4506695: Technology and Innovation Management

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Semester:SS 18
Type:Lecture
Language:English
Scheduled in semester:6
Semester Hours per Week / Contact Hours:45.0 L / 34.0 h
Self-directed study time:56.0 h

Module coordination/Lecturers

Curricula

Bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration (01.09.2012)

Description

The lecture aims at understanding technology and innovation management in companies, answering questions such as the core of innovation and how it can be promoted or the connection between strategy and innovation.
Topics covered are:
- Strategic management of technology-based firms
- Technology development and innovation
- Classic and open innovation process
- Collaborative innovation
- Intellectual property
- Creativity and innovation
- Organizing research and development
- Ideation
- Financing technology-based projects
- Experimentation and prototyping
- Success and success measures of innovation

Qualifications

  • At the end of the module, the students are able to describe the meaning of technology and innovation management. They can define the functions, characteristics and goals of technological innovation management. They have the ability to explain the importance of technological innovation management especially for the industry sector. They are able to evaluate business strategies, particularly with regard to drawbacks and opportunities for innovations. The students remember the opportunities for the organization of innovation, understand the innovation process and are able to analyze innovation processes for simple examples out of industry. The students have the ability to explain the potential for conflicts within the innovation process. They are able to analyze information and can estimate its importance for industry.
  • The students gain appropriate skills for discussing and arguing in the economic life.

Lectures Method

Interactive lecture with discussions, exercises and case studies

Exam Modalities

  • written examination

Dates

DatumZeitRaum
27.02.201809:00 - 17:00S10 (Fabrikweg)
20.03.201809:00 - 17:00H3
10.04.201809:00 - 17:00H4
08.05.201809:00 - 17:00H3
29.05.201809:00 - 17:00H3

Exams

  • PWW-BA-12_Technology & Innovation Management - VO (SS 18, bewertet)
  • PWW-BA-12_Technology & Innovation Management - VO (WS 18/19, abgesagt)