30445 - SHARING ECONOMY AND SMART CITIES MANAGEMENT
Course offered to incoming exchange students
Department of Social and Political Sciences
FRANCESCO LONGO
Suggested background knowledge
Mission & Content Summary
MISSION
CONTENT SUMMARY
The program includes 6 different topics (24 lessons):
- Sharing economy and smart cities: a conceptual framework (4 lessons).
- Designing new value proposition for sharing economy and smart cities (2 lessons).
- Enabling technologies for innovation (6 lessons).
- Business development and innovation (2 lessons).
- Case presentation and discussion (6 lessons).
- Group exercise: assessing and developing new value propositions (4 lessons).
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- Present and discuss the sharing economy, smart cities and collaborative networks frameworks, both under a business and public interest perspective.
- Understand the roles that technologies and business models may play for sustainable and pro-social services.
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- Design and evaluate new value proposition based on sharing economy and smart cities models.
- Implement and manage innovation and change in sharing based markets and community environments.
Teaching methods
- Face-to-face lectures
- Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
- Case studies /Incidents (traditional, online)
- Group assignments
DETAILS
The program is based on four different training tools:
- Lectures about theoretical approaches on the issues.
- Extensive case discussion both for sharing economy and smart cities experiences.
- Interviews to sharing economy and smart cities managers and entrepreneurs.
- Group exercises to assess and develop new value proposition for community needs useful both for business and government.
Assessment methods
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ATTENDING STUDENTS
The course grading is based on a written exam (open questions). Attending students receive an individual evaluation calculated as following:
- 70% written exam.
- 30% group project.
NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS
The assessment of non attending students is solely based on their written exam.
Teaching materials
ATTENDING STUDENTS
eBook Sharing economy & smart cities edited by Egea and published on Bboard;
case studies and slides uploaded on Bboard
NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS
A) Paper collection on Sharing economy and smart cities. For the registered students the readings are available on the e-learning platform (https://blackboard.unibocconi.it/)
B) Stephany A. (2015), The Business of Sharing, Making it in the New Sharing Economy, Springer
C) Batty M. (2018), Inventing future cities, The MIT Press.