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2013/2014  KAN-CM_A45  CANCELLED -The Beijing-Copenhagen Urban Challenge: Innovating Building-Integrated Designs for Green Energy- CANCELLED

English Title
CANCELLED -The Beijing-Copenhagen Urban Challenge: Innovating Building-Integrated Designs for Green Energy- CANCELLED

Course information
Language English
Exam ECTS 15 ECTS
Type Elective
Level Full Degree Master
Duration One Semester
Course period Autumn
Changes in course schedule may occur

Week 37-39 at CBS Monday Afternoon, Wednesday afternoon and Friday afternoon,
week 40-42 in Beijing,
Friday afternoon week 43-45 at CBS
Time Table Please see course schedule at e-Campus
Max. participants 6
Study board
Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business Administration
Course coordinator
  • Niels Kornum - Department of Marketing (Marketing)
Lecturers include:
Thomas Howard from Department of Mechanical Engineering, DTU

This course forms part of the Green Innovation in Cities program sponsored by CIEL - http:/​/​ciel-lab.dk/​green-innovation-in-cities/​
Main academic disciplines
  • Business Ethics, value based management and CSR
  • Innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Marketing
  • Organization
  • Political leadership, public management and international politics
Last updated on 01-05-2013
Learning objectives
This course aims to provide students with an opportunity to gain insights based on hands‐on experience with real‐world projects and apply relevant models, concepts and theories in order to understand the course topics. 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 innovating urban building-integrated designs for green energy:
  • To demonstrate an understanding of how, why and when to apply relevant models, concepts and theories from the curriculum to the selected projects
  • To identify and analyze the relationships between these models, concepts and theories mutually and in relation to the selected projects
  • To assess critically the value of these models, concepts and theories for developing green innovations in relation to the selected projects
  • Besides these objectives, it is an important objective that the student develops an understanding of how different scientific fields contribute to an understanding of the overall course topic and how the students own scientific field relate to other scientific fields activated in the processes of the course, i.e. reflect on potential synergy from cross-disciplinarity.
Course prerequisites
As only 6 students from each university can participate, students should email the course coordinator a max. 3 page application including the student’s: curriculum, business experience, interdisciplinary and intercultural skills as well as motivation and personal skills.

A basic knowledge and understanding of innovation, entrepreneurship, marketing, organization, management and sustainability is a good preparation for this course.
Examination
Oral Exam based on Miniproject:
Examination form Oral exam based on written product

In order to participate in the oral exam, the written product must be handed in before the oral exam; by the set deadline. The grade is based on an overall assessment of the written product and the individual oral performance.
Individual or group exam Individual
Size of written product Max. 15 pages
Assignment type Project
Duration
Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
20 min. per student, including examiners' discussion of grade, and informing plus explaining the grade
Preparation time No preparation
Grading scale 7-step scale
Examiner(s) Internal examiner and second internal examiner
Exam period Autumn Term
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
Course content and structure
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. Because of scale and proximity cities, in principle, offer a favorable setting for the resolution of social and environmental problems The challenge for the next few decades is learning how to exploit the possibilities urbanization offers and it becomes increasingly important that cities become sustainable and provide good living conditions for its inhabitants. An important part of this process is to transform the cities to a post-carbon energy supply by integrating renewable energy elements in suitable ways in the town structures and surfaces. 
 
The price of solar cell panels has dropped significantly the last few years and as a consequence integrating them in new, as well as in existing, building surfaces is fast becoming an economically viable alternative. However, the challenge is how to integrate the panels in designs that conform to existing and new building structures and surfaces in esthetically satisfactory ways. The same design issue relates to small and medium sized wind mills when integrated in existing and new building structures and surfaces; and the assortment of these types of wind mills is rapidly increasing emphasizing the need to consider the design issue in more detail.
 
The challenges facing businesses and the public sector to develop and market green innovations in the area of innovating urban building-integrated designs for green energy are formidable. A wide range of subjects contribute valuable insights on these challenges. Without effective multi-stakeholder collaboration that involves, for instance, users / citizens and investors suppliers, public sector, business partners, 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 or the public sector with citizens / users / consumers. Today the public sector shapes the conditions under which many green innovation initiatives unfold through, for example, policies affecting taxation, pricing and procurement. Incentive structures for reducing energy consumption are often relatively weak or totally absent. 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.
 
The course is formed as a Beijing-Copenhagen Urban Challengewhere the participants are Master’s students who will work on innovating building-integrated designs for green energy. See teaching methods below.
 
The academic world has only recently begun to study innovating urban building-integrated designs for green energy 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 , public-private partnerships, innovation, etc.
 
Key business topics include the following related to innovating urban building-integrated designs for green energy:
  • The role of business and public sector (process) innovations
  • The role of multi-stakeholder networks supporting these innovations
·         Public-private partnerships related to organizing, managing or implementing innovative projects
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Market Creation
  • Urban green energy innovation and (building-integrative) innovative designs.
The course aims to provide students with an opportunity to gain practical hands‐on experience with real‐world urban building-integrated designs for green energy innovation projects and processes in the context of multi-stakeholder public-private collaboration, and reflect academically on the selected topics and processes. Especially, in this course the student with gain experience on working in both cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural teams, including working on the project both in China and Denmark. In this sense certain work aspects from global companies are simulated and experienced
Teaching methods
The course is formed as a Beijing-Copenhagen Urban Challenge where the participants are Master’s students who will work on innovating building-integrated designs for green energy. 6 teams of 4 students (2 participants from each city on each team), representing respectively DTU (Danish University of Technology), CBS (Copenhagen Business School) and a maximum of two Chinese Universities that will participate in the challenge. As only 6 students from each university can participate, students should email the course coordinator a max. 3 page application including the student’s: curriculum, business experience, interdisciplinary and intercultural skills as well as motivation and personal skills.

The teams will work on their challenge for 3 weeks in Copenhagen and 3 weeks in Beijing, respectively followed by a 3-week period theoretically reflecting on the innovation project and a final exam based on a miniproject. The challenge will give students course credit for participation. The university partners from both cities will alternately facilitate the students’ work through general and project specific lectures, workshops, coaching, on-line programs and so forth. The teams will present their final result to a jury through description of the innovation in a business case report and a video presentation.

One overall winner of the competition will be elected with special mentions given to the innovation performance, teamwork, best pitch, video, etc. The winning team will be offered a business case implementation internship enabling them to continue their work with a business partner involved in the challenge.

Based on the group project results in the urban challenge the students in the period after the presentation develop a miniproject that reflect theoretically on the project content and results. The miniproject will form the basis for an individual oral exam
Expected literature
Todorovic, Marija S. (2012) BPS, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources for buildings greening and zero energy cities planning. Harmony and ethics of sustainability, Energy and Buildings 48  180–189
Vettorato et al (2011) Spatial comparison of renewable energy supply and energy demand
for low-carbon settlements. Cities 28, 557–566
Stremke, Sven; Koh, Jusuck.(2010) Ecological concepts and strategies with relevance to energy-conscious spatial planning and design.  Environment & Planning B: Planning & Design, Vol. 37 Issue 3, p518-532
Sabine Barles (2010): Society, energy and materials: the contribution of urban metabolism studies to sustainable urban development issues, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 53:4, 439-455
Milly Tambach & Henk Visscher (2012): Towards Energy-neutral New Housing
Developments. Municipal Climate Governance in The Netherlands, European Planning Studies, 20:1,111-130
Nidumolu, R., 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, M. W. and Suskewicz, J. (2009), “How to jump start the cleantech economy,” Harvard Business Review, November, pp. 52-60.
Simanis, E. and Hart, S. (2009), “Innovation from the inside out,” MIT Sloan Management Review, Summer, pp. 77-86.
Ambec, S. and Lanoie, P. (2008), “Does it pay to be green? A systematic overview,”Academy of Management Perspectives, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 45-62.
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Marshall, R.S. and Brown, D. (2003), "The strategy of sustainability: A systems perspective on environmental initiatives." California Management Review, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 101-126.
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.
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,
Lieberherr-Gardiol, F. (2009). Urban sustainability and governance : issues for the twenty-first century. International Social Science Journal, 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
Jones, R., Kornum, N. (2012-13). Managing the co-created brand: Value and cultural complementarity in online and offline multi stakeholder ecosystems.Journal of Business Research, Forthcoming
Schlange, L.E. (2009). Stakeholder Identification in Sustainability Entrepreneurship The Role of Managerial and Organisational Cognition.Greener Management International, Winter (55), 13–32.
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Neville, B. A. Neville and Menguc, B. (2006), “Stakeholder multiplicity: Toward an understanding of the interactions between stakeholders,”Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 66, No. 4, 377-391.
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Last updated on 01-05-2013