R&D Management for Tech Businesses

The module combines a strategic approach to R&D management with practical tools for creating, commercializing, and scaling technological innovations.

Start

July 2025

Duration

4 days

Language

Ukrainian, English

City

Lviv

The price for 1 module

34 400 UAH (excluding VAT)

The price for 4 modules

102 340 UAH (excluding VAT)

About the program
How to Launch and Scale R&D to Drive Business Results? Many promising innovations remain just ideas due to a lack of strategy and understanding of commercialization. This module of the Certificate Program in Technology Management develops managerial skills for creating, testing, and improving technologies, commercializing them, and scaling innovations. Daily workshops will reinforce practical knowledge, ensuring technological developments evolve into successful market solutions. 
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Program’s structure

During the course, you will learn about creating an R&D roadmap, assessing product/technology prospects concerning a technological landscape, and mastering the mechanism of technology commercialization. In particular, the classes are supposed to cover the following points:

  • Day 1: R&D stages and value chain, types of R&D, company mapping. Technology commercialization frameworks.
  • Day 2: Navigating the cutting-edge technology landscape. R&D ecosystem management.
  • Day 3: Responsible Research & Innovations. Launching research programs. 
  • Day 4: Talent Management in R&D. Final group work and presentations. R&D management reflections.

This module is part of the Certificate Program in Technology Management, which also includes:

  1. Strategic Marketing: April 9–11, 2025 (Wednesday–Friday)
  2. Product Management in the Tech Industry: April 30 – May 3, 2025 (Wednesday–Saturday)
  3. Software Architecture for Managers: June 2025 (date to be confirmed)
  4. R&D Management in Tech Business: July 2025 (date to be confirmed)

Certificate Program in Technology Management

Program value

What you will gain from the R&D Management module

Upon Completion of the Program, Participants Will Be Able To:

  • Launch and effectively manage the R&D function within a company.
  • Develop an R&D roadmap and assess the potential of new technologies.
  • Design commercialization and scaling strategies for innovations.
  • Manage the research ecosystem and engage with key stakeholders.
  • Implement modern approaches to R&D team management.

Certification and further opportunities

Upon completing the Certificate Program in Technology Management, participants will receive:

  • A Certificate from UCU Business School for the program or an individual course.
  • The opportunity to continue studies in the MSc in Technology Management program (subject to admission requirements) with a tuition discount for those who complete all four courses in the certificate program.
For whom

The Certification Program in Technology Management is designed for:

  • Managers of technology companies.
  • Business owners or startup founders in the tech industry.
  • Teams or individuals who want to understand better how technology-driven companies operate.
Professor
Mykola Maksymenko
Visiting lecturer
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Contact Person
Ostap Salovskyi

Academic manager MSc in Technology Management
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