Магистратура
2021/2022
Научно-исследовательский семинар "Управление технологическими инновациями"
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Международный менеджмент / Master in International Management)
Направление:
38.04.02. Менеджмент
Где читается:
Высшая школа бизнеса
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 1 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Преподаватели:
Текич Аня
Прогр. обучения:
Международный менеджмент
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
24
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Technological innovation is a fundamental driver of competitiveness in global markets and one of the central challenges facing international companies. Managing innovation involves more than developing new technologies: firms must identify opportunities, select among competing technological and market trajectories, organize for exploration and exploitation, mobilize internal and external sources of knowledge, and develop effective mechanisms for capturing value from innovation.
The course adopts a strategic and international perspective on innovation management. It combines theory with academic readings, cases, discussion, and managerial simulations. Students are expected to apply theoretical frameworks to evidence, make managerial decisions under uncertainty, justify strategic trade-offs, and defend their recommendations.
Learning Objectives
- The course aims to: 1. Develop students’ understanding of the strategic and organizational foundations of technological innovation, including technological change, innovation strategy, organizational capabilities, and the management of exploration and exploitation. 2. Provide an integrated understanding of how firms organize and source innovation and capture value from it, including internal and external sources of innovation, open innovation, intellectual property, and complementary assets. 3. Develop students’ ability to analyse and address innovation-management challenges in international business settings, making and defending evidence-based managerial decisions under uncertainty.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Students will learn how to become the team players and pursue effective exchange of relevant ideas and experiences within the teams, as their members or leaders, while being ready to acquire knowledge and skills independently, creating the basis for the self-directed and autonomous life-long learning
- Students will have comprehensive set of knowledge and skills that will enable them to explain and critically discuss the key theoretical concepts related to innovation and innovation management
- Students will have the understanding of the issues of management of technological innovation at both strategic and operational levels in companies
- Students will improve their skills of clearly presenting and unambiguously communicating the main elements of companies’ innovation strategies to both specialist and non-specialist audiences in English, both orally and in writing
- Students will learn how to analyse companies’ technological innovation strategies and propose future trajectories, while reflecting on potential divergence between theoretical concepts and real-world cases
- Explain and critically discuss major concepts and frameworks in technological innovation management, including types and patterns of innovation, technological change, dynamic capabilities, ambidexterity, open innovation, and value appropriation.
- Analyze a firm's innovation strategy by evaluating its technological paths, current competitive position and resource endowment, and the organizational processes through which innovation is searched for, selected, implemented, and commercialized.
- Evaluate how organizations manage exploration and exploitation, including the roles of leadership, organizational structure, people, culture, and different forms of organizational ambidexterity.
- Assess internal and external sources of innovation and evaluate when and how firms should collaborate with users, communities, partner companies, universities, and other external actors.
- Analyze value-appropriation strategies by assessing the roles and complementarities of patents, trademarks, copyright, industrial designs, trade secrets, technological know-how, brands, distribution channels, and other complementary assets.
- Develop and defend managerial recommendations for innovation-related problems in international business settings, working effectively in teams and communicating evidence-based arguments clearly in English.
Course Contents
- Foundations of innovation management
- Innovation strategy and the innovative organization
- Sources of innovation
- Value creation and appropriation
- Innovation strategy simulation
- Global innovation management simulation
Assessment Elements
- Discussion engagementThere will be four discussion classes during the course. Discussions will be focused on the different aspects of the management of technological innovation, e.g., sources of innovation, value creation and appropriation of benefits from innovation, development of technological innovation strategy, building the innovative organization, etc. To prepare for discussion classes, students will be required to prepare their pre-discussion notes (i.e., main take-aways from the provided articles / case studies).
- Team project presentationsAt the beginning of the course, students will be required to form teams (3 students) for their team projects. Each team will choose a different company from the list of the 50 most innovative companies (BCG, 2021). Teams will be required to: (1) identify paths (i.e., technological trajectories) that the company has been following so far; (2) analyse the company’s position in dynamic global market; (3) identify the processes that the company uses to manage technological innovation. Students are required to submit their team project presentations and jointly present their work during the final week of the course. Project work that is not submitted and/or presented will not be graded. Individual contribution to team project is going to be peer-evaluated.
- Individual reportBuilding upon their team project, students (individually) will be required to write an individual report and make recommendations for future strategy of the company they chose and focused on in their team project presentations. Their recommendations should consider strategic aspects previously discussed in the team project (i.e., paths, position and processes) in more detail. Individual student must offer his/her own perspective in the report. Even though the members of the same team will focus on the same company, reports made by the individual team members must be essentially different.
Interim Assessment
- 2021/2022 1st module0.2 * Team project presentations + 0.6 * Individual report + 0.2 * Discussion engagement
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Dodgson, M. The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management [Электронный ресурс] / M.Dodgson, D.M.Gann, N.Phillips, eds.; БД oxfordhandbooks. - Oxford University Press; 2014– Режим доступа: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199694945.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199694945 – Загл. с экрана.
- Strategic management of technological innovation, Schilling, M. A., 2023
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Innovation and entrepreneurship, Bessant, J., 2024
- Trott, P. (2016). Innovation Management and New Product Development. Pearson.