Organizational Innovation

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures are used to explain concepts, models, instruments and techniques. Materials with key topics, diagrams, images, and videos are used. Real-world examples are used to illustrate the topics. The practical assignment enables students to exercise what they have learned in a real-word case.

Learning Outcomes

Provide tools to develop an innovation strategy, based on 3 axes:

Innovation Thesis: where we are as a company, the new business and technology trends, the new challenges and how we will use innovation to respond, selected where to invest (and where not).

Innovation Portfolio: describe the products that are planned for Horizon 1 (current moment), Horizon 2 (~5 years) and Horizon 3 (~10 years).

Innovation Framework: Describe how the company prepares internally and externally to have a constantly updated product portfolio (e.g. internal ideas competition, co-creation, collaboration with incubators and R&DT entities, etc.).

Through a practical exercise that fosters the necessary skills to lead innovation projects and strategic management in a competitive environment in constant change, dealing with complex information and understanding the financial implications of the decisions to be taken within the management of an organisation.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction to innovation management

2. Sources of technology and innovation

3. Developing new products and services

4. Open Innovation and Innovation Models and Strategies

5. Funding Innovation (national and European programs)

6. Innovation Ecosystems

Head Lecturer(s)

Carlos Eduardo Delgado Cerqueira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Written works.: 100.0%

Bibliography

The corporate startup: how established companies can develop successful innovation ecosystems (2017), Tendayi Viki, Dan Toma, Esther Gons

 Innovatin Accounting: A Practical Guide for Measuring Your Innovation Ecosystem's Performance (2021), Dan Toma, Esther Gons

Adcional

Oslo Manual, Guidelines for Collecting and Interpreting Innovation Data, 3rd Edition, OECD, Statistical Office of the European Communities, Luxembourg (2005) [http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/oslo-manual_9789264013100-en]

Keeley, Larry et Al, Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs, Wiley (2013) [https://www.doblin.com/ten-types]

Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation (http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com)

Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change, 5th Edition

Joe Tidd, University of Sussex; John Bessant, University of Exeter Business School