Course 2008-2009 a.y.
8184 - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT
MM-LS - AFC-LS - CLAPI-LS - CLEFIN-LS - CLELI-LS - DES-LS - CLG-LS - M-LS - IM-LS - ACME-LS - EMIT-LS
Course taught in English
Go to class group/s: 31
The course aims at highlighting both th role that R&D activities may play to contribute to the competitiveness of industrial firms and what are the peculiarities of R&D management.
Actually, in the last years, the R&D management has faced a lot of changes, that have also determined relevant implications on the competences required to the managers of this department.
During the course, classes are integrated by cases discussions and companies presentations.
Some issues and managerial tools are deployed. Particularly:
- the role of R&D in the process of industrial innovation
- approaches to R&D strategies formulation
- the selection of R&D projects
- the ways of technological acquisition
- "time" in R&D management
- the organization of R&D department
- centralization versus decentralization
- the management of R&D global networks
- the delinking of R from D
- national and super-national R&D systems
Attending students:
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Written Exam
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Final teamwork.
Non attending students:
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Written exam.
Attendind students:
Materials are available in the Learning Space, as well as corporate studies.
Non attending students:
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V. CHIESA, R&D Strategy and Organization, Managing Technical Change in Dynamic Contexts, Imperial College Press, 2001
Materials are available in the Learning Space, as well as corporate studies.