Admission requirements
Intended for all Bachelor students registered for the minor Responsible Innovation.
Description
Innovation management is turning ideas for new products or services to commercial success. This transformation process is typically multi-disciplinary in nature, which means that in practice people from different backgrounds and with various specializations work together.
The innovation process combines creativity and arts, marketing and technology, psychology and organizational design, law in relation to patents and to government regulation, and many more fields of expertise. All these different perspectives must be used to select the few good and responsible ideas out of hundreds of ideas and to turn those good ideas into commercially successful, yet responsible, applications. The course uses a variety teaching materials: lectures, moocs, case studies, workshops, articles, explainer video’s and podcasts.
Course objectives
After this course students will be able to:
Recognize and use the main (responsible) Innovation Management terminology and concepts.
Describe and recognize different types of innovation.
Be able to explain the adoption life cycle and innovation adoption at the individual level.
Define, explain and stimulate individual and group creativity.
Be able to describe what an innovation strategy is, why it is important, and which tools and methods can be employed to craft a responsible innovation strategy.
Describe what an innovation portfolio is and how to effectively and optimally select innovation projects.
Describe how to use and create open innovation in an innovation funnel.
Explain the importance of teams, team structures and networks for pursuing innovation.
Explain what a culture for innovation consists.
Timetable
The timetables are available through My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
- Lectures, in class debate
Assessment method
Assessment
Take Home assignments (2) submitted in a short timeframe online
Group assignment
Active participation / cooperation in class / group
Weighing
Take home assignment 1 (30%)
Take Home assignment 2 (30%)
Group assignment (30%)
Active participation / cooperation in class / group (10%)
The final mark for the course is established by determining the weighted average. To pass the course, the weighted average of the partial grades must be 5.5 or higher.
Resit
The resit consists of an extra assignment covering the different lectures and the reading materials of this course.
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
King, Andrew A., and Baljir Baatartogtokh. "How useful is the theory of disruptive innovation?." MIT Sloan management review 57.1 (2015): 77.
Markides, Constantinos. "Disruptive innovation: In need of better theory." Journal of product innovation management 23.1 (2006): 19-25.
Charitou, Constantinos D., and Constantinos C. Markides. "Responses to disruptive strategic innovation." MIT Sloan Management Review 44.2 (2003): 55-63A.
Hambrick, Donald C., and James W. Fredrickson. "Are you sure you have a strategy?." Academy of Management Perspectives19.4 (2005): 51-62.
Pisano, Gary P. "You need an innovation strategy." Harvard business review 93.6 (2015): 44-54.
Eagar, Rick, et al. "The Future of Innovation Management: the next 10 years." Prism 1.1 (2011): 21-37.
Henderson, Rebecca M., and Kim B. Clark. "Architectural innovation: The reconfiguration of existing product technologies and the failure of established firms." Administrative science quarterly (1990): 9-30.
Cabral, Sandro, et al. "Value creation and value appropriation in public and nonprofit organizations." Strategic Management Journal 40.4 (2019): 465-475.
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory (only applies to Leiden students).
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Arsenaal.
Remarks
Not applicable.