The course is taught in English and the evaluation will be in English.
Contenuto del corso
The course is centred on the role of innovation for the generation of new products/markets/industries, with a specific focus on the digital revolution and innovations.
The first part is devoted to frontal lessons on fundamentals concepts of innovation. The second part presents case studies and discuss them among students. The third part focuses on group project work on the analysis and investigation of a specific case of an innovation.
Book's chapters, articles and lecture slides are available in Moodle:
- Dodgson, M., Gann, D. M., & Salter, A. (2008). The management of technological innovation: strategy and practice. Oxford University Press on Demand. Chapter 1-5.
- Chesbrough, H. W. (2006). The era of open innovation. MIT Sloan Management Review, 127(3), 34-41.
- Chesbrough H., and Bogers M. (2014), Explicating Open Innovation. In Chesbrough, H. Vanhaverbeke, W. and West, J. (20914), (eds). New Frontiers in Open Innovation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Chapter 2, ‘Networks, innovation and clusters’, extracted and translated from Capone F., (2016), Open Innovation, strategie e dinamiche relazionali, Giappichelli. Excluded paragraphs: 2.5, 4.1, 4.3. Read paragraph 3.1.
- Porter, M. E. (1998). Clusters and the new economics of competition (Vol. 76, No. 6, pp. 77-90). Boston: Harvard Business Review.
Case Study materials: A Course Pack has to be acquired from Harvard Business Publishing Education. Information are available in Moodle or can be requested via email.
https://hbsp.harvard.edu/import/1164670
Articles and materials should be read compulsory before the lessons as case study discussion is part of the teaching.
Readings (available in Moodle) (Compulsory for not attending students):
- Capone, F., Zampi, V., & Innocenti, N. (2018). How do R&D project networks support the adoption of open innovation practice?. Sinergie, Italian Journal of Management, 106.
- Capone F. (2020). Follow your passion. Passion and resilience in the surfing industry. The entrepreneurial case of Roberto Ricci Designs. In: Perna A., Baraldi E., Guercini S.. Passion and Entrepreneurship, pp. 195-215, London: Springer.
Obiettivi Formativi
At the end of these modules the students should be able to:
- Understand and analyse the typologies, context, sources and patterns of innovation;
- Understand the role of collaborations, open context and localities for innovation;
- Understand the elements that contribute to innovation success
- Identify the impediments to innovation
- Apply theoretical concepts to real cases and discuss implications;
- Present and discuss a case study of real innovation.
The course aims to:
- Strengthen students’ understanding on innovation processes
- Prepare students to work effectively within an innovation context
- Increase students own personal career success
Prerequisiti
For Italian students: It is advised to have passed ''Imprenditorialità e Innovazione'.
For Erasmus students is compulsory to be enrolled in a Master Degree.
For Bachelor degree students please refer to the 'Social Innovation' course in the degree Sustainable Business: https://www.susbus.unifi.it/
Metodi Didattici
- Lectures
- Presentation and discussion of case studies
- Project works laboratory
- Project work presentation and discussion
Modalità di verifica apprendimento
Attending students:
- Attendance/Participation in class (10%)
- Presentation and discussion of the project work (30%)
- Final written test (multiple choices + open questions) (60%)
Not attending students:
- Final written test (multiple choices + open questions)
Programma del corso
The course is centred on the role of innovation for the generation of new products/markets/industries, with a specific focus on the digital revolution and digital innovations.
The course is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to frontal lessons on fundamentals concept of innovation. A second part will present several case studies and raise a discussion among the students to deepen the themes of the course.
The third part of the course focuses on group project work. The project work will be devoted to the analysis and investigation of a specific case of an innovation. Project works will be presented and discussed in class by groups of students.
- What is Innovation?
- Patterns: Open innovation vs closed innovation/Open innovation 2.0;
- Context: NIS, RIS, Technological clusters and geography of innovation;
- Networks: innovators and inventors;
- Sources: R&D, patents, User innovation and user entrepreneurship;
- Organizational culture for innovation, Group /individual decision makings, the role of conflicts;
- Business models innovation;
- I40 and digital revolution;
- Insights: High technology and cultural heritage;
- Social networks analysis and data analytics (tbc).
Case studies analysis and discussion on: Tesla, Kindle Fire, Dropbox, Google, Netflix, etc.