Course syllabus
Course-PM
TEK960 TEK960 Technology innovation and compliance lp4 VT26 (7.5 hp)
Course is offered by the department of Technology Management and Economics
Contact details
Examiner Ulf Petrusson (ulf.petrusson@law.gu.se)
Course leader Christoffer Hermansson (christoffer.hermansson@law.gu.se)
Course team Staffan Johansson (staffan.@johansson.3@law.gu.se)
Course administrator Carina Jogevik (carina.jogevik@chalmers.se)
Please post all the course-related questions on the course's page on Canvas or contact Staffan Johansson or Christoffer Hermansson.
Course purpose
The purpose of the course is to give the student the skills and tools necessary to create and manage strategies for open innovation and network-based markets from both a technology development and commercialization perspective.
Schedule
The schedule can be found in Files - Course admin. This is a combined schedule for TEK960 and the law course HRS087 Innovation Law (15hp) at University of Gothenburg. Please note that this schedule combines the Chalmers and GU TimeEdit of both courses, with some modifications.
Due to the collaboration with the law course a number of guest lectures are also provided outside the Chalmers block schedule. The purpose with said lectures is to add on practical perspectives from practitioners closely linked to the education. This is also an opportunity for students to interact with practitioners in the relevant field.
Please also note that the schedule is preliminary and additional lectures, for ex. guest lectures will be added. Guest lectures will also be flexible and might be re-scheduled on short notice, to accommodate the busy schedules of the professionals joining the course.
Updates to the schedule will be announced via Canvas Announcement and with an updated schedule version und er Files - Course admin.
Course literature
Books:
Arthur, W. Brian. The Nature of Technology – What it is and how it evolves. Penguin Books.
Petrusson, U. (2015) Research and utilization (will be published on Canvas). Title of Swedish first edition: “Forskning och Nytta”, Tre Böcker Förlag AB, Göteborg, Sweden, 2015.
Chesbrough, H. Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm. Oxford. 2006.
Additional course material posted on the Canvas page, including:
Articles and documents
Compilation of articles
Compilation of public documents, legal acts, preparatory works etc.
Course design
Content
The purpose of the course is to give students a theoretical and practical understanding to be able to define, establish and design business and utilization strategies for open innovation. The course focuses on the identification, development and distribution of knowledge as a key resource for value creation, as well as identifying various business logics and value creation models where individual and collective knowledge generates value and strong positions in network-based collaboration and network structures.
Organisation
The teaching is conducted through lectures and seminars with a focus on theoretical knowledge in combination with practical understanding, for example, case studies and exchange of experience with guest lecturers from relevant areas. The case studies are based on different models of open innovation processes and utilization processes in which students work in interdisciplinary study groups.
Course evaluation
The course will be evaluated upon completion. The results of the evaluation will be communicated to the students and will function as a guide for the development of the course.
The student representatives for the course will be announced - please convey your comments to them to be included in the formal course evaluation meetings.
Learning objectives and syllabus
Learning objectives:
- Define and explain the basic characteristics of open knowledge platforms and how they can contribute to establish and develop knowledge exchange.
- Explain and critically discuss how to establish, develop and manage controlled openness in collaboration.
- Explain and critically discuss how open innovation processes in public-private collaboration can generate societal values.
- Identify and implement de facto and formal standards as part of marketing and business strategies.
- On legal basis construct and manage intellectual property as building blocks for standards and open knowledge- and innovation platforms.
- Design and manage structural control of collaborative- and market structures based on open innovation processes and standards.
- Evaluate how open innovation models and strategies forms a basis for the creation, development and management of knowledge-based business and utilization processes
Link to the syllabus on Studieportalen:
Examination form
Examination
The examination is based upon two team-based assignments and a final individual assignment. Also, there is mandatory attendance on presentation seminars (minimum half of the presentation).
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Examination Activities |
Points (max) |
Due |
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Case 1A, group work, written hand in |
20 |
April 23rd |
|
Case 2A, group work, written hand in |
20 |
May 21st |
|
Case 2B, individual work, written hand-in |
40 |
June 3rd |
|
Participation presentation Case 1A |
Pass |
April 23rd |
|
Participation presentation Case 2A |
Pass |
May 21st |
|
SUM (max) |
80 |
|
Seminars
The seminars are given by individuals from Chalmers University of Technology, University of Gothenburg, and guest lecturers with theoretical knowledge and practical experience within open innovation, network markets, and digital platforms. Attendance at the seminars is highly recommended, as most of the seminars will cover material that is not found in the course literature and will be needed to accomplish the assignments. Active participation by the students is critical to the learning experience.
Group Assignments
The group assignments will be done in interdisciplinary teams and in collaboration as follows:
- Assessment and governance of a research-based innovation
- Management of a technology-based firm
Individual Assignment
The second assignment industry case (Management of a technology-based firm) will be further developed individually into a final individual delivery (labelled 2B, see table above)
Grades
The grading scale for the course is as follows:
0-39% = U/F
40-59% = 3
60-79% =4
80%> = 5
To receive a grade, the student must pass all the examination parts of the course.