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12563 - Economics and Management of Innovation

Academic Year 2022/2023

                
                        Docente:
                        Marco Corsino
                    
                        Credits:
                        8
                    
                        SSD:
                        SECS-P/08
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Rimini
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Business Economics (cod. 8848)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

This course offers students the theoretical instruments to study and understand the sources, types, and impact of innovation. At the end of this course, students will be able to: assess the critical aspects related to technological innovation, organizational innovation, and management practices; manage the innovation process by identifying the critical success factors; implement the mechanisms which allow the protection of tangible and intangible resources involved in the innovation process.

Course contents

PART 1. INDUSTRY DYNAMICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

Sources of innovation

Types and patterns of innovation

Standards battles, modularity, and platform competition

Timing of entry

PART 2. FORMULATING TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION STRATEGY

Defining the Organization’s Strategic Direction

Choosing Innovation Projects

Collaboration strategies

Protecting innovation

PART 3. IMPLEMENTING TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION STRATEGY

Organizing for innovation

Managing the new product development process

Managing the new product development team

Crafting a deployment strategy

Readings/Bibliography

Schilling M.A., Izzo F. 2022. Gestione dell'innovazione, V Edizione. McGraw-Hill Education: Milano

Teaching methods

Lectures, individual work to carry out in class, teamworks

Assessment methods

Exam enrolment

Registration to the exam is compulsory: students must register through the platform AlmaEsami in the time window (15 days) during which registrations are open. Students not registered in AlmaEsami will not be admitted to the exam. The teacher will not take into account requests of registration received after the deadline of the enrolment period.

Structure of full exam:

Written exam (to be held in the Lab)
30 multiple-choice questions
Time available: 35 minutes
Each correct answer assigns 1 point

Evaluation grid

<18 Insufficient
18-23 Sufficient
24-27 Good
28-30 Great
30 cum laude Excellent

To pass the exam students must correctly answer at least 18 questions.

Grade rejection
Students can reject the grade obtained at the exam only once. To this end, he/she must email a request to the instructor within the date set for registration. If the grade is rejected, the student must retake the full exam. The instructor will confirm reception of the request within the same date.

Teaching tools

Tools available through the platform"Virtuale"

Office hours

See the website of Marco Corsino