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TEK296 Applied intellectual capital management lp1 HT22 (22.5 hp)

Course is offered by the department of Technology Management and Economics

Formal information

Title	Applied Intellectual Capital Management
Course code	TEK296
Main field of studies	Entrepreneurship and Business Design
Examiners	Professor Ulf Petrusson
Course Manager	Christoffer Hermansson christoffer.hermansson@gu.se Anna Holmberg Borkmann anna.holmberg.borkmann@gu.se
Project Manager	Christoffer Hermansson christoffer.hermansson@gu.se Anna Holmberg Borkmann anna.holmberg.borkmann@gu.se
Course administrator	Carina Jogevik carina.jogevik@chalmers.se

 

This course is offered in a collaboration between;

• Department of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology, and
• Department of Law at University of Gothenburg.

Purpose

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

 

The second environment is run as part of both the first and forth environment.

Organization

This course is part of second year of the ICM track at the Master’s Programme Entrepreneurship and Business Design and is delivered by the Department technology management and economics at Chalmers in collaboration with Department of Law at the University of Gothenburg.

Since the course is utilizing real life projects the GU Project Accelerator AB is also involved to secure correct management of sensitive knowledge assets and external partners.

Learning outcomes

#	After completing the course the students will be able to
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 design thinking 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.

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 1 – Research Inc. (RINC)

The purpose of the module is to give students the skills and tools necessary to work practically with early-stage R&D and research with a particular focus on identification, evaluation, packaging of intellectual assets and property for the development of utilization strategies. 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 four mandatory seminars.

Main literature in RINC

Petrusson, U. (2015) Research and utilization. (ebook at cip.gu.se).  Title of Swedish first edition: “Forskning och Nytta” (Tre Böcker Förlag AB, Göteborg, Sweden, 2015).

Module 2 – Healthcare Inc. (HINC)

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 focus is 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.

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 HINC.

Liedtka, J. & Oglivie, T. (2011) Designing for growth, A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers, Columbia Business School Publishing.

Recommended literature – HINC.

Bate, P. & Robert, G. (2006) Experience-based design: from redesigning the system around the patient to co-designing services with the patient, BMJ Quality & Safety 2006;15:307-310.

Carlgren. L., Elmquist M. & Rauth, I. (2016). “The Challenges of Using Design Thinking in Industry – Experience from Five Large Firms.” Creativity and Innovation Management Vol. 25 (3): 344-362.

Carlgren, L., Rauth, I. & Elmquist, M. (2016) Framing Design Thinking: The Concept in Idea and Enactment. Creativity and Innovation Management. 25. 38-57. 10.1111/caim.12153.

Donetto, S., Pierri, P., Tsianakas, V. & Robert, G. (2015) “Experience-based Co-design and Healthcare Improvement: Realizing Participatory Design in the Public Sector”, The Design Journal 18. Page 227-248.

Glenngård, A (2017) "The Swedish Health Care System”

Kahneman, D. (2011) Thinking, Fast and Slow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Kolko, J. (2014) Design Thinking Comes of Age, Harvard Business Review.

Rauth, I., Carlgren, L. & Elmquist, M. (2014) Making It Happen: Legitimizing Design Thinking in Large Organizations. Design Management Journal. 9.

Roberts, J., Fisher, T. R., Trowbridge, M. & Bent, C. (2016) A design thinking framework for healthcare management and innovation. Healthcare, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 11-14.

Searl, M. M., Borgi, L., & Chemali, Z. (2010). It is time to talk about people: a human-centered healthcare system. Health research policy and systems, 8, 35. doi:10.1186/1478-4505-8-35.

Wylie, I. (2017). ‘Design thinking’: Does it live up to the hype? [online] Financial Times. Available at: https://www.ft.com/content/a961cada-a520-11e7-8d56-98a09be71849 [Accessed 3 Nov. 2017].

Module 3 – Difference Inc. (DINC)

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, in the form of a Workshop.

Module 4 – Venture Inc. (VINC)

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.

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 two mandatory seminars.

Main literature in module 3 - Venture Inc.

Petrusson, U. (2015) Research and utilization. (ebook at cip.gu.se).  Title of Swedish first edition: “Forskning och Nytta” (Tre Böcker Förlag AB, Göteborg, Sweden, 2015).

Examination summary

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

Title	Type	Module	Date
Project Presentation	Group Work	RINC-HINC	October 14th
Project Presentation	Group Work	VINC-HINC	December 16th
Reflection Report	Individual Hand-in	RINC-HINC	January 9th
Reflection Report	Individual Hand-in	VINC-HINC	January 9th

 

Mandatory Seminars are outlined in the following table:

Title	Module	Date
Challenge driven social innovation	DINC	See separate schedule
IAM for public value creation and IA Capture	RINC-HINC	September 5th
Positioning on Knowledge Markets	RINC-HINC	September 19th
Organize and compliance	RINC-HINC	October 3rd
Venture context 1	VINC-HINC	November 15th
Venture context 2	VINC-HINC	November 17th

Grades

The final grade encompasses 40% group work and 60& individual hand-ins, as well as a pass on all mandatory seminars.

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

Staff involved

Lecturer (initials)	Title	Experience & expertise
Anna Holmberg Borkmann (AHB)	Lawyer, teacher (GU)	Intellectual property law, business creation, ethics, entrepreneurship
Christoffer Hermansson (CH)	Lawyer, teacher (GU)	Intellectual property law, business creation, ethics, entrepreneurship
Linus Plym Forshell	PhD in molecular biology and business development manager (PRV)	Patent information analytics
Richard Essung	Manager (Konsert)	Business analytics and technology development
Ulf Petrusson (UP)	Professor, Examiner	Intellectual property law, business creation, ethics, entrepreneurship

Course evaluation and development

The course will have one or several student course representative(s). They act as eyes and ears of the student group and communicate with the course faculty. During and after the course they will participate in meetings with the faculty. Notes from these meetings will be published on Canvas.

At the end of the course an on-line questionnaire will be sent out to all course participants. In order to have useful course feedback it is important that everyone responds to the questionnaire. The questionnaire will act as basis for the final course evaluation meeting, where course management and student representative(s) will be present.

Changes since last time

This year HINC will be run as part of RINC and VINC.

Schedule

The schedule is outlined in a separate Excel table and covers both the activities in this course as well as the activities in the parallel course TEK300 Advanced Intellectual Capital Management Theory. The schedule is communicated to the students via email as well as uploaded to Canvas. Any updates are communicated both via email and Canvas.