Postgraduate Course: Technology and Innovation Management (MSc) (PGEE11064)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Engineering |
College |
College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
10 |
| Home subject area |
Postgrad (School of Engineering) |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| Course description |
In an increasingly competitive and fast changing economic climate innovation represents a key route for organisations that want to survive and prosper. This course addresses the area of the management of technological innovation with a strong emphasis on the key role of organisations in creating, developing and transferring new knowledge, products and processes. In so doing, it provides students with a clear understanding and appreciation of innovation dynamics both within and across organisational boundaries. By drawing from state of the art innovation literatures as well as the extensive use of in-depth case study materials, the course analyses opportunities and challenges related to creating, sustaining and managing innovation with a specific focus on technology-based organisations. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | 15:00 - 17:00 | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Thursday, 15:00 - 17:00, Zone: King's Buildings. Lecture Theatre G10, Darwin Building |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On completion of the module, students should be able to:
1. Appreciate the links between Innovation and competitive advantage and the different kinds of innovations (radical vs incremental, continuous vs. discontinuous, etc.) and innovation models.
2. Understand innovation as a core business process and how innovation can be managed. Distinguish some key characteristics of successful innovation and successful innovators.
3. Develop an evolutionary understanding technological trajectories and the accumulation of firm specific competences, as well as appreciate how some technologies, such as biotechnology, materials and IT, might disrupt these paths and make existing competences redundant or obsolete.
4. Discuss the location of R&D activities and the importance of collaborations and external linkages. Understand different kinds of technology-related corporate strategies.
5. Explain the role of organisational culture and structure in supporting innovation and discuss the key tenets of a learning organisation.
6. Understand how firms manage the internal process of innovation, including effective search and knowledge acquisition, implementation, learning and re?innovation.
7. Distinguish between different kinds of knowledge (tacit, codified, individual, organisational); understand the role of organisational routines and capabilities; discuss the role of standardised procedures and how best practice can be adopted and adapted to suit specific organisations and their contexts.
8. Appreciate the key role of artefacts and technologies as intermediaries and mediators across work and knowledge communities, with an emphasis on the role of ICTs in product and process innovation.
9. Discuss the role of organisational and work communities in supporting innovation and how coordination can be achieved across dispersed and specialised organisational functand boundaries.
10. Understand innovation opportunities and challenges. |
Assessment Information
1 Essay (60%)
1 Presentation (40%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords |
Management, Innovation, Tchnology, Organisations |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Luciana D'Adderio
Tel: (0131 6)51 3573
Email: L.D-Adderio@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Nicola Marshall
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: Nicola.Marshall@ed.ac.uk |
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