Education and Innovation Management: A Contradiction? How to Manage Educational Projects if Innovation is Crucial for Success and Innovation Management is Mostly Unknown

Innovations are new combinations of means to reach goals (Hauschild, 2005). A program under the US DOL grant (December 2014) shows that industry innovation and project management can be transferred to education. The paper uses two cases to explain targets, project management, and cultural alignments (US/GER/JPN) to ensure this transfer.