Innovation

Innovation Management Challenge

Period: 27-10-2025 - 19-12-2025Universiteit van Amsterdam

Master’s students will tackle your real and relevant innovation problems. They can spot emerging technologies, apply design thinking, and craft go-to-market strategies. Using the course’s models and methods, they turn insights into clear, actionable reports for your company.

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Description

In this challenge, master students work on an innovation management challenge. The solutions will be practically relevant and supported by collected data and relevant (academic) literature. They will receive training and guidance by lecturers from University of Amsterdam.


✅ Key features of the challenge

  • Program: Master Business Administration
  • Course: Innovation Management
  • Students per team: 4-5 students.
  • No of teams per challenge: 3-6 teams per challenge
  • No. of hours spent per team: 150 hours (this is the total amount of hours spent by all team members)
  • Duration: November - December
  • Supervision: Student teams are supervised and guided by senior lecturers.
  • Deliverables: Presentation and report (in the form of slides) with recommendations.
  • Company time investment: 6-10 hours in total (e.g. kick-off meeting, Q&A session(s), final presentation, etc.)
  • Costs: Free of charge


📑 Challenge Examples

The student teams can work on challenges like, but not limited to, the following:

  • Emerging Technology Assessment: “Explore how a nascent technology could unlock new strategic growth avenues for our core business.”
  • Experience Redesign Brief: “Re-envision a key touchpoint to simultaneously elevate user satisfaction and reduce resource consumption.”
  • AI Enablement Challenge: “Determine where intelligent tools could most effectively augment our knowledge-intensive workflows without eroding human creativity.”
  • IP Positioning Question: “Recommend the optimal protection and commercialization pathway for a novel process or invention in our portfolio.”
  • Ecosystem & Standards Play: “Formulate a market approach that lets us influence, rather than merely adapt to, emerging industry standards in our domain.”

🏢 Company requirement

  • At least 5 employees.

💰 Costs

Free of charge


📨 How to apply

You can submit the challenge directly through the website. Provide a title that summarises the challenge. Subsequently, briefly elaborate on your challenge. See link for a template you could use: https://link.masterchallenge.me/challenge-template or use the challenge generator: https://masterchallenge.me/challenge-generator


🗓 Planning

  • October 1: Deadline for submitting your challenge
  • October 1 (or sooner): Receiving message if your challenge is approved by the Course Coordinator
  • October 27: Introduction session
  • November 24: Mid term Q&A session 
  • December 18 or 19: Final presentations in time slots of 30 minutes (after you are matched to a team, we will schedule the time slots).

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