This course aims at providing students with the tools and skills required to manage innovation processes in different business contexts. At the end of the course, students will be able to understand the concept of innovation, to promote and design appropriate innovation processes, to exploit the value of innovations in business, public administrations, non-profit organizations and social enterprises.
The course also aims at deepening the link between innovation and entrepreneurship by analyzing the conditions that favor the implementation of innovation processes and related tools both through the creation of new companies and within existing organizations (internal entrepreneurship).
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Formal lectures, discussion of cases, student's presentations, and guest seminars from from invited experienced practitioners.
- Attending students will be assessed on the basis of a group assignment (70% of the final grade) and a 40-minute written exam made up of open-ended (1) and closed-ended (5) questions (30% of the final grade). The grade of the group assignment is valid for only one exam session (June or July), at the choice of the student. It is uploaded on the e-learning page of the course within 2 weeks after the end of classes.
- Non-attending students will be assessed on the basis of a 90-minute written exam made up of open-ended (5) and closed-ended (5) questions.
Open-ended questions are evaluated according to the following criteria:
a) relevance of the answer to the question;
b) thoroughness of the answer;
c) ability to synthesize;
d) appropriacy of language.
Exam results will be uploaded on "sportello internet" and the student will be notified when the grade is available.
• Types of innovation
• Innovation, business models, and competitive advantage
• The innovative process: managerial and organizational aspects
• Social innovation
• Exploitation of innovations
• Business planning
