Course OVERVIEW Prof. Liisa Välikangas, DTU Management Leading Innovation in industrial Science and Technology is part of the European Leadership Programme on Industrial Science (ELPIS) developed as a collaboration between leading technical universities in Europe (The university alliance EuroTeQ). The course objective is to equip leaders across disciplines to take charge of developing new, innovative and sustainable products from research, science and technology across universities and companies, so that it becomes market-leading innovation and a source of strategic renewal and resilience for a company. The course will provide you with skills to catalyze market-leading innovations and drive strategic renewal and resilience in their organizations by spotting opportunities for development and creating groundbreaking insights into what technology can provide us with in terms of business advantages and security more broadly. As technology and science fields are increasingly converging, new opportunities for groundbreaking innovation emerge. This requires exceptional leadership to identify opportunities, influence the innovation agenda, navigate uncertainty in the current geopolitical environment and inspire teams. Does your company need to strengthen your capacity for leadership in technology and innovation ? Are you looking for a challenging experience for your senior researchers or team leaders in R&D, product development or innovation, then DTU Learn for Life has the offering for you. An empowering experience at the intersection of leadership and technology With this new offering, we seek to address the current burning platform issues at play across society and industry to ensure European competitiveness, resilience, and security in a more and more complex and volatile world. This includes understanding both the stakes and the opportunities this opens for creating new services and products – including for both civil and military purposes through the dual use of technologies. In this course we will guide you into an interdisciplinary understanding of the leadership needed in this situation, and with these demands to lead innovation and change at a large scale to enable companies to thrive and survive under these conditions. Many of todays and tomorrow’s innovations happen where technologies intersect. We will explore how to lead the opportunity frontier from key enabling and critical technologies such as advanced quantum computing and big data, digitization, life science and bio solutions, technology in energy, manufacturing and materials, nano-electronics and photonics, AI, and e-connectivity and cybersecurity. This is important because these technologies are the driving forces in Europe’s technological sovereignty agenda. Nurture big opportunities You will engage with your peer domain experts as well as with top academics across disciplines and explore the possibilities that the convergence between these technologies reveals. Our best professors will be forming a faculty selected specifically for this course. Together with peers from across Europe and the inspiring faculty, you will be able to discuss game-changing opportunities. The participants in the course will have unparalleled access to the latest research within and across research from DTU and partner universities, established companies, and startups. Interested in participating? Are you an R&D senior specialist or team leader, a senior industrial scientist or domain expert in industry predominantly from research – or are you a mid- to senior level business, HR and product manager seeking a deeper understanding of how to create innovation through technology and research innovation, then this 4-day course at DTU is for you. Sign up now or contact our Senior Executive Officer if you want to learn more about this course or if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you! Early bird pricing : We offer 20% off the full price until October 1st, 2026, or a “2 for 1”, where you only pay for 1 person, but can send 2. Join a European Community of practice Join a European Community of practice This course is just the beginning. By attending, you will join a European community of practice across industries and the best technical universities in Europe with deep experts from the following fields: advanced manufacturing, advanced materials, life-science technologies, micro/nano-electronics and photonics, AI, security, and e-connectivity. Read more about EuroTeQ here : I am a Professional Learner – EuroteQ and in the top menu, under “ELPIS Programme”. The EuroTeQ University Alliance offers standalone executive courses that will eventually form a full Executive Certificate Program ELPIS consisting of a Leadership for Industrial Science: A Premier Leadership Programme for European Innovation – Efteruddannelse og kurser fra DTU Learn for Life module and 3 tech modules wrapped up by a Capstone Project. Why should you take this course? If you are seeking to make sense of how to further the overall company competitiveness in technology and science, whether in R&D, product development, strategy, sales, HR, or marketing, through enhancing your leadership skills, this course is for you. We will guide you into an interdisciplinary world of executive education, where the focus is on building new relations across fields of expertise and knowledge as well as building a European network of like-minded industry and research leaders. You are seeking to enhance your understanding of your own role as a leader (emerging or seasoned) in strengthening the competitiveness of your industry or company through the leverage and application of critical technology and state of the art research aiming at creating spaces for innovation, dual products and solutions contributing to making Europe more resilient, self-reliant and safe in a new geopolitical reality of today. What will you learn? How to lead innovation and strategic use of technology across units and dep
