Knowledge and Competitive Advantage

Learning Outcomes

Upon succesful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to illustrate knowledge as a source of competitive advantage; to relate knowledge creation, learning capabilities, and knowledge transfer to strategy formulation and competitive advantage; to apply knowledge management in organizations to support strategy formulation; to analyse knowledge-based innovations applied in companies

Topics

The only certainty in a competitive environment is uncertainty, and one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge. When markets shift, technologies proliferate, competitiors multiply, and products become obsolete almost overnight, succesfull companies are those that consistently create new knowledge, disseminate it into new products, process, and markets. Knowledge and Competitive Advantage course is focusing on the study of knowledge and the capability to create and utilize it as source of competitive advantage. This course introduces the key issues in managing knowledge such as knowledge creation, sharing and its relationship through social capital. This course also covers knowledge as the source of continuous innovation.