Course content - Learning outcome - Admission - Prerequisites - Teaching - Examination - Evaluation

Course content

This course deals with innovation management and strategic decision making in technology based industries. Specific topics dealt with include:

• Types, sources and models of innovation
• Standards battles and design dominance, timing of entry
• Innovation strategy: assessing and defining strategic directions
• Collaboration strategies
• Management of intellectual property rights (IPR)
• Organizing for innovation and new product development

Learning outcome

The course will introduce students to strategic management tools and concepts that will help them to:

• Assess, manage, and implement technological innovations.
• Understand the role of advanced technology in framing corporate strategy as well as the role of technological development in society at large.
• Identify opportunities and possibilities for competitive advantage through innovation.
• Understand how to appropriate value from technologies.
• Understand how to nurture innovative capacity in the firm and
  how to build a creative organization.
• Assess the benefits of cooperative arrangements with other
  organizations.

Admission

Students at UiO must apply for courses in StudentWeb.

International applicants, if you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

To attend this course you need to hold a Bachelor’s degree. A limited number of students that are not participating in the MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship program will be enrolled. To attend ENT4400 students will have to apply for admission to “single courses studies” at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, you can read more here

The examination in this course is not available for external candidates. Only students admitted to the course may sit for the examination.

Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

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Recommended previous knowledge

ENT4000 - From idea to business

Teaching

Intensive weekly sessions during January and February based on lectures and case studies to explore and apply the topics.

Thereafter, participants should expect a significant amount of group work on a real project.

January - March

Access to teaching

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Examination

Compulsory graded assignments. The course is assessed on the basis of a portfolio of individual assignments counting 50% of the total grade, and a major group assignment counting 50% of the total grade. The assignments contribute towards the overall grade, and all assignments must be passed in order to receive a grade in the course. Course grades are awarded on a descending scale using alphabetic grades from A to E for passes and F for fail.

Examination support material

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Language of examination

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English

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

Anders Lunnan is the external auditor for this course.

Explanations and appeals

You may request an explanation of your grades, and you may also appeal against your grades or make a complaint about formal examination errors. Read more about explanations and appeals.

Resit an examination

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Withdrawal from an examination

A student may sit this exam up to 3 times. If a student wishes to withdraw from the exam, s/he must do so in StudentWeb at least two weeks prior to the first day of the exam. Failure to do so will be counted as one of the three opportunities to sit the exam.

Special examination arrangements

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Students may apply for access to alternative exam resources or exam forms on the basis of chronic illness and/or special needs that create a marked disadvantage to other students in the exam situation.

Evaluation

Feedback from our students is essential to us in our efforts to ensure and further improve the high quality of our programmes and courses. All courses are subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students on a particular course to participate in a more comprehensive, periodic evaluation of this course.