The TIM Concept

Innovation is the key to the long-term success of companies and entire economies! In order to compete on national and international markets, new products and processes must be developed and placed on the market at ever shorter intervals. This calls for close cooperation between a company’s technical and commercial departments.

In order to accomplish this specialists and interface managers who have a solid understanding of both technical and business areas are now in demand in the industrial sector. In addition, thorough knowledge about how innovation processes function and about the complex issues linked to them is necessary. These special abilities can not be learned in traditional courses of study.

This is exactly where the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) master’s program comes into play. Our goal is to educate interdisciplinary experts who can master technological and economic challenges while working in international teams.

The TIM master’s program therefore considers all relevant aspects of technology and innovation management. Participants gain hands-on experience and learn, for example, how to successfully manage innovation processes and projects, how to evaluate the future potential of new technologies, how to carry out innovation market research and how to develop business plans and financing concepts for innovation. In addition, technical knowledge ”updates” are given in selected subject areas and fields of innovation.