ADVANCED INNOVATION MANAGEMENT (4 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of the course students will be able to: Critically analyse tools and frameworks for building a more comprehensive view of innovation management and for advancing a culture of innovation, theorise and evaluate disruptive technologies and disruptive innovation and what this means for modern enterprise, theorise and reflect about processes for delivering improved innovation performance and critically analyse capability development within the context of exploring and exploiting strategic innovation opportunities, strategically review the role of open innovation from an outside-in and inside-out perspective, and emonstrate the effective application of theories, tools and frameworks to case study and other real-world settings.

Topics:

The topics in this course include the following: Introduction to advanced innovation management and enterprise growth, role of innovation for clusters, regions and nations, processes behind sustaining innovation outcomes including development, application, commercialisation and diffusion, managing product and process innovation within firms, the growth of service innovation, strategic innovation, leadership and ambidextrous organisations, open innovation and networks, and market adoption and technology diffusion.

Pre-requisite: None