Strategic Innovation Management for the Knowledge Economy – ICM Certificate Program

Students from the member universities of the IPR University Center are invited again to participate in the ICM Certificate Program 2026!

The program is organized as a hybrid series of seminars and workshops by the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, in collaboration with the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at the University of Gothenburg.

The concept of “intellectual capital” was popularized by the famous economist John Kenneth Galbraith (Harvard) and operationalized into an innovation strategy by David Teece (UC Berkeley), the most highly cited business scholar in the world. ICM was further developed by Ulf Petrusson, Bowman Heiden, and colleagues at Chalmers University and University of Gothenburg into an interdisciplinary master’s education for engineers, lawyers, and business students to prepare them for the leadership challenges of the 21st-century knowledge economy. The purpose of the program is to provide students with a unique theoretical perspective and the interdisciplinary skills and tools necessary to create and manage strategies for innovation and entrepreneurship in the knowledge economy, in general, and the digital economy, in particular.

The course content will be delivered in 10 x 3-hour sessions (approximately 2-3 per month) from Feb-May, 2026. The program is open to university students (primarily at the master’s degree level) on an invitation basis. The sessions will be held online via Zoom. The sessions will be taught by faculty from Berkeley Haas and CIP, a combination of academics and industry professionals with significant theoretical knowledge and practical experience.

If you are a student at one of our member universities and would like to receive more information about the program and attend the lectures, please contact Head of Education Hilkka Honkanen, hilkka.honkanen@hanken.fi, by 21 January 2026 at the latest.

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