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Management of R&D and Product Innovation (SU0012)

? Credit Points : 20  ? SCQF Level : 11  ? Acronym : MSE-P-SU0012

This course is concerned with understanding how companies in the research-based industries (e.g. chemical, electronics) go about product innovation. Specifically, by the end of the course students should be able to:

to comment intelligently on the economic significance and general nature of innovation

to combine and analyse critically empirical evidence and relevant conceptual material on the innovation process in the R&D-based industries, in particular the biotechnology, software and ecommerce industries

to address the complexities of specific practical problems surrounding the management of innovation, such as issues in the management of R&D, design, technology transfer and technological collaboration

to debate related issues of public and private policy

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

After completing the course the student will have:

Developed knowledge and understanding, including:

enabling her/him to better understand product innovation processes,

critically appreciate literature relevant to product innovation processes,

appreciate product innovation processes in selected emergent sectors

link product innovation processes to a range of organisational and social issues

Assessment Information

Essay 35%. Major report 65%

Contact and Further Information

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Mrs Freda Paterson
Tel : (0131 6)50 8065
Email : f.paterson@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Dr Anthony Kinder
Tel : (0131 6)51 3858
Email : tony.kinder@ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.man.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/

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