Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS
Introduction
1	Dynamics of technological innovation
2	Industrial implications of technological innovation
3	Competitive implications of market and technology dynamics
Exploring innovations: experimentation and iteration
4	Systematizing innovation; “What’s the Big Idea;” IDEO
5	Scoping technology: Advanced Inhalation Research
6	No class; teams work on assignment 1
7	Iterating design: Team New Zealand
8	Experimenting with markets: innovation at 3M
9	Capstone: Iridium
Executing innovations: organizing to execute
10	Organizing innovation teams: ‘The Bakeoff’
11	Organizing flexible processes; ‘Internet Time’ exercise
12	Incentivizing and organizing innovators: GSK
13	Organizing innovation between firms and communities; One Laptop Per Child, innovation communities (Visitor: Mako Hill)
14	Incentivizing and organizing external innovators: D-Wave
15	Negotiation innovation work between firms and academia (SpudSpy & negotiation exercise)
Exploiting innovations: options, portfolios and platforms
16	No class; time for project work
17	Dynamics of the market for ideas; designing the value chain
18	Leveraging portfolio development: A123 (Visitor: Ric Fulop, Founder A123 Systems)
19	Capstone: leveraging platforms in online video gaming (Visitor: Cyrus Beagly, Sloan ‘02)
20	Portfolio management processes: le Petit Chef
Renewing innovations: organizing disruption
21	Internal vs. external sources of renewal: Intel
22	Renewing innovation; corporate venturing; IBM Alphaworks
23	Renewing innovation; internal venturing; GE imagination breakthroughs
24	Wrap-up