- Docente: Rosa Grimaldi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-IND/35
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Energy Engineering (cod. 0924)
Learning outcomes
Competencies on the basic quantitative tools to address economic and financial analysis for decision making processes within corporate contexts. Foundations of Intellectual Property Rights and basics of Knowledge Transfer from research to the market
Course contents
The course has two main objectives: a) develop the basic
skills to understand how a company works, through the analysis of
accounting systems; b) develop the skills to understand how
technology innovation unfolds within companies and how to implement
it successfully at both product innovation and process innovation
levels.
Structure
A) Setting the framework
B) Balance Sheet and Income Statement
C) Cost analysis for decision making
D) Decision making techniques for hort term
alternatives
E) Long term decisions: the analysis of investment
F) Technology innovation and its dynamics
G) Intellectual Property Rights
Readings/Bibliography
R.N. Anthony, D.M. Macrì, L.K. Pearlman, Il Bilancio. Strumento di analisi per la gestione (terza edizione), McGraw-Hill, Milano 2004. (escluso capp. 9 e 10)
R.N. Anthony, D.F. Hawkins, D.M. Macrì, K.A. Merchant, Sistemi di controllo di gestione: analisi economiche per le decisioni aziendali (terza edizione), McGraw-Hill, Milano 2004. (capp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, 16).
M. Shilling, Gestione dell'Innovazione (seconda edizione), McGraw-Hill, Milano 2009 (capp. 2,3,9).
Assessment methods
The final exam will include: a) 2 exercises, one on the balance sheet and one on management accounting; b) 2 open questions on 'managing innovation' part; c) 15 multiple choices.
Office hours
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