Modules Handbook Module 1: Introduction: the content and context for innovation management Module overview Prerequisite Relation to curriculum Workload Credit points (6 ECTS) Media employed Admission and entry Compulsory 60h teaching 3 ECTS: Lecture 1.1 Beamer, overhead requirements to the projectors, laptop, ppt 120h self-study 3 ECTS: Practice 1.2 master level programme presentation, teaching material, video and audio resources, white board Module description Objective of the Teaching contact Teaching Team Teaching Language Forms of Examination* module hours • Definitions of • Lecture 1.1: 30 h • Local lecturers: Anis • English (French†) • Case-study innovation and • Practice 1.2: 30 h Allagui & Aida Besbes presentation • Written exam at the entrepreneurship, (ENIT) end of the semester, innovation process • International mentor 1h30 models (2012-2017): Prof. Dr. • The national John Bessant, innovation systems UNEXE Module content * The calculation of the final module mark is provided and explained in Part 4 (pp. 24-25). † All the students’ presentations are done in English. The lectures are mainly delivered in English; however, some of the professors use French due to the lack of English skills. In either of the way, French is used for group discussions inside the class and outside the class project work and master thesis supervision. Teaching content (lecture): Teaching content (practice): Learning outcomes Reading List Definitions of innovation and The national innovation entrepreneurship, innovation systems process models • Definitions of innovation and • National systems of • Knowledge: Interpreting and Books: entrepreneurship innovation identifying the internal and • Bessant, J. and Tidd, J. • Drivers for innovation – • Innovation as a core external dynamics of (2011) Innovation and competition, regulation, business process innovation Entrepreneurship. Second knowledge creation. • Project works • Analysing the main edition, John Wiley and Son • A process model for challenges related to Ltd innovation innovation management: • Tidd,J. and Bessant, J. • Case-study 1 organization, technology Managing Innovation. 4th evolution and management, edition, John Wiley and Sons market dynamics, funding, Ltd. ethical and legal aspects... • (DICAMP Library) • Skills: Analysing key success factors of innovation • David Hamme, (2014), • Competences: Creating the Customer Focused Process individual behaviour within Innovation: Linking Strategic an organisation towards Intent to Everyday Execution innovation activity: Motivation and Creativity • Jonas Michaneck and Andréas Breiler (2013), The idea agent: the handbook on creative processes • Larry Keeley, Helen Walters, Ryan Pikkel andBrian Quinn, (2013), Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs Weighting of Exams Written Exam 60% Personal project work 40% Module 2: Innovation Strategy Module overview Prerequisite Relation to curriculum Workload Credit points (6 ECTS) Media employed Admission and entry Compulsory 60h teaching 3 ECTS: Lecture 2.1 Beamer, overhead requirements to the projectors, laptop, ppt 120h self-study 3 ECTS: Practice 2.2 master level programme presentation, teaching material, video and audio resources, white board Module description Objective of the Teaching contact Teaching Team Teaching Language Forms of Examination module hours • Capabilities needed • Lecture 2.1: 30 h • Local lecturer: Olfa • English (French) • Case-study by firms to manage • Practice 2.2: 30 h Kammoun (ESSEC) presentation • Written exam at the innovation • International mentor end of the semester, • Dynamic capability of (2014-2019): Prof. Dr. 1h innovation John Bessant (UNEXE) Module content Teaching content (lecture): Teaching content (practice): Learning outcomes Reading List Dynamic capabilities: learning Tools for building innovation to manage innovation in a capabilities dynamic pattern of change • Definitions – of learning, • Game. Developing • Knowledge: Formulating and Books: routines, How to link innovation strategy evaluating the dynamic innovation capabilities to • Role-Game. Presenting strategies in innovation • Bessant, J. and Tidd, J. innovation performance innovation strategy activity and the dynamic (2011) Innovation and • Sources of discontinuity and • Case-study. The Fairmount capability vocabulary. Entrepreneurship. Second pattern of change hotel, sustainability strategy • Applying the tools to be used edition, John Wiley and • Innovation dynamics in developing flexibility and Son Ltd • Tools for analysis – How to meeting the challenges at • Liisa Välikangas , Michael work at the innovation the innovation frontier Gibbert (2015), Strategic frontier and build capabilities • Skills: Analysing the Innovation: The Definitive in changing environment innovation context Guide to Outlier Strategies strategic positioning, by • Competences: Evaluating 1st Edition learning, routines, knowledge, skills and social • Tidd, J. and Bessant, J. entrepreneurship and and methodological Managing Innovation. 4th dynamic capabilities. capacities in working or edition, John Wiley and Sons learning situations Ltd. • (DICAMP Library) Journal papers: • Pavitt, K. (1991): Key Characteristics of the Large Innovating Firm. British Journal of Management, 2, pp. 41-50. • Romijn H. and Albaladejo, M. (2002). Determinants of innovation capability in small electronics and software firms in Southeast England. Research Policy, vol. 31, pp. 1053–1067. • Kafouros, M.I., Buckley, P.J., Sharp, J.A. and Wang, C. (2008). The Role of Internationalization in Explaining Innovation Performance. Technovation, 28(1-2), 63-74 • Kirner, E.; Kinkel, S. and Jaeger, A. (2009). Innovation Paths and the Innovation Performance of Low- Technology Firms – An Empirical Analysis of German Industry. Research Policy, 38(3), pp. 447-458. • Nelson, R. and Winter, S. (1982). An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Cambridge Mass. and London, Belnap Press of Harvard University Press. • Strategic Innovation: The Definitive Guide to Outlier Strategies (2015)Liisa Välikangas, Michael Gibbert • Strategic Management and Business Policy: Globalization, Innovation and Sustainablility (2014) 14th Edition Thomas L. Wheelen, J. David Hunger, Alan N. Hoffman, Chuck Bamford • Innovation Management: Strategies, Concepts and Tools for Growth and Profit (Response Books), (2013) Shlomo Maital, D V R Seshadri Weighting of Exams Written Exam 60% Personal project work 40% Module 3: Searching for innovation opportunities Module overview Prerequisite Relation to curriculum Workload Credit points (6 ECTS) Media employed Admission and entry Compulsory 60h teaching 3 ECTS: Lecture 3.1 Beamer, overhead requirements to the projectors, laptop, ppt master level programme 120h self-study 3 ECTS: Practice 3.2 presentation, teaching material, video and audio resources, white board Module description Objective of the Teaching contact Teaching Team Teaching Language Forms of Examination module hours • Understanding the • Lecture 3.1: 20 h • Local lecturer: Dr. El • English (French) • Written exam at the theoretical knowledge • Practice 3.2: 40 h Fidha Chokri end of the semester, alongside searching (ESSEC) 1h opportunities of • International mentor innovation. (2012-2017): Prof. Dr. Klaus Menrad (HSWT) Module content Teaching content (Lecture): Teaching content (Practice): Learning outcomes Reading List Properties and process of Technological diffusion at the diffusion and adoption of international level innovations • Assess opportunities in fast • Case study 1: Intermediate • Knowledge: Identifying and Books growing business and capital goods imports: constructing the innovation • Paul Trott: Innovation environment. the case of Tunisia and entrepreneurship Management and New Product • Plan and manage rapid • Case study 2: Technological opportunities, problems and Development. Prentice Hall; growth diffusion via Tunisian uncover assumptions using 5th edition; Publication Date: • Integrate interdisciplinary manufacturing exports theories and information from November 3, 2011 approaches to search • Case study 3: Aravind case, a range of disciplines as well innovation opportunities innovations in healthcare as from personal experience • Everett M. Rogers: Diffusion • Video Film: Veeder Root, a • Integrate learning across of innovations. Free Press. 5th small company exploiting disciplines, over time and edition. innovative ideas and between academic, addressing the challenge of employment and personal • Geoffrey A. Moore, Crossing continuous process spheres the Chasm: Marketing and innovation & 4P Exercise based on the Video • Skills: Applying collaboration Selling High-tech Products to • Game: commercialisation of with peers Mainstream Customers, (1991, overseas innovation on the • Starting new enterprises, revised 1999) Tunisian market making them grow or transforming existing • Von Hippel, E., The businesses through democratization of innovations in product, innovation2005, Cambridge, process or business models Mass.: MIT Press. • Analysing the degree to which an innovation can be • Prahalad, C.K., The fortune at adopted and diffused the bottom of the pyramid2006, • Competences: Evaluating New Jersey: Wharton School Publishing. the opportunities in fast growing business • Radjou, N., J. Prabhu, and S. environment. Ahuja, Jugaad innovation: • Plan and manage rapid Think frugal, be flexible, generate breathrough growth innovation2012, San Francisco: • Integrate interdisciplinary Jossey Bass. approaches to search innovation opportunities • Kim, W. and R. Mauborgne, Blue ocean strategy: How to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant2005, Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press. • J. Bessant and B. von Stamm, ‘Twelve search strategies that may help to save your organization’ (www.aimresearch.org) Weighting of Exams Written Exam 60% Personal project work 40%