Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation in Healthcare Environments

About this programme

The course gives you the skills to lead, drive entrepreneurship and innovate in the ever-changing healthcare industry. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation sections are taught by experts at Europe's leading universities in the field. Please note that Students not located in Sweden may have problems attending a course at KTH. You could meet obstacles if you're required to pay fees or if you do not have a Swedish Mobile BankID. Please note: all information from the Course syllabus is available on this page in an accessible format. with an overall focus is on understanding and addressing challenges and opportunities in the healthcare industry. The course is given entirely remotely, in English. The course is given by KTH, but is a collaboration between KTH and two European universities (Trinity College, Dublin, and University of Lisbon); hence, the parts entrepreneurship and innovation in the healthcare industry are given by Europe's experts in the field. The course includes web seminars with mandatory attendance, with associated reflection exercises and hand-in excersises, literature studies and recorded lectures. The hand-in exercises are presented in writing and then orally at web seminars. At the end of the course, a written examination in quiz form is given. The overall goal of the course is to provide the student with basic knowledge of how to lead, innovate and drive entrepreneurship in the complex and ever-changing healthcare industry (which is internationally seen as an environment that is difficult to predict and is called ’VUCA’ (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complex