Content, progress and pedagogy of the
module
A student who has completed this module:
Learning objectives
Knowledge
- can combine knowledge about sustainable innovation and design
of ‘things and objects’ with knowledge about the market where
things may be sold and consumed
- has knowledge of how markets can be constructed to incorporate
‘more sustainable things and practices’ and be part of solving the
environmental challenges
- can explain fundamental concepts of neo-classical economics,
the role of externalities and the associated view of markets as
natural and pre-existing
- can explain fundamental concepts of from economic sociology on
markets as constructions comprising market specific instituted
arrangements that constitute legitimate goods, economic actors, and
those involved in making or challenging market
arrangements
Skills
- can assess the competitive situation of a product, a service or
a system
- can describe the life of a product, service or system on the
market and map out the processes it becomes part of
- can discuss how product, service and system design plays into
the enactment of markets
- can assess how goods are valuated with prices and list of other
qualities
- can discuss how consumers become able to calculate, compare and
make judgments about goods
- can discuss and work out strategies for how different actors
can shape rules, standards and regulations that become part of
framing market arrangements for products
Competences
- can independently take part in discussions and reflections on
how markets arrangements can facilitate more sustainable goods and
market practices
Type of instruction
Reading and analysing texts, lectures, case-work, field study as
well as group discussions
Exam
Exams
Name of exam | Market Creation |
Type of exam | Written or oral exam
Either written, oral or both. This will be determined in the
semester
description. |
ECTS | 5 |
Permitted aids | |
Assessment | 7-point grading scale |
Type of grading | Internal examination |
Criteria of assessment | The criteria for evaluation are stated in the Joint Programme
Regulations |