Industrial Management, 6 credits

A bachelor's degree or a professional degree equivalent to a Swedish Bachelor's degree of at least 180 credits in health care, biomedicine, biology, cellular and molecular biology, pharmaceutics, chemistry, medicine or biotechnology. And proficiency in English equivalent to English B/English 6.

Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to:

Regarding knowledge and understanding

• Explain and describe various technology-based business models and the dynamics of value creation, value proposition, and value capture in industrial enterprises
• Explain and describe how industrial activities are managed and organized.
• Understand the basic principles of financial accounting and reporting
• Understand and explain the activities of an industrial enterprise from different perspectives, based on concepts from the subject of industrial management

​Regarding skills and ability

• Produce and analyse financial reports, on a basic level.

Regarding judgement and approach

• Select, interpret and use different costing techniques as a basis for decisions in various business situations.

The course includes the following main areas in industrial management: industrial value creation, K / I analysis, product calculation, investment assessment, accounting, financial analysis, cash flow analysis, and financing.

The course consists of lectures and exercises. During the course, three partial exams and a project assisgnmnet will be offered on a volontary basis.

The examination consists of

• a written exam (fail/pass/pass with distinction).

Limited number of examinations
Students who have not passed the regular examination are entitled to participate in five more examinations. If the student has failed six examinations/tests, no additional examination or new admission is provided.

Participation in an examination is defined as an occasion on which a student attends an examination, even if the student submits a blank examination paper. If a student has registered to sit an examination, but does not attend the examination, this is not defined as participation in the examination.

If there are special grounds, or a need for adaptation for a student with a disability, the examiner may decide to deviate from the syllabus's regulations on the examination form, the number of examination opportunities,  the possibility of supplementation or exemptions from the compulsory section/s of the course etc.   Content and learning outcomes as well as the level of expected skills, knowledge and abilities may not be changed, removed or reduced.

The course has been cancelled and was offered for the last time in the autumn semester of 2019. 

The course language is English.