Innovation Management 1155-12-M13-InMa

Lecture:
1. What is Innovation?
- What is it, and why it matters?
- Types of Innovation
2. Theories of innovation
- Who needs theory?
- Micro-perspective:
* Technology S-curve
* Punctuated equilibrium
* Dominant design
* Absorptive capacity
- Macro-perspective:
* Technological change
* Disruptive innovation
* Kondratiev waves (also called supercycles, great surges, long waves, K-waves or the long economic cycle)
3. Sources of innovation
- Innovation environment
- Individuals
- Corporations
- Users
- Employees
- Outsiders
4. The process of innovation
- Innovation process models: Technology push, Demand-pull, Coupling, Integrated, Network, Open innovation …
- The steps in the innovation process: Insight or research, Development, Design, Market evaluation, Production engineering, Market/pilot testing, Full-scale manufacture and launch
- Tidd and Bessant’s model of the innovation process: Context, Search, Select, Implement, Capture
- De Bess and Kotler’s „The A to F model.”
5. The Innovator's DNA
6. Innovation strategy
- The nature of strategy
- Internal and external routes to innovation
7. Innovation capability
- What is innovation capability?
- The place in theory
- Main elements

Tutorials:
- Case study
- Preparing an essay and a presentation on one of the following topics:
* Innovation capability
* Theory of innovation
* Eco-innovation (environmental innovation/ green innovation / sustainable innovation)
* Open innovation
* Service innovation
* Artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) in the context of innovation
* Measuring the level of innovation
* The commercialisation of scientific research

Total student workload

1. Hours conducted with the participation of the teacher: - participation in lectures - 30 hrs - participation in tutorials – 15 hrs - consultation - 40 hrs - examination- 5 hrs (jointly 90 hrs) 2. The time devoted to self-study of a student of a training course necessary to complete the course successfully: - preparation in lectures (reading literature) - 15 hrs - preparation in tutorials (writing essays/ papers/ projects) – 30 hrs (jointly 45 hrs) 3. The time required to prepare for assessment and grading: - preparation for examination (lecture) - 30 hrs - preparation for graded credit (tutorials) - 15 hrs (jointly 45 hrs) Altogether: 180 hrs (6 ECTS)

Learning outcomes - knowledge

Student: W1: can define innovation – K_W04 W2: knows types of innovation - K_W03 W3: can describe technological change – K_W02 W4: knows theories of innovation – K_W02 W5: knows sources of innovation - K_W04 W6: has advanced knowledge of the process of innovation – K_W07 W7: can define and describe the innovation strategy – K_W08 W8: can describe founding innovation – K_W02 W9: knows main problems connected with managing innovation –K_W08 W10: knows innovation policy – K_W09 W11: can describe innovation clusters – K_W03 W12: can define National Innovation System – K_W03

Learning outcomes - skills

Student can: U1: assess the level of business innovation - K_U02 U2: plan and organize the innovation process - K_U03 U3: build innovation strategy of organization - K_U05 U4: present the designed organization innovative process - K_U09 U5: describe the designed organization innovative process - K_U10

Learning outcomes - social competencies

Student can: K1: work in a group assessing business innovation - K_K03 K2: work in a group designing the innovation process of organization - K_K03

Teaching methods

Conventional lecture and problems lecture. Tutorials: classical problematic method, case study.

Expository teaching methods

- discussion
- problem-based lecture
- informative (conventional) lecture

Exploratory teaching methods

- project work
- case study

Course coordinators

Maciej Zastempowski

Assessment criteria

To pass the tutorials - the condition for accession to the examination.
Written examination.

The range of issues: the problems of the lecture.

W1 - written examination - a test +++
W2 - written examination - a test +++
W3 - written examination - a test +++
W4 - written examination - a test +++
W5 - written examination - a test +++
W6 - written examination - a test +++
W7 - written examination - a test +++
W8 - written examination - a test +++
W9 - written examination - a test +++
W10 - written examination - a test +++
W11- written examination - a test +++
W12 - written examination - a test +++
U1 - project +++
U2 - project +++
U3- project +++
U4 - presentation +++
U5 - written project +++
K1 - project +++
K2 - project +++

Criterion ratings of the exam:
- very good: 95% - 100%
- good plus: 90% - 94%
- good: 80% - 89%,
- satisfactory plus: 70% - 79%
- satisfactory: 60% -69%
- fail: 0% -59%

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