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