Innovation and Technology Management

General

Course Contents

  • Introduction – Basic concepts of innovation and technology management.
  • The environment of innovation and technology management: needs, challenges, limitations.
  • The internal and external dimension of innovation and technology management.
  • Development modes and types of innovation development.
  • The importance of collaboration and networking in innovation development: The Open Innovation model.
  • The strategic dimension of innovation: The disruptive innovation model.
  • Product, process and business model innovation.
  • The innovation management value chain.
  • Technology development and management processes and models.
  • Strategic management of technology development – methods of forecasting technological development.
  • Fourth Industrial Revolution: significance and characteristics.
  • The future of work.

Educational Goals

The objectives of this lesson are:

  • To introduce the concepts of innovation and technology and highlight their importance in achieving business objectives.
  • To analyze modern innovation management models and distinguish their characteristics.
  • To analyze the current technological trends that are redefining the business environment and the characteristics and effects of new technologies.
  • To provide students with knowledge and tools for the evaluation and selection of new technologies and innovation methods.

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

  • To know basic concepts of innovation and technology management.
  • Understand the importance of technology and innovation for business success and gaining strategic advantage.
  • Distinguish the characteristics of different methods/models of innovation development and management.
  • To evaluate the effects that new technologies have on the operation of businesses and the working environment.
  • Explain the success and failure factors in innovation and technology development efforts by businesses.
  • Develop arguments for alternative and optimal ways of developing innovation and technology in businesses.

General Skills

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Teaching Methods

  • Face to face.

Use of ICT means

  • Online guidance.
  • Slides Projection in the classroom.
  • Use of E-mail and onlne communication systems.
  • Use of e-learning system (moodle).

Teaching Organization

ActivitySemester workload
Lectures39
Project30
Personal Study56
Total125

Students Evaluation

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Recommended Bibliography

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ΠΡΟΣΘΕΤΗ ΠΡΟΤΕΙΝΟΜΕΝΗ ΒΙΟΒΛΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ

  1. Διαχείριση Τεχνολογίας και Καινοτομίας, Δημήτρης Γεωργακέλλος, Σωτήρης Καρβούνης, Εκδόσεις Βαρβαρήγου 2015. Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 50656491.
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Related Research Journals

  1. Journal of Technology Management & Innovation.
  2. International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management.
  3. International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology.
  4. Research-Technology Management.
  5. Technovation.
  6. Journal of Technology.
  7. Research Policy.
  8. European Journal of Innovation Management.
  9. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management.
  10. The Management of Innovation and Technology.
  11. Journal of Innovation Management.
  12. Journal of Product Innovation Management.
  13. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity.
  14. Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
  15. Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation.
  16. International Journal of Innovation.