capable of generating shared value and assessing high social-impact research initiatives, promoting transparency, equity, and inclusiveness. The first module examines the evolution of innovation paradigms, increasingly aimed at addressing social and environmental challenges, and the role of institutions in guiding and supporting these processes. The second module focuses on the value of collective participation and data sharing as drivers of open and democratic science. The third explores ethics and social justice, highlighting how innovation can reduce inequalities and foster inclusion. The final module is devoted to measuring social impact, presenting methods and tools to assess the long-term benefits of initiatives.

The program aims to: train a new generation of professionals capable of interpreting socio-economic and environmental megatrends and seizing the resulting innovation opportunities; transfer skills to guide processes and outcomes of innovation activities in complex contexts marked by increasingly significant social and environmental challenges; promote understanding and adoption of open Research & Innovation (R&I) models based on multi-stakeholder collaborations, able to steer technological development toward the most pressing societal challenges and foster the dissemination of knowledge beyond organizational boundaries.

BACHELOR or Master of Science is required. Foreign qualifications will be considered valid as far as equivalent in their respective university system.

Milan

Director: VERONICA CHIODO

Co-Director: FEDERICO BARTOLOMUCCI

POLIMI Graduate School of Management (MIP Politecnico di Milano – Graduate School of Business Società Consortile per Azioni)

ED. 26/A VIA LAMBRUSCHINI 4C

20156

MILANO

EDOARDO GIARDINA

0223992820

ipa@gsom.polimi.it