General information


Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Joan Triadó Aymerich

Trimester: First term

Credits: 6

Teaching staff: 

Sonia Llorens Cervera

Teaching languages


  • Catalan
  • Spanish
  • English

Skills


Specific skills
  • CE24: Identify the types of industrial complexes, and determine and design their characteristics.

  • CE25: Identify models of industrial policy and technological innovation.

  • CE26: Design management strategies.

Description


Subject framed in the matter of organization of companies. The course aims to introduce students to strategies and tools to implement the process and management of industrial innovation, with a focus on learn by doing.

Contents


0 # CONTENTS  INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT
  DESCRIPTION Contents
    Objectives and competencies
    Activities
    Evaluation system
     
1 # CONTENTS  INTRODUCTION TO INNOVATION
  DESCRIPTION Motivations and definition of innovation
    Types of innovation
    The process of innovation
     
2 # CONTENTS  INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
  DESCRIPTION Innovation process models
    Definition of the innovation strategy and plan
    Selection and prioritization of innovation projects
    Project portfolio management. R & D & I projects
    New models for management: Lean Thinking and Agile Management
    Models for managing innovation in SMEs
    New industrial business models
     
3 # CONTENTS  TOOLS FOR INNOVATION
  DESCRIPTION Tools for detecting unmet needs and opportunities
    Competitive intelligence
    Solution generation tools
     
4 # CONTENTS  KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION
  DESCRIPTION Intellectual capital models
    Knowledge management models
    Industrial property
    Patents
    Valuation of inventions
     
5 # CONTENTS  INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
  DESCRIPTION Key factors
    Elements to develop a culture of innovation
    Change management and barriers to innovation
    Open and intrapreneurial innovation
     
6 # CONTENTS  TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION POLICY
  DESCRIPTION Innovation and territorial development
    National, regional and local innovation systems
    Ecosystems for innovation
    Cooperation with technological innovation objectives
    Technology and knowledge transfer
    Innovation as a basis for business competitiveness
     
7 # CONTENTS  INNOVATION FOR THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
  DESCRIPTION Circular Economy as a resilience strategy
    EC Strategies
    Application of Innovation. Case studies
   
     
     
     
     

 

 

 

Evaluation system


Compulsory exam attendance

ACTIVITIES

PES discipline

EXAMS

30%

EXERCISES

30%

WORK EXPERIENCE

40%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only the part of the exams can be recovered. 

REFERENCES


Basic

"Technology and innovation in the company". Ed UPC Jaume Valls and Pere Escorsa (2003)

The Systematization of innovation: rules of the UNE 166.000 R+D+I series

ISBN-84 393-6690-6

Complementary

http://www.xaviermarcet.com/

http://xavierferras.blogspot.com/

https://innolandia.es/los-11-mejores-videos-tedx-sobre-innovacion/

http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/

"Exponential Organizations", Salim Ismail

2014

ISBN papel: 978-84-686-8631-8
ISBN digital: 978-84-686-8638-7

 

"Generation of business models"; Ed Deusto Alexander Osterwalder&Yves Pigneur

https://www.triz.org/index.php/triz/triz

"Serious game: How to simulate to innovate the best companies." Ed Harvard Business School Press; Michael Shrage (2000)

"Esquivar la mediocrity", Xavier Marcet

2017

ISBN: 978-84-17114-35-0