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

Home subject area

Business Studies, (Management School and Economics, Schedule H)

Other subject areas

Postgraduate (School of Social and Political Studies), (School of Social and Political Studies, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : To be arranged/Unknown

? 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