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2023/2024  MA-MMBAO1105U  Innovation

English Title
Innovation

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 4 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Part Time Master
Duration One Semester
Start time of the course Autumn, Spring
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for Master of Business Administration
Course coordinator
  • Jesper Rangvid - Department of Finance (FI)
Main academic disciplines
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Innovation
Teaching methods
  • Face-to-face teaching
Last updated on 30-06-2023

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Learning objectives
To achieve the grade 12 the participants should be able to:
  • Identify, Conceptualize and Evaluate Business Opportunities
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the uniqueness of Entrepreneurial Management
  • Demonstrate an ability to apply entrepreneurial management techniques to the launch and roll out of innovative projects
  • Demonstrate an understanding of desirable traits of entrepreneurs
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the drivers of corporate entrepreneurship
Examination
Innovation:
Exam ECTS 4
Examination form Home assignment - written product
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Size of written product Max. 15 pages
Assignment type Project
Release of assignment Subject chosen by students themselves, see guidelines if any
Duration Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
Grading scale 7-point grading scale
Examiner(s) One internal examiner
Exam period Winter and Winter
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
A written case assignment based on a case or a subject chosen by the
teacher. The assignment must be formulated and given to the students at least nine days prior to the expiration of the deadline. It should be 15 pages long and submitted to CBS Digital Exam. The exam is held internally, and the assignment is put forward and assessed by the relevant faculty.

The make-up/re-examination can be held as an oral examination if the number of registered candidates for the make-up examination/re-take examination warrants that it may most appropriately be held as an oral examination.
Course content, structure and pedagogical approach

Innovation has become an increasingly crucial ingredient in value generation and development of organizations. 

Entrepreneurship has been defined as the pursuit of value creating opportunities beyond the resources currently controlled. Depending on the type of value creating opportunity and the organizational setting  in which the opportunity is pursued a distinction is made between start-up entrepreneurship, social and impact  entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship. Since most entrepreneurial ventures contains a relevant element of innovation, from an outcome perspective there is not much difference between Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The difference mainly lie in the management approach and techniques applied. The course will deal with entrepreneurial management from a variety of perspectives; Theoretically, Methodologically and from an application perspective.

 

Entrepreneurship and innovation is a key element in economic development. The course is delivered in one of the biggest and fastest growing economies in the world namely India, more specifically in SDA Bocconi Asia Center in Powai Valley, Mumbai.

 

The course will make use of variety of methods to illustrate entrepreneurial management theory and practice: Lectures, Case Discussions, and Company Visits and Guest Speakers. Since the Indian context, a developing country, is different from the context in which most participants operate, the course will also offer the possibility to reflect on the different managerial approaches to opportunity pursuit. 
Questions that will be answered in the course are:

 

• What is distinct about an entrepreneurial management approach to innovation?

• Why is entrepreneurship and innovation relevant also for existing corporations?
• What makes some managers and employees more innovative and entrepreneurial than others?
• What specific techniques exsist that allow the entrepreneurial management team to manage the risk associated with an innovation project?
• How can organizations stimulate and direct the innovation and entrepreneurial activities of the corporation?
• How do we manage a project “entrepreneurially”?
• What are the “tools” that companies can use to come up with ideas for innovation
Description of the teaching methods
The course will make use of variety of methods to illustrate entrepreneurial management theory and practice:
Lectures, Case Discussions, and Company Visits and Guest Speakers. Since the Indian context, a developing country, is different from the context in which most participants operate, the course will also offer the possibility to reflect on the different managerial approaches to opportunity pursuit.
Feedback during the teaching period
The feedback
Feedback is given to the student together with the grade when written exam has been evaluated.

The evaluation
At the evaluation unit at CBS’s Economic & Analysis department we ask you to evaluate the overall course. In other words if there has been exercise classes and lectures the evaluation should include both. We evaluate every course and faculty to secure and strengthen the professional level of the offered course.
Student workload
Lectures 20 hours
Preparation + Exam 90 hours
Study Trip 48 hours
Expected literature

Syllabus will be available, well in time, before the first session.
Last updated on 30-06-2023