CORSO DI STUDIO: Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Economia aziendale                                                 a.a. 2015/2016

Denominazione insegnamento

Innovation Management

Lingua dell’insegnamento: Inglese
Crediti e ore di lezione: 6 CFU – 48 ore di lezione

Moduli: NO

Settore scientifico disciplinare: SECS-P/08

Docente: Guido Bortoluzzi
Indirizzo email: guido.bortoluzzi@me.com
Pagina web personale:

Prerequisiti e propedeuticità/Requirements

PREREQUISITI: Business Management
PROPEDEUTICITA’: Business Strategy

Conoscenze e abilità da acquisire/Knowledge and skills

The student shall be able to:
- recognize the importance of innovation and of its management in today’s economic and technological scenario
- recognize what are the main constituents of an innovation strategy
- describe what are the main organizational antecedents of innovation
- recognize what are the main innovation sources
- describe and to manage the process of ideas selection

Indicare i risultati di apprendimento attesi come riportati nei seguenti Descrittori di Dublino:

Skills related to the discipline

Conoscenza e comprensione: students are expected to develop a deep understanding about how firms should manage innovation-related activities at the strategic, organizational and managerial levels, inside and outside the firm’s boundaries, in order to increase their likelihood to remain competitive in a fast changing economic and technological scenario.

Capacità di applicare conoscenza e comprensione: students must be able to apply the knowledge acquired in class to their working life

Soft skills

Autonomia di giudizio: students should be develop the ability to understand which organizational solutions and managerial processes could be effectively (or not) able applied to a specific firm in order to increase its innovation capability

Abilità comunicative: students should develop the ability to describe what are the main organizational solutions and managerial practices aimed at increasing the innovation capability of the firm

Capacità di apprendimento: students should be able to learn what are the most diffused and effective organizational solutions and managerial strategies aimed at increasing the innovation capability of the firm

Programma e contenuti dell’insegnamento/Course description

After clarifying what innovation is and why it is so important for the firm’s competitiveness, the course will focus on three main aspects: the innovation strategy; the organizational antecedents of innovation and the innovation management process.

For further information students are kindly invited to refer to the official syllabus of the course (materialedidattico.com)

Attività di apprendimento e metodi didattici previsti/Teaching and Learning activities

A sound mix frontal lessons, case studies, group discussions and a project work.

Modalità di verifica dell’apprendimento/Examination

The final grade is determined according to the following:
- 70% is collected through the final exam (written and multiple choice type)
- 20% is collected through case studies and group discussions managed in class
- 10% is collected through a project work

For non attending students, the final grade is determined exclusively by the result of a written exam (open questions type)

For further information students are kindly invited to refer to the official syllabus of the course (materialedidattico.com)

Testi/Bibliografia/Bibliography

Text book:
- Tidd J., Bessant J., Managing Innovation. Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change, Wiley, 5th edition
Additional readings:
- Ed Catmull, How Pixar fosters collective creativity, Harvard business review, September, 2008
- Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani, How to Manage Outside Innovation, Sloan Management Review, Summer 2009, Vol. 50, No. 4

For further information students are kindly invited to refer to the official syllabus of the course (materialedidattico.com)

Strumenti a supporto della didattica/Further readings and support material

- All the slides in pdf, the readings, the syllabus of the course and the supporting material is uploaded in the moodle platform (materialedidattico.com).

Tesi/Thesis

Empirical dissertations (case studies, surveys) are preferred

Note/Remarks

Students must refer to the official syllabus of the course for all the information related to the organization of the course and the schedule of the lessons. The syllabus is constantly updated by the lecturer and is available in the moodle platform (materialedidattico.com).