Courses Bachelor Display 2024-2025

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Course title Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation
Course code EBC2068
ECTS credits 6,5
Assessment Whole/Half Grades
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
5 14-4-2025 8-6-2025 X X
Level Intermediate
Coordinator Simon Kleinert
For more information: s.kleinert@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
Technological change and innovation have to be managed by firms. In this course we will explore what main challenges firms face in their technological change and innovation activities and which concepts, techniques, tools and management processes are helpful to successfully advance technological change and innovations.
Description
This is an introductory course to the management of innovation. Thus it aims at introducing theories, models and tools to the students that are central to managing the identification, development and commercialization of innovations. Core topics covered in this course include market failures faced by innovating firms, knowledge about the various definitions of an innovation and innovative activities, how to search for novel ideas (inside as well as outside of the firms’ boundaries), what tools to use inside and outside of the firm to evaluate promising ideas efficiently and accurately, ways to acquire external financing in case of cash flow constraints, tools to use to increase appropriability of innovations as well as various forms to develop innovations inside and outside of the firm. In examples, cases, and an assignment students work out in practice how to assess the feasibility and desirability of innovation opportunities and how to manage innovation from the first idea to implementing an innovation plan.
Literature
Book, articles and case studies.
Prerequisites
This course has been cancelled for the pre-master International Business specialisation Entrepreneurship and Business Development and the pre-master International Business specialisation Strategy and Innovation.
See the Bachelor Education and Examination Regulations for more information.

The following rule applies to pre-master students who started the programme prior to academic year 2023-2024.
Specifically:
* Pre-master International Business specialisation Entrepreneurship and Business Development
* Pre-master International Business specialisation Strategy and Innovation
TRANSITIONAL REGULATION (EBC2068):
Students who have not been able to successfully complete "Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation" (EBC2068) before 2024-2025, do not comply with the requirement to successfully complete the pre-master in two academic years. Therefore, no additional examination options will be available.


PREREQUISITES:
* Basic knowledge of: management/business economics, organization and strategy.
* An advanced level of English
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) PBL / Presentation / Lecture / Assignment / Papers / Groupwork / Research
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Final Paper / Participation / Assignment / Presentation
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
This course belongs to the following programmes / specialisations
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Bachelor Economics and Business Economics - International Business Economics Year 3 Business Elec(s) - Maj Macro
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Pre-master International Business specialisation Strategy and Innovation Deprecated
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