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Innovation Management

Overview

  • Credit value: 15 credits at Level 7
  • Convenor and tutor: Dr Odile Janne
  • Assessment: a two-hour examination (100%)

Module description

In this module you will gain a thorough understanding of the central issues of innovation management and strategy in firms.

Indicative syllabus

  • Introduction and overview
  • Models of innovation
  • Corporate competencies for innovation
  • Strategy in technology intensive industries; profiting from innovation
  • Strategy in technology intensive industries; facing disruption
  • Intellectual property rights: justification and strategy
  • Collaborative arrangements
  • Multinational company networks
  • Innovation policy: rationale and implications