Management of Innovation (Week 40-49 9:00-11:45)

Faculty
Lars Bo Jeppesen, Associate Professor, Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics, Keld Laursen, Professor, Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics and Jens Frøslev Christensen, Professor, Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics

Course Coordinator
Lars Bo Jeppesen, E-mail: lbj.ino@cbs.dk

Basic knowledge of theories related to management, technology, innovation, and organizations.

The course aims to provide a set of advanced insights into the field of Management of Innovation spanning from foundational themes to the most recent developments of the field.

Both competitiveness of firms and welfare in general depends on the ability to introduce innovative products, processes and services. Interest in management of innovation has traditionally centered on firm-internal aspects of processes such as, for instance, how collaboration and interaction among specialized professionals take place in the creation of innovation; how to deal with unavoidable uncertainty involved; and the path dependency in skills and resources. In recent years there has been a surge in interest among scholars and practitioners in methods that allow the firm systematically to source its inputs externally. Innovation that originate from sources external to the firm has emerged as an important phenomenon and has been associated with labels such as open innovation, user innovation, crowd sourcing, and open source. These trends have also given rise to novel and so far immature research agendas that promise to enhance our understanding of the processes and sources of innovation in the years to come.

The introductory session lays out basic concepts used in management of innovation. Then follows a session on key bodies of theory used in the management of innovation literature. The subsequent two sessions focus on classical issues of industry dynamics, sources of innovation and models of innovation life cycles. The remainder of the course addresses various core issues of innovation management at firm and inter-firm level. After a session on appropriability and markets for technology, the course sessions moves from primarily addressing firm-internal innovation management, over firm involvement with “its” ecosystem of potential contributors (external collaborators) to free standing innovation systems that do not necessarily have a focal firm coordinating the innovative efforts (e.g. open source types of innovation). Collaboration within, across and outside firm boundaries, intellectual property rights and search and problem solving are among the key issues addressed as they relate to management of innovation. The course will also focus on how to conduct research in the area of management of innovation, that is, how to formulate intriguing research questions and how to deal with methodologies needed to answer these questions.

See attached: Management of Innovation

There is a 3-hours written exam, open-book. Participation in class is required.

The course will consist of lectures. There will be weekly sets of questions that the students should work on either alone or in small groups. The students are expected to present answers to the questions in front of the class.

See attached course description.

Deadline: <05.09.2010>

Applications should be sent as e-mail to:
Shi Hua Chen Kold
E-mail: shc.ino@cbs.dk
Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics

Please remember to state your name, email, Department and University

3 hours on Thursdays in Week 40-49 (Time slot: 9:00-11:45)