The purpose of this paper is to examine the amount of knowledge-oriented tasks and requirements within the competencies-profile of an innovation-manager. Frequency analysis of 31 innovation-manager position job advertisements. As there are no current studies to the competencies profile of an innovation manager this research paper is a reasonable addition to existing literature. Even more there is currently no comparison between knowledge- and innovation-manager, thus we contribute to this research gap. The required skills and knowledge for innovation- and knowledge-managers appear highly similar, while their tasks are quite distinct.