Innovation Management

Department
  • Bachelor's program Business & Management
Course unit code
  • B&M-B-4-INM-INM-ILV
Number of ECTS credits allocated
  • 4.0
Name of lecturer(s)
  • Dr. Estèves Natacha, FH-Prof. Dr. Som Oliver, Schrebe Kathrin, B.A. MA, Just Julian, PhD
Mode of delivery
  • -
Recommended optional program components
  • none
Recommended or required reading
  • Required Literature - Part Just
    Dahlander, L., & Gann, D. M. (2010). How open is innovation? Research Policy, 39(6), 699-709.
    Falcke, L., Zobel, A. K., & Comello, S. D. (2024). How firms realign to tackle the grand challenge of climate change: An innovation ecosystems perspective. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 41(2), 403-427.
    Geels, F. W., Sovacool, B., Schwanen, T., & Sorrell, S. (2017). Accelerating innovation is as important as climate policy. Science, 357(6357), 1242-1244.
    Holgersson, M., Dahlander, L., Chesbrough, H., & Bogers, M. L. (2024). Open innovation in the age of AI. California Management Review, 67(1), 5-20.
    Varadarajan, R. (2024). Mitigating the definitional quagmire in innovation research: An inclusive definition of innovation as a template for defining various types of innovations uniformly. Journal of Product Innovation Management.
    Vargo, S. L., Akaka, M. A., & Wieland, H. (2020). Rethinking the process of diffusion in innovation: A service-ecosystems and institutional perspective. Journal of Business Research, 116, 526-534.
    Wesseling, J. H., Bidmon, C., & Bohnsack, R. (2020). Business model design spaces in socio-technical transitions: The case of electric driving in the Netherlands. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 154, Article 119950.




    Required Literature - Part Schrebe
    Baron, Robert. (2006). Opportunity Recognition as Pattern Recognition: How Entrepreneurs ‘Connect the Dots' to Identify New Business Opportunities, Academy of Management Perspectives. 20. 104-119. 10.5465/AMP.2006.19873412
    Bojinov, Iavor, David Holtz, Ramesh Johari, Sven Schmit, and Martin Tingley. (2025) "Want Your Company to Get Better at Experimentation? Learn Fast by Democratizing Testing." Harvard Business Review 103, no. 1 (January-February 2025): 96-103.
    Brown, Tim (2008): Design Thinking. In: Harvard Business Review. Available online https://readings.design/PDF/Tim%20Brown,%20Design%20Thinking.pdf
    Camburn, B., Viswanathan, V., Linsey, J., Anderson, D., Jensen, D., Crawford, R., … Wood, K. (2017). Design prototyping methods: state of the art in strategies, techniques, and guidelines. Design Science, 3, e13. doi:10.1017/dsj.2017.10
    Christensen, C. M., Hall, T., Dillon, K., & Duncan, D. S. (2016). Know your customers' jobs to be done. Harvard business review, 94(9), 54-62.
    Mark A. Runco & Garrett J. Jaeger (2012) The Standard Definition of Creativity, Creativity Research Journal, 24:1, 92-96, DOI: 10.1080/10400419.2012.650092
    Mark A. Runco (09 Dec 2024): The discovery and innovation of AI does not qualify as creativity, Journal of Cognitive Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2024.2436362
    Wedell-Wedellsborg, T. (2017). Are you solving the right problems. Harvard Business Review, 95(1), 76-83.




    Required Literature - Part Esteves
    Ehrnsperger JF, Tietze F (2019) Patent pledges, open IP, or patent pools? Developing taxonomies in the thicket of terminologies. PLoS ONE 14(8): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221411&type=printableFischer, W. Theories of Intellectual Property (2001). Originally published in Stephen Munzer, ed., New Essays in the Legal and Political Theory of Property (Cambridge University Press, 2001). Available here: https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/tfisher/iptheory.pdf
    Tesla's Blog: All our Patents belong to you (2014): https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
    Toyota's Blog: Toyota Promotes Global Vehicle Electrification by Providing Nearly 24,000 Licenses Royalty-Free (2019) https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/27512455.html
    WIPO, What is Intellectual Property? https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_450_2020.pdfRecommended Literature Part Just:

    Abrahamson, E. (1991). Managerial fads and fashions: The diffusion and rejection of innovations. Academy of Manage-ment Review, 16(3), 586-612.
    Ahn, J. M., Roijakkers, N., Fini, R., & Mortara, L. (2019). Leveraging open innovation to improve society: past achieve-ments and future trajectories. R&D Management, 49(3), 267-278.
    Boudreau, K. J., & Lakhani, K. R. (2013). Using the crowd as an innovation partner. Harvard Business Review, 91(4), 60-9.
    Henderson, R. M., & Clark, K. B. (1990). Architectural innovation: The reconfiguration of existing product technologies and the failure of established firms. Administrative Science Quarterly, 9-30.
    Nambisan, S., Lyytinen, K., Majchrzak, A., & Song, M. (2017). Digital innovation management. MIS Quarterly, 41(1), 223-238.


    Recommended Literature Part ESTEVES
    Burk, Dan L., "On the Sociology of Patenting" (2016). Minnesota Law Review. 143. https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mlr/143/

    Lemley, Mark A., Faith-Based Intellectual Property (2015). 62 UCLA L. REV. 1328 (2015), Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2587297, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2587297 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2587297

    Castaldi, C., Giuliani, E., Kyle, M., Nuvolari, A. (2024) Are intellectual property rights working for society?, Re-search Policy, Volume 53, Issue 2, 2024. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733323002202

    Part Schrebe
    Baldassarre, B., Calabretta, G., Bocken, N. M. P., & Jaskiewicz, T. (2017). Bridging sustainable business model innovation and user-driven innovation: A process for sustainable value proposition design. Journal of Cleaner Production,147, 175-186
    Gassmann, O., Frankenberger, K., Csik, M. (2014). Revolutionizing the Business Model. In: Gassmann, O., Schweitzer, F. (eds) Management of the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01056-4_7
    Geissdoerfer, Martin; Savaget, Paulo; Evans, Steve (2017): The Cambridge Business Model Innovation Process. In: Procedia Manufacturing 8, S. 262-269. DOI: 10.1016/j.promfg.2017.02.033.
Level of course unit
  • Bachelor
Year of study
  • Spring 2025
Semester when the course unit is delivered
  • 4
Language of instruction
  • English
Learning outcomes of the course unit
  • Students require a basic understanding in innovation management and the role of entrepreneurs and leaders in national and international environment. Furthermore, students learn about a selection of tools and instruments of strategic and operative innovation management and how to apply them in practice.
Course contents
  • • Approach and problem of innovation management
    • Definitions of key concepts
    • Types and scope of innovations
    • Product, process and service innovations
    • Consequences for the management
    • The driving forces behind innovations
    • Innovation process
    • Innovation strategies
    • Sources of innovations
    • Innovation-friendly organizations
    • Methods, tools and instruments of operative innovation management
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
  • The course comprises an interactive mix of lectures, discussions and individual and group work.
Work placement(s)
  • none

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