The module aims at understanding technology and innovation management in companies, answering questions such as the definition of innovation and how it can be promoted or the connection between strategy and innovation. In addition to inputs in general lecture style, the students will develop and prototype a product or service based on a given technology.

Further core topics include:
- Importance and impact of technology and innovation management on society and industry, as well as the importance of according strategies
- Industry dynamics of technological innovation (sources of innovation, types and patterns, standards and design dominance, timing
- Formulating of technological innovation strategy (definition of the organization's strategic direction, choosing innovation projects, collaboration strategies, protecting of innovation)
- Implementing technological innovation strategy (organization for innovation, managing the new product development process, managing the new product development teams, crafting a deployment strategy)

Voraussetzung für die Anmeldung zum Modul:

• erfolgreicher Abschluss von English I
• erfolgreicher Abschluss von weiteren Modulen des 1. Regelstudienjahres im Umfang von weiteren 45 Credits.

• Einführung in die Grundlagen des strategischen Managements
• Theories of the Firm und strategische Schulen
• Strategieprozess
• Umfeldanalysen
• Unternehmensanalysen
• Strategische Konzepte und Generic Strategies
• Strategische Zielsetzungen und strategische Umsetzung
• Strategische Kontrolle und strategisches Lernen
• Umgang mit strategischen Risiken, Risikomanagement
• Geplante, emergente und realisierte Strategien
• Case Study Methode
• Internationale Strategie
• Das Management des strategischen Wandels
• Strategische Implementierung in der Praxis

• Introduction into Taxation
• Tax Systems: Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany and Switzerland
• Solution scheme and interaction: National and international tax law
• National and international tax laws: Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, - Switzerland
• Case Studies: Taxation of natural and legal persons (Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
• Comparative Analysis of tax systems
• Application of double tax agreements

• Written exam at the end of semester

Descriptive statistics with numerical measures, graphical and tabular representations (measures of location, measures of variability, measures of association between two variables, pie charts, dot plots, bar charts, histograms, box plots, scatter plots, contingency tables), simple linear regression (ordinary least squares, ANOVA-table, R-squared, residual standard error, Tukey-Anscombe plot)
Probability theory (definition of a probability space, general addition rules, Laplace models, combinatorics, decision trees, Bayes' theorem, random variables and their distributions, measures of location, variability, skewness and curtosis as measures for the shape of distribution, calculation rules for expectations, variances and covariances, binomial, normal, t-, chi-square and F-distributions, central limit theorem), Statistical inference (basic notions of statistical testing procedures like hypotheses, type 1 error, type 2 error, test statistic, decision rule, p-value, power; applications of binomial, t-, F- and chi-square-tests; point and interval estimates for probabilities and means)

The following conditions need to be met prior to registering for the module:

• successful completion of English I
• successful completion of additional first year programme modules amounting to at least 45 credit points.

Im Modul "Operations Management" werden grundlegende Konzepte, Modelle und Methoden der betrieblichen Leistungserstellung behandelt und in Übungen praktisch angewendet. Zu den wesentlichen Lerninhalten zählen: Grundlagen der betrieblichen Leistungserstellung (insb. wirtschaftliche Zielsetzungen, Transformationsebenen im Unternehmen, Faktor- und Prozessbetrachtung), Beschaffung (insb. Bedarfsermittlung, Make-or-Buy-Entscheidungen, Nachfrageprognose, Bestandsmanagement), Produktion (insb. Produktions- und Ablaufplanung, Prozessdesign, Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätsmanagement) und Logistik (insb. Standortplanung, Transport, Supply Chain Management).

Ziel der Veranstaltung ist es, den Studierenden eine Einführung in die Grundlagen der Mikroökonomie zu geben. Dies umfasst die Grundkonzepte der Haushaltstheorie (Budgetbeschränkung, Präferenzen und Nutzen, Nachfrageentscheidung, Slutsky-Zerlegung), Marktnachfrage und -angebot, Gleichgewicht, Tausch und Wohlfahrt sowie Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit.

• Optimale Konsumentscheidung
  Budgetbeschränkung, Präferenzen, Grenznutzen und MRS
  Substitutionsverfahren, Lagrange-Funktion

• Nachfrage
  Normale und inferiore Güter, EK-Kurve, Engel-Kurve
  Gewöhnliche Güter und Giffen-Güter, PK-Kurve, Nachfragekurve

• Slutzky-Gleichung
  Einkommens- und Substitutionseffekt, kompensierende und äquivalente Variation

• Marktnachfrage und Konsumentenrente
  Elastizitäten, Konsumentenrente, Kosten-Nutzen Analyse

• Marktgleichgewicht
  Inverse Angebots- und Nachfragekurven, Steuerinzidenz, Mengen- und wertsteuern

• Intertemporäre Entscheidung
  Intertemporäre Entscheidungen, Komparative Statik, Inflation,

• Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit
  Erwarteter Nutzen, Risikoeinstellungen, Sicherheitsäquivalent und Risikoprämie

The course is intended to familiarise the students with basic macroeconomic issues and laws. This involves describing overall economic developments and explaining certain economic relationships. An international comparison can highlight differences and similarities between the developments of economies. Furthermore, the students will be sensitized to current topics in economic policy, and a challenge is presented by the financial markets and economic crisis of 2008/2009 and its repercussions until the present time.

Basics in cost accounting (functions und structure), theory of costs and structures of costs (classification by attribution to units of output, classification of costs by capacity volume variance, classification und valuation of activities), systems of cost accounting, full cost accounting, cost type accounting (functions and structure, schema for transition from expenses to costs), cost centre accounting (functions and determination of cost centres, expense distribution sheet clearing of primary or secondary costs centres, determination of overhead rates), product cost accounting (cost unit accounting as job costing, as process costing or as joint costing, cost unit period accounting), direct costing (high-low points method, cost splitting), cost accounting schema, direct costing (as unit costing versus as period costing), level-by-level covering of fixed costs, budgeted costs und activity costing, decision making, accounting ratios, transition to controlling.

• Introduction
• National and international business taxation
• Corporate tax systems
• Choice of legal structure and financing
• Corporate tax rate
• International business taxation: direct business, production sites, subisidiaries
• International tax planning: wealth structures
• International tax planning: financial instruments
• European tax law

Prerequsites to registering in the module:
- Successful completion of English I
- Successful completion of further modules from the first year of studies with a value of 45 ECTS.