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Course 2005-2006 a.y.

8168 - INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT


GM-LS - MM-LS - OSI-LS - AFC-LS - CLAPI-LS - CLEFIN-LS - CLELI-LS - CLEACC-LS - DES-LS - CLEMIT-LS - CLG-LS
Department of Management and Technology

Course taught in English


Go to class group/s: 31

GM-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - MM-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - OSI-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - AFC-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLAPI-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLEFIN-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLELI-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLEACC-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - DES-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLEMIT-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLG-LS (6 credits - II sem. - AI)
Course Director:
ALFONSO GAMBARDELLA

Classes: 31 (II sem.)
Instructors:
Class 31: ALFONSO GAMBARDELLA


Course Objectives

This is an advanced course of economics and management of innovation and technology. The course encourages the students to take a critical and analytical approach through the reading, deepening and discussion of papers at the frontier of this literature. The students are asked to read the assigned material before the classes. The lecture is based largely on discussion of the assigned material. In each lecture, a group of students leads the discussion. The exam is a written paper.


Course Content Summary
Part I. Management of innovation and technology in different industries
  • Chemicals
  • Biotechnology
  • Software and Information Technology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Semiconductors
Part II. Management of innovation and technology in different contexts and organizations
  • Large firms
  • Entrepreneurial systems
  • Regional areas
  • Open source models
  • Models based on intellectual property rights
Part III. Management of the incentives to innovate
  • What motivates the inventors to invent?
  • Pecuniary and non-pecuniary incentives to creativity
  • Silicon Valley and New Silicon Valley models
Part IV. Economics and management of the intellectual capital
  • Basic concepts and recent trends
  • Management of patent portfolios
  • How to manage human capital and why is it so difficult to manage it?

Detailed Description of Assessment Methods

Attending students
Written paper based on research, literature and discussions covered during the course.

Non Attending Students
Written exam based on three questions randomly picked on the day of the exam from a list of questions to be distributed by Egea along with the collection of readings.


Textbooks

Attending Students
Selected papers to be distributed during the course

Non attending students
Collection of readings prepared and distributed by Egea

Exam textbooks & Online Articles (check availability at the Library)
Last change 01/07/2005 00:00
 

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