GIM
MSc in Global Innovation Management?

Duration: 2 years
Course description:
Successful management of the innovation process is essential for any business wanting to stay ahead of the competition.
The 2-year MSc in Global Innovation Management (GIM) will equip students with the skills needed to transform research outputs into innovative products and services for worldwide markets. It also provides a unique opportunity to test these skills internationally as part of the study programme.

GIM addresses new challenges in innovative global enterprise and provides:

• A practical and global perspective of Innovation Management
• Skills applicable for larger multinational organisations to smaller enterprises
• Expanded perspectives of Innovation Management including Technology Management, R&D, and Product/Service Development with focus on the interface between disciplines involved in the process;
• Increased research capability focused on activities at the periphery of the innovation process.
• All students take a common first year at the University of Strathclyde, then choose either to deepen study at Hamburg University of Technology (Germany), or to apply skills and knowledge in an industrial internship at Aalborg University (Denmark).

The course is structured as follows:

• Semesters 1 and 2 (Year One) provides a strong foundation in the Innovation Management process, with essential practical experience of working within global teams and with an industrial client on product/service development briefs. Strategic technology management, manufacturing business strategy and supply chain
• management are also a central focus.
• Semester 3 at Hamburg looks at early and late phases of the innovation management process. It concentrates on market research for (radical) innovation, cross functional cooperation at the front end of the innovation process, managing innovation projects over geographical and functional/divisional boarders and preparing the market introduction of new products and services.
• Semester 3 at Aalborg is an industrial internship providing the students with global innovation management work experience consolidating the knowledge and skills obtained at Strathclyde. Students will deliver a relevant and theoretically supported project to the host Danish company.
• In Semester 4 all students take a thesis project supervised jointly between academics at the host institution and another partner institution.

The programme is delivered in English and intended for excellent graduates of first degrees in Engineering, Science and Technology. The MSc award is made jointly by the University of Strathclyde and the secondyear institution. Graduates, supported by a network of valuable contacts, enter the international employment
market working:

• With enterprises dealing with high end technological products and services
• as consultants making technology assessment and innovation /change management
• with governmental institutes dealing with innovation policy and strategy
• with relevant research and higher education institutions.

Partners:

1. UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE, United Kingdom (Co-ordinating Institution)
2. SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Australia
3. HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Germany
4. AALBORG UNIVERSITY, Denmark

Contact:
William John Ion
University of Strathclyde
75, Montrose Street
G1 1XQ Glasgow, UNITED KINGDOM
w.j.ion@strath.ac.uk
Grant:

• 881 000 € (15 000 € consortium + 866 000 € scholarships), 2008
• 865 000 € (15 000 € consortium + 850 000 € scholarships), 2009
• 846 000 € (30 000 € consortium + 816 000 € scholarships), 2010

Website: www.globalinnovationmanagement.org

If you are among the top students in your field, and you are interested in acquiring research skills at a very high level, the three-year PhD programme at CBS may be for to you. The programme allows you to conduct research within a topic of your own choice under the supervision of CBS professors, and supported by research training courses. The programme is highly international, and you are expected to participate in international research conferences and spend time abroad as a visiting PhD student.

See the CBS homepage for more information about the PhD programme:http://uk.cbs.dk/phd .

CBS PhD graduates are held in high esteem not only in academia and research institutions but also in government and business where their research qualifications are increasingly demanded. Two thirds of CBS PhD graduates go on to employment outside universities and public research institutions.

CBS now invites applications for PhD scholarships. The scholarships are fully salaried positions, according to the national Danish collective agreement.

The scholarship includes the tuition fees, office space, travel grants plus a salary, currently starting with per month app. DKK 23,370 (app. 3,100 euro) up to DKK 28,477 (app. 3,800 euro) depending on seniority, a monthly non- pensionable allowance (app. 165 euro) plus a pension contribution equivalent to 17,1 per cent on 85 per cent of the base salary.

Your application should include a research proposal that addresses a topic within the CBS research profile. CBS covers all of the classic fields within business economics and business languages connected with the management and operation of public and private organizations – for example, marketing, finance, accounting, organization and translation. In addition, research is carried out in a number of subjects important for the understanding of the challenges firms face in the global knowledge society. These include not only business law, informatics, innovation, international economics, inter-cultural understanding, communication and media research, but also business oriented research in such fields as philosophy, political science, design, anthropology, and history. Please consult the CBS homepage (http://uk.cbs.dk/forskning_viden) for further information about the research topics of CBS.

Closing date: Friday 2 October 2009 at 12.00 noon

Further information can be obtained from the CBS Office of PhD Education, e-mail phdadmission@cbs.dk. Potential applicants are encouraged to identify a preferred department for their PhD studies and contact this department well in advance the closing date in order to develop a research proposal. (Please note that Dan- ish holidays are generally taken in July).

Further Scholarship Information and Application (PDF)

A three-year PhD scholarship at the PhD School in Lifelong Learning and Social Psychology of Everyday Life at the Department of Psychology and Educational Studies (PAES),

The department has a special interest in PhD project proposals within the following areas:

• Work life studies, e.g. illuminated by individualization/collectivity, learning, or health promotion and strategies
• University studies, e.g. illuminated by processes of inclusion/exclusion, rethinking problem based project work, or university student’s everyday life

Furthermore applications within other research areas of the department are welcomed: Everyday life and learning of children and youth; gender, body, and learning; subject, technology, and social practice; social practice and healthcare, and social entrepreneurship. The department’s research groups and programs can be found here: http://www.ruc.dk/paes_en/

The Graduate School in Lifelong Learning and the Social Psychology of Everyday Life offers two graduate programs focusing on lifelong learning and everyday social psychology. The Stipend in question will be affiliated to the relevant program in accordance with the PhD application.

For more information please visit:
The Graduate School in Lifelong Learning and the Social Psychology of Everyday Life: http://www.ruc.dk/paes_en/phd/

For additional information please contact:
- Director of the PhD School, Linda Lundgaard Andersen, the Graduate School in Lifelong Learning, E-mail: lla@ruc.dk
- Program Director Charlotte Højholt, the PhD program in Social Psychology of Everyday Life, E-mail: charc@ruc.dk
- Academic Coordinator, Mikael Meldstad, E-mail: mdm@ruc.dk, tel. (+45) 4674 2732

The conditions of employment are in accordance with the agreement by the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations.

The application must encompass:

• Application form: http://www.ruc.dk/paes_en/phd/info/application_form_PhD/
• Project description (4-6 pages)
• Schedule – time-frame of the PhD
• Budget (only if special costs are incurred due to particular empirical studies – or longer stays overseas)
• CV
• Copies of relevant diplomas and exam-papers
• Copies of relevant recommendations and dissertation statement/statements

The project description must describe the area of interest, the considered methods, and the theoretical approaches.

The purpose of the project description is to enable the PhD school to consider the relevance of the project, possible supervisors as well as the likelihood of completion with the timeframe and resources a three-year PhD scholarship provides.

In this aspect a time frame is of great importance. It serves as basis for assessing whether the candidate has a realistic estimation of what one is able to complete in three years.

The budget should not include own salary. It is solely a budget for special expenses either related directly to the project (interview transcriptions, advanced statistical analyses, etc.) or special expenses to study/travel abroad during the education.

Applications must emailed to mdm-at-ruc.dk as well as be submitted in 5 print copies to:

The PhD School in Lifelong Learning and Social Psychology of Everyday Life
Roskilde University
att. Mikael Meldstad
P10, Box 260,
4000 Roskilde
Denmark

Closing day: Monday, 3 August 2009, at 12.00 noon

Further Scholarship Information and Application

The PhD scholarship is announced within the interdisciplinary research area of Information Technology and Language, which combines knowledge in computer science with knowledge of linguistics. Large collections of written or spoken corpora are currently being developed for a large group of languages, including Danish. Tagged corpora make it possible to train machine learning algorithms and other statistical models which are able to extract different kinds of knowledge from language data.

This knowledge may concern syntactic or semantic information at word level, for example parts of speech or meaning in a given context. Or it can relate to syntactic structure – how to assign constituent or dependency structure to phrases. Finally, it may concern the content of written or spoken corpora, which is generally defined and represented in very different ways depending on the model and the purpose.

The PhD project should focus on one or more of these aspects of knowledge extraction, and the PhD scholar should relate to relevant language technology applications, for instance development of lexical resources (computational lexicons and wordnets), grammar in relation to parsing or statistically-based machine translation, knowledge extraction for expert systems or training of response types in adaptive dialogue systems. For further information see:

http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/PhD/Announcements/languagetechnology/

The application including all enclosures is to be submitted as a single pdf-file to phdapplicationhum.ku.dk. Please write “PhD Scholarship20091708? in the subject area of the email.

Applications Deadline: 17 Aug 2009

Web Address for PhD Scholarship Applications: http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/PhD/Announcements/

Contact Information:
PhD Bolette Pedersen
bspedersenhum.ku.dk
Phone:+45 35 32 90 78
Fax:+45 35 32 90 89

The project
This project is motivated by the vision of being able to provide passive control of the dynamic behavior of wind turbine blades by utilizing the anisotropic properties of composite materials in an intelligent manner. To obtain this vision, one of the main building blocks needed is a general, fully coupled and validated beam element. Also needed are effective and exact methods for determination of stiffness and mass coefficients for such a beam element based on 3D geometry and material data for the blade. The purpose of this Ph.D. project is to develop such a fully coupled beam element.

The fully coupled beam element can be used in aeroelastic calculations to design the structure in order to reduce loading on the blade. Modern pitch-regulating wind turbines use control systems to reduce the blade loads. However, these systems are too slow to react to sudden wind changes. There is therefore high interest in building active or passive control systems into the blades to reduce especially fatigue loads. Passive systems are much more robust with respect to operation interruptions and it is desirable to use the anisotropic material properties for composites to optimize the load reduction behavior of the blades.
The Ph.D. project is part of a larger project supported by the Danish Energy Research Programme (EFP). The Ph.D. project is also partly supported by Vestas Wind Systems A/S, one of the worlds leading wind turbine companies.

Qualifications and work experience
The candidate should have a master degree in engineering or a similar degree with an academic level equivalent to the master’s degree in engineering.

The candidate is expected to have a strong background in:

* Analytical modeling
* Mechanical problems especially involving beams
* The theory behind the finite element method
* Fiber reinforced composite materials

It is an advantage if the candidate has some experience with:

* Wind turbine design
* Aeroelastic codes

What we offer
We offer an exciting and challenging job in an international environment with good possibilities for professional and personal development. The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is a leading technical university in northern Europe and benchmarks with the best universities in the world. Risø National Laboratory has recently been incorporated into DTU, forming a world leading environment in wind energy and disciplines associated with wind turbines. The successful candidate will become member of an environment with activities and expertise in structural mechanics and composite materials in the theoretical field, central to the present project, and the complementary experimental field. The activities are typically characterized by its innovative content and close cooperation with leading wind power companies.

The salary and appointment terms are consistent with the current rules for PhD degree students.

However, Ph.D. students in Denmark are supported by grants on a competitive level, being equivalent to a standard salary for an engineer with a similar experience in a normal job The Ph.D. stipend has a fixed duration of 3 years.

Additional information
Please mark your application “EFP-PhD” and send it by email or letter to Associate Professor Christian Berggreen (cbe@mek.dtu.dk) no later than October 15, 2007.

Associate Professor Christian Berggreen
Technical University of Denmark
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Nils Koppels Allé, Building 403
DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby
DENMARK

The application must be in English or one of the Nordic languages (Danish, Norwegian and Swedish) and include your CV, documentation of MSc and BSc/BEng-degrees, list of grades of your MSc- and BSc/BEng-education, and any other relevant documents. In case of a non-Danish degree please inform about highest grade and lowest passing grade of the grading system.

If you have further questions regarding the position, you are welcome to contact Professor Steen Krenk (+45 4525 1964 / sk@mek.dtu.dk), Associate Professor Christian Berggreen (+45 4525 1373 / cbe@mek.dtu.dk) or Senior Scientist Kim Branner (+45 4677 5470 / kim.branner@risoe.dk).

All interested candidates – irrespective of age, gender, race, religion or ethnic background – are encouraged to apply.

The scholarships for the PhD degree are subject to academic approval, and the candidates will be enrolled in one of the general degree programmes of DTU.

Information about the general requirements for enrolment and the general planning of the scholarship studies is included in the general rules of DTU, which may be obtained by application to the PhD programme office at tel: +45 45 25 11 76 or +45 45 25 11 77.
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