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2016/2017  DIP-DIMAO1002U  Management, Organization and Marketing of Innovation

English Title
Management, Organization and Marketing of Innovation

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 10 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Graduate Diploma
Duration One Semester
Start time of the course Spring
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
Course coordinator
  • Marion Poetz - Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics (INO)
Main academic disciplines
  • Innovation
Last updated on 12-09-2016
Learning objectives
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or errors: After this course, students shall have developed the following knowledge, skills and competences:
  • Distributed sources of innovation and open vs. closed innovation processes and models
  • Inbound, outbound and coupled open innovation processes
  • Organizational antecedents of (open) innovation and organizational designs for (open) innovation
  • Market orientation in innovation projects and open innovation methods and tools
  • Marketing methods and tools for (open) innovation
  • Skills in innovation project management and skills in mastering core organizational challenges in innovation
  • Skills in aligning innovation problems with (open) innovation methods/tools for solving them
  • Skills in market launch and sales of new products and services
  • Searching for knowledge inputs to innovation projects across widely distributed sources
  • Managing knowledge flows for generating innovation across organizational boundaries
  • Assessing, developing and improving an organization’s “fitness” for (open) innovation
  • Aligning innovation activities with the needs of actual and potential customers
Examination
Management, Organization and Marketing of Innovation:
Exam ECTS 10
Examination form Home assignment - written product
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Size of written product Max. 10 pages
Assignment type Project
Duration Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
Grading scale 7-step scale
Examiner(s) Internal examiner and external examiner
Exam period Summer
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
Description of the exam procedure

Project report related to identifying an innovation-related problem within the organizations students are working, drafting an (open) innovation project for it, discussing organizational antecedents that may block or support the implementation of their project and addressing relevant aspects of innovation marketing, developed individually, to be handed in on a predefined date. Students will receive coaching sessions for developing their (open) innovation projects. 

 

Grading will be done according to the learning objectives and the exam evaluation criteria for this course.
Course content and structure

Rapid advances in information and communication technologies, increased technological complexity, increased customer demands, higher labor mobility and shorter product life cycles have triggered new forms of managing, organizing and marketing innovation. These forms can be characterized by being more open, distributed, collaborative, and democratized than traditional models of innovation. More and more companies are experimenting with such new forms in order to leverage widely distributed sources of innovation for their innovation efforts. In this course students will learn about how to manage the exploration of a wide range of internal and external sources for innovative opportunities, how to integrate the results of this exploration with firm capabilities and resources, how to exploit these opportunities through multiple channels, how to develop organizational designs for doing so and how to keep a market orientation throughout the innovation process for reducing market failure of new products or services.  The course is specifically devoted to taking an in-depth look at how innovation can be managed across organizational boundaries and emphasizes the role and value of Open Innovation.

 

The course is divided into three parts and will cover the following topics:

 

Part 1: Managing innovation * Models and processes for open vs. closed innovation * Distributed sources of innovation * The role of users in developing innovation * Open innovation search and collaboration tools * Selected open innovation methods for outbound, inbound and coupled innovation processes (such as e.g., crowdsourcing, lead user method, patenting/licensing, alliances, technological competence leveraging, etc.)

 

Part 2: Organizing for innovation * Organizational antecedents of innovation * Organizational designs for innovation (structural and contextual arrangements) * Organizational inertia and resistance to innovation * Ambidexterity * Incentives for (open) innovation * Absorptive capacity

 

Part 3: Marketing innovation * Reducing the risk of market failure * Generating and launching innovations on the basis of proactive market orientation * Transforming market insights into concepts, prototypes and products/services that meet the demand of future markets * Challenges involved in communicating and promoting innovation * Tools and techniques for market launch and sales of new products and services
Teaching methods
The course will be organized in full-day, workshop-style blocks on weekends and incorporates blended learning elements in preparation for and during the workshops. It applies an interactive and problem-based teaching approach and combines a mix of mini lectures, ad-hoc group work based on mini-exercises, case study analysis, in-class presentations and discussions, and guest speakers. To additionally facilitate the bridging between academic research and practice the course will run as a CBS Studio course and will enable students to also work on questions and challenges from their own work environment.
Student workload
Preparation, teaching and exam 274 hours
- 1 hours
Expected literature

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Last updated on 12-09-2016