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Developing Innovative Training for Business Managers: I-SME Project Between Finland and Vietnam

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The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations

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Abstract

Organisations need to innovate to be competitive. People who want to start an enterprise or just want to be an outstanding employee, need to learn how to recognize opportunity, harness the resources to exploit that opportunity, exercise their creativity, and create sustainable solutions. It is important to teach, entrepreneurship, leadership and innovation. Although there are debates about whether innovation can be taught, the teaching of innovation and entrepreneurship has grown dramatically over the past decade. Through a case study describing a Finnish/Vietnamese project to teach innovation to business managers in Vietnam, this paper support the opinionthat innovation can be taught and learned. Based on the virtual enterprise methodology and blended learning environment, the training course has been delivered small and medium sized enterprises’ managers in Vietnam by both Finnist and Vietnamese experts. This paper discusses the development of the joint course, the problems encountered and draw lessons in both practical and theoretical aspects.

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    At the time of this paper, only 1st module has been completed.

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  1. Foreign Trade University, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Dao Ngoc Tien

  2. Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Seinäjoki, Finland

    Anne-Maria Aho

  3. Staffordhire University, Stafford, UK

    Lorna Uden

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Computing, Staffordshire University, Stafford, United Kingdom

    Lorna Uden

  2. College of Management, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Taiwan

    Leon S.L. Wang

  3. and Control Faculty of Science, Universidad Salamanca Department of Computing Science, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez

  4. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Hsin-Chang Yang

  5. Department of Information Management, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Taiwan

    I-Hsien Ting

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Tien, D.N., Aho, AM., Uden, L. (2014). Developing Innovative Training for Business Managers: I-SME Project Between Finland and Vietnam. In: Uden, L., Wang, L., Corchado Rodríguez, J., Yang, HC., Ting, IH. (eds) The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7287-8_46

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