2013/2014 KAN-CM_A43 Innovation Networks Involved in Urban Sustainability and Climate Adaption
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Innovation Networks Involved in Urban Sustainability and Climate Adaption |
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Language | English |
Exam ECTS | 15 ECTS |
Type | Elective |
Level | Full Degree Master |
Duration | One Semester |
Course period | Spring
Changes in course schedule may occur Wednesday 09.50-12.25, week 06, 08-13-17 |
Time Table | Please see course schedule at e-Campus |
Max. participants | 50 |
Study board |
Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business
Administration
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Lecturers include:
Sofie Dam - CBS Jesper Vej - CBS Sara J. Møhlenberg - CBS Mark Vacher - KU Ethnology Birgitte Hofmann - Aalborg University This course forms part of the Green Innovation in Cities program sponsored by CIEL - http://ciel-lab.dk/green-innovation-in-cities/ |
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Last updated on 23-10-2013 |
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Based on practical hands‐on
experience with real‐world projects this course aims to provide
students with an opportunity to gain insights from this and from
applying and reflecting on the innovation projects based on models,
concepts and theories from curriculum. The Learning Objectives for
the course specify that at the end of the course the student should
be able to manage competently the following objectives in the
context of innovation networks involved in urban sustainability and
climate adaption:
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Course prerequisites | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
A basic knowledge and understanding of innovation, entrepreneurship, marketing, organization, management and sustainability is a good preparation for this course | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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By 2008, more than half of the
world’s population lives in cities and by 2030 it is expected that
more than 5 billion people live in urban settings. Changing the
cities in a more sustainable direction is not an easy task, among
other things, because it is costly to change existing structures,
for instance, sewer systems. In recent years Europe and Denmark has
experienced increasingly intense cloudbursts with the consequence
of more frequent flooding incidents causing large damages on
houses, for instance, the flooding incidence last summer in
Copenhagen the insurance companies’ costs amounted to app. 6
billion DKK. Instead of just implementing the costly solution of
increasing the capacity of the existing sewage system, the
advantages of delaying surface rainwater to avoid flooding have
been recognized among experts. The first projects to avoid flooding
recently begin to materialize, and finding measures in this field
have high priority to the Danish government. Thus, it would be
interesting to further investigate the innovation potential among
networks of companies and public - private collaborations related
to the water, urban greening / sustainabilityand landscape based
stormwater management sectors; not only as climate adaptation, but
also as climate mitigation. Innovation in this field is complex by
nature and involves many different organizations, i.e. actorsthat
need to collaborate in order to create new ideas. In this course
the students will have the opportunity to explore and identify the
potentials for innovation and businessdevelopment among a broad
array of public and private stakeholdersthat develop solutions in
relation to landscape based stormwater management.
Without effective multi-stakeholder collaboration that involves, for instance, suppliers, public sector, business partners, employees, users / citizens and investors, progress is likely to be severely compromised. This course focuses on two areas of collaboration that to date have been largely overlooked despite their importance for green innovation – network collaboration of businesses with the public sector, e.g. public-private partnerships and network collaboration of businesses with users or consumers and public sector collaboration with citizens . Today the public sector shapes the conditions under which many green innovation initiatives unfold through. New solutions that require changes in functionality may require large investments and, as a consequence, it is important to unleash the creative potential of multi-stakeholderpublic-private partnerships by involving them in the design and implementation of new solutions that most often involve process innovation and to a lesser degree product innovation. I line with this, knowledge and appropriation of technology is always embedded in local systems and implementation of sustainable solutions, understanding the nature of various contextualizing processes is of great importance. By adding cultural analysis and ethnographic methodology to theories on innovation processes the course aims at embracing sustainability not only in its potentiality (as possible technical solutions) but as possible implemented functionality, and understanding the context in which this functionality is provided. In the course the students will work with case topics that are relevant to the study of urban sustainability and climate adaption. These topics and the course are in general developed in collaboration with Copenhagen and Aalborg University. The academic world has only recently begun to study how innovation in the field of urban sustainabilityand climate adaption from a multi-stakeholder public-private perspective. Consequently, the course will have to borrow theories from a number of other disciplines, e.g., organization, multi-stakeholder management , cultural analysis, public-private partnerships, innovation, etc. Key business topics include the following related to urban sustainabilityand climate adaptation / mitigation:
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The intention is that students work in teams on project topics or cases developed in collaboration with core public and / or business stakeholders. These stakeholders will also be involved as experts in the course. Presentation of the solutions developed by the student teams to relevant stakeholders is a central element of the course. This is guided by general and project specific lectures | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Expected literature | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lieberherr-Gardiol, F. (2009). Urban
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59(193/194), 331–342. Hossein Azadi, Peter Ho, Erni Hafni,
Kiumars Zarafshani & Frank Witlox (2011): Multi-stakeholder
involvement and urban green space performance, Journal of
Environmental Planning and Management, 54:6, 785-811
Schlange, L.E. (2009). Stakeholder Identification in Sustainability Entrepreneurship The Role of Managerial and Organisational Cognition.Greener Management International, Winter (55), 13–32. Jones, R., Kornum, N. (2012). Managing the co-created brand: Value and cultural complementarity in online and offline multi stakeholder ecosystems.Journal of Business Research, Forthcoming Greve, Carsten (2010): Public-private partnerships in Business and Government. Ch. 25 in The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government, pp.585-599 Entwistle, Tom & Martin, Steve (2005): From completion to collaboration in public service delivery: A new agenda for research. Public Administration, Vol 83, No 1, pp. 233-242 Slater, R., Frederickson, J., Thomas, C., Wield, D. and Potter, S. (2007): A critical evaluation of partnerships in municipal waste management in England. Resources, Conservation and recycling, No. 51, pp. 643-664. Heidegger, Martin: 1977, ”The Question Concerning Technology”, in The Question Concerning Technology – and Other Essays, Garland Publishing, INC, New York. Vacher, Mark: 2010, “Looking at Houses, Searching For Homes.: An Anthropological Analysis of the Relationship Between Danish Homeowners and Their Houses”. Ethnologia Scandinavica. Kusenbach, Margarethe: 2003, “Street Phenomenology : The Go-Along as Ethnographic Research Tool”,Ethnography 2003 4: 455, Nidumolu, Ram, Prahalad, C.K. and Rangaswami, M.R. (2009), “Why sustainability is now the key driver of innovation,” Harvard Business Review, Vol. 87, No. 9, pp. 57-64 Johnson , Mark W. and Suskiewicz, Josh (2009), “How to jump start the cleantech economy,” Harvard Business Review, November, pp. 52-60. Amram, Martha and Kulatilaka, Nalin (2009), “The invisible green hand: How individual decisions and markets can reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” California Management Review, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 194-219. Prahalad, C.K. and Ramaswamy, Venkat (2004), “Cocreation experiences: The next practice in value creation,” Journal of Interactive Marketing, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 5-14 Patzelt, Holger; Shepherd, Dean A.(2011). Recognizing Opportunities for Sustainable Development. Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice. Jul, Vol. 35 Issue 4, p631-652 Bos-Brouwers, H. E. J. (2010). Corporate Sustainability and Innovation in SMEs: Evidence of Themes and Activities in Practice. Business Strategy and the Environment, 19, 417–435. Amabile et al (1996) Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity. Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 39, No. 5. 1154-1184. Neill, G. D. O., Hershauer, J. C., & Golden, J. S. (2009). The Cultural Context of Entrepreneurship Greener Management International, Winter(55), 33–47. Dew, Nicholas; Read, Stuart; Sarasvathy, Saras D.; Wiltbank, Robert. (2008) Outlines of a behavioral theory of the entrepreneurial firm. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Apr, Vol. 66 Issue 1, p37-59. Kim, W.C. and Mauborgne, R. (1999), “Creating new market space”, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 77 No. 1, pp. 83-93. Montgomery (1988), First-Mover Advantages. Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 9, Summer (Special Issue), p. 41-58 Kornum & Bjerre (2007), Grocery E-commerce- Strategic Market Creation International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2007 Schick, H., Marxen, S., & Freimann, J. (2004). Sustainability Issues for Start-up Entrepreneurs *. Greener Management International, Summer (38), 59–71. Tilley, F., & Young, W. (2009). Sustainability Entrepreneurs: Could They Be the True Wealth Generators of the Future? Greener Management International, Winter(55), 79–93. Gibbs, D. (2009). Sustainability Entrepreneurs, Ecopreneurs and the Development of a Sustainable Economy. Greener Management International, Winter(55), 63–79. |
Last updated on
23-10-2013