Course syllabus

Course-PM

TEK296 TEK296 Applied intellectual capital management lp1 HT21 (22.5 hp)

Course is offered by the department of Technology Management and Economics

Contact details

Examiner	Professor Ulf Petrusson (ulf.petrusson@law.gu.se)
Course Manager	Professor Ulf Petrusson (ulf.petrusson@law.gu.se)
Course administrator	Satenik Ataneysan (satenik@chalmers.se)

Course purpose

The course consists of four innovation and entrepreneurship projects linked to four different project environments (project incubators). Each project represents a main perspective on innovation, entrepreneurship and management of intellectual assets.

In a first environment, the student will develop an innovation to help patients within the framework of healthcare organization.
In a second environment, the student should evaluate one academic environment for utilizing research results.
In a third environment, the student should work towards realization of a new idea or equivalent in commercial operations.
In a fourth environment, the student should contribute to a project aimed at equality, gender equality and other social sustainability.

Schedule

Please see Files - Course overview.

Course literature

Please see modules below.

Course design

Structure

The course is mainly focused on applying the main subject area in a real-life context through active project work supported by seminars. Through the practical work the students will get the prerequisites to learn new skills and abelites necessary to develop early innovation projects. The students will also develop their ability to judge and take action in relation to real life scenarios in their respective project, as well as engaging with different stakeholders.

Due to the nature of innovation projects in relation to sensitive information, the universities platform GU Project Accelerator AB is involved as a mediator between the different stakeholders and interests in each specific project.

The structure of the course is divided into the four applied modules, each with specific content and examination. Each module will be outlined under its own sub-chapter below with each respective literature list.

Module – Healthcare Inc.

The purpose of this module is to give students the skills and tools necessary to work practically with innovation projects within Healthcare using user-centric design methods. The overall structure during the one-week sprint is focusing on applying knowledge in real needs-based projects within healthcare, through active participation in student groups. The students will draw insights from design thinking methods and as an additional support everyone can enroll to the free online course “Design Thinking for Innovation” at Coursera, which can be done by joining through the following link:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design-thinking-innovation/home/welcome

The one-week module is an online sprint in collaboration with the Embedded Design Programme at HDK and we will discuss different aspects from this on other lectures. With insights from the online course, our own seminars as well as guest lectures, the students will work on finding solutions to their designated group problem/need. The student groups will be assigned a mentor during the work in innovation project to help guide them in relation to the real-life situation and multi-stakeholder situation they are exposed to.

The examination of this module is described in the examination chapter below adds to the assessment portfolio through group work and an individual written hand-in. The module also covers three mandatory seminars.

Main literature in module - Healthcare Inc.

TBA

Module – Research Inc.

The purpose of the course is to give students the skills and tools necessary to work practically with innovation and venture projects at different levels of development, with a particular focus on identification, evaluation, packaging of intellectual assets and property for the development of utilization strategies in early-stage R&D and early-stage technology ventures. The student groups will be assigned a mentor during the work in innovation project to help guide them in relation to the real-life situation and multi-stakeholder situation they are exposed to.

Main literature in module - Research Inc.

Petrusson, U. (2015) Research and utilization (digital copy in Swedish and English uploaded on Canvas). Title of Swedish first edition: “Forskning och Nytta” (Tre Böcker Förlag AB, Göteborg, Sweden, 2015).

Module – Venture Inc.

The purpose of the module is to give students the skills and tools necessary to work practically with innovation and venture projects at different levels of development, with a particular focus on identification, evaluation, packaging of intellectual assets and property for the development of utilization strategies in early-stage R&D and early-stage technology ventures. The student groups will be assigned a mentor during the work in innovation project to help guide them in relation to the real-life situation and multi-stakeholder situation they are exposed to.

Main literature in module - Venture Inc.

Module – Difference Inc.

The purpose of this module is to give students perspectives on social entrepreneurship, especially in relation to equality and diversity. There will be guest lecturers with expertise in this field. Students will take active part in a mandatory seminar and workshop. Preparatory material will be communicated in advanced.

Changes made since the last occasion

The main changes of the course, including last year’s course, is the adaption of the course according to the restrictions of the current ongoing pandemic Covid-19. The course is usually heavily campus oriented but has shifted to a format where many interactions are made through video-conference, such as Zoom. The hope is however to be able to carry out as many on-campus sessions as possible with concern to Covid restrictions and Chalmer’s recommendations for the safety of all students and staff. Also, there have been a shift in the set-up of the Healthcare Inc module, that now will be performed as a one-week sprint, in collaboration the master’s programme in Embedded design at HDK. The number of weeks for the different modules have thereby changed, where we now have one and a half week of Healthcare, half a week of Difference, six weeks of Research and seven weeks of Venture.

Learning objectives and syllabus

Learning objectives:

1.    Demonstrate skills in identifying and assessing potential intellectual assets, in particular, technology and IPR assets
2.    Demonstrate skills in analyzing strategic technology positions in relation to existing and potential scientific/technological, intellectual property, and market positions
3.    Demonstrate skills in applying relevant methods and tools in challenge-based innovation processes
4.    Demonstrate ability to manage multiple stakeholder personalities across different innovation contexts
5.    Demonstrate skills in evaluating the commercial potential of early-stage innovations and ventures
6.    Demonstrate skills in developing and visualizing hybrid utilization strategies
7.    Demonstrate ability to make ethically responsible choices when packaging or visualizing intellectual assets into physical, virtual, or intellectual properties or services

Link to the syllabus on Studieportalen.

Study plan

Examination form

The examination is based on an assessment portfolio covering the modules Healthcare, Research and Venture, with the addition of Mandatory seminars from all four modules.

The six parts of the Assessment Portfolio are outlined in the following table:

Title	Type	Module	Date
Project Presentation	Group Work	Healthcare	September 14th
Project Presentation	Group Work	Research	October 22nd
Project Presentation	Group Work	Venture	December 17th
Reflection Report	Individual Hand-in	Research	January 10th
Reflection Report	Individual Hand-in	Venture	January 10th

The ten Mandatory Seminars are outlined in the following table:

Title	Module	Date
Design Thinking Sprint	Healthcare	September 8th-14th
Challenge driven social innovation	Difference	September 15th-16th
IAM for public value creation	Research	September 20th
IA Capture	Research	September 21st
Positioning on Knowledge Markets	Research	October 4th
Utilization & Organize	Research	October 11th
Venture context 1	Venture	November 1st
Venture context 2	Venture	November 2nd

Grades

The final grade is based 40% on group work and 60% on the individual hand-in, as well as a pass on all mandatory seminars.

Grade	Assessment Portfolio
U/F	0-39 %
3	40-59 %
4	60-79 %
5	80-100 %