Insegnamento a.a. 2014-2015

20349 - TECHNIQUES FOR INNOVATION MANAGEMENT


CLMG - M - IM - MM - AFC - CLAPI - CLEFIN-FINANCE - CLELI - ACME - DES-ESS - EMIT

Department of Management and Technology

Course taught in English

Go to class group/s: 31
CLMG (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - M (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - IM (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - MM (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - AFC (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - CLAPI (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - CLEFIN-FINANCE (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - CLELI (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - ACME (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - DES-ESS (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - EMIT (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08)
Course Director:
ALFONSO GAMBARDELLA

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


Course Objectives

This course provides the students with basic tools and methods to produce empirical evidence to support decision-making processes in firms. Since these methods are particularly common in the analysis of innovation and new product development, topics in this area represent the leading example of the course. As a result, the tools of the course can be useful in a large number of settings or situations.


Course Content Summary

  • Testing hypothesis using tables, figures or "stories".
  • Assessing causality relationships in firms, demand of new products or innovation analyses.
  • The use of natural experiments to evaluate innovation or new product development projects.
  • Other approaches to the evaluation of innovation or new product development projects.
  • How to best select your sample for innovation studies and related decision-making.
  • The anaysis of the survival of innovation projects.

Detailed Description of Assessment Methods

For non attending students

Written exam.

For attending students

The evaluation of the attending students is based on a series of assignments consisting in short empirical projects produced in groups and presented in class. 

 


Textbooks

For non attending students

  • J. WOOLRIDGE, Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, Thomson, 4 ed.
  • A. FIELD, G. HOLE, How to Design and Report Experiments, Sage, 2003.
  • Course Handouts and Slides.

For attending students

  • J. WOOLRIDGE, Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, Thomson, 4 ed. 
  • A. FIELD, G. HOLE, How to Design and Report Experiments, Sage, 2003.
  • Course Handouts and Slides.
Exam textbooks & Online Articles (check availability at the Library)
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