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Undergraduate Course: Technology and Innovation Management 5 (MAEE11003)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Year 5 Undergraduate) Credits10
Home subject areaManagement (School of Engineering) Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionIn 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 (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1) WebCT enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
King's BuildingsLecture1-11 15:00 - 17:00
First Class First class information not currently available
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 Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsManagement, Innovation, Tchnology, Organisations
Contacts
Course organiserDr Luciana D'Adderio
Tel: (0131 6)51 3573
Email: L.D-Adderio@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Kathryn Nicol
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: kathryn.nicol@ed.ac.uk
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