Contents:

I. Basic Concepts:

  • Innovation
  • Innovation Process
  • Innovation System

II. Trajectories

  • Path dependency
  • Technology Trajectories
  • Technology Dynamics

III. Systematizing Innovation

  • Disruptive Innovation Theorem
  • Organizing disruption - Strategy design
  • Scoping and experimenting

IV. Organizational readiness

  • Engaging 
  • Organizing teams and processes
  • Efficient integration with the ecosystem – networks
  • Open models

V. Market dynamics

  • Designing the value chain
  • Strategy design
  • Scoping and experimenting

VI. IPR

  • IPR strategy
  • Managing IPR
  • How to integrate user-driven innovation

VII. Innovative business models

  • Key factors to design a business model
  • Crash and burn cases
  • Business plan

VIII. Entrepreneurship and technology commercialization

  • Opportunity and entrepreneurship
  • Value creation, problems and solutions
  • Value appropriation

Assesment

-  Individual assignments (50%): 2 written essays

- Written exam (50%)

Materials

- Book: Managing Innovation : Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change, Joe Tidd and John Bessant

- Papers and case studies will be made available throughout the course

- Slides

Período: 2ºSemestre