Undergraduate Course: Technology and Innovation Management 5 (MAEE11004)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Year 5 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Management (School of Engineering) |
Other subject area | 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 critical perspective on the key role of technology giving rise to 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. The course draws from state of the art science, technology and innovation literatures in which Edinburgh has longstanding strengths. By making 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)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
12/01/2015 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
78 )
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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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. Appreciate a range of analytic perspectives on technology in society drawing upon history, economics, and the sociologies of science, technology and innovation.
4. 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.
5. Discuss the location of R&D activities and the importance of collaborations and external linkages. Understand different kinds of technology-related corporate strategies.
6. Understand the complex networks of regional, sectoral and national relationships in which organisations are embedded and which contribute to the flow of information, knowledge and technology.
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. Understand innovation opportunities and challenges.
10. Distinguish reasons for success or failure of a multitude of historic and contemporary case studies about innovations and technologies in industry and society.
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Assessment Information
| Coursework: 100% |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Transferable skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Valeri Wiegel
Tel:
Email: v.wiegel@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lynn Hughieson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: Lynn.Hughieson@ed.ac.uk |
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