Sebastian Spaeth: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2024 |
| Name | Dr. Sebastian Spaeth |
| Field | Management Science |
| Address | Strateg. Management und Innovation ETH Zürich Weinbergstr. 56/58 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| sspaeth@ethz.ch | |
| Department | Management, Technology, and Economics |
| Relationship | Lecturer |
| Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 351-0555-00L | Open- and User Innovation Not for students belonging to D-MTEC! | 3 credits | 2G | S. Häfliger, S. Spaeth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | The course introduces the students to the long-standing tradition of actively involving users of technology and other knowledge-intensive products in the development and production process, and through own cases they develop an entrepreneurial understanding of product development under distributed, user-centered, or open innovation strategies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | The course includes both lectures and exercises alternately. The goal is to understand the opportunity of user innovation for management and develop strategies to harness the value of user-developed ideas and contributions for firms and other organizations. The students actively participate in discussions during the lectures and contribute presentations of case studies during the exercises. The combination should allow to compare theory with practical cases from various industries. The course presents and builds upon recent research and challenges the students to devise innovation strategies that take into account the availability of user expertise, free and public knowledge, and the interaction with communities that span beyond one organization. Performance assessment will be: a written group essay based on the open/user innovation case that participants will research and present during the block seminar (including the slides). Each group will have to hand in a 15-20 page essay, details on the required format and the content will be distributed during the course. Active lass participation is required. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | This course on user innovation extends courses on knowledge management and innovation as well as marketing. The students are introduced to the long-standing tradition of actively involving users of technology and other knowledge-intensive products in the development and production process, and through own cases they develop an entrepreneurial understanding of product development under distributed, user-centered, or open innovation strategies. Theoretical underpinnings taught in the course include models of innovation, the structuration of technology, and an introduction to entrepreneurship. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | The slides of the lectures are made available and updated continuously through Moodle. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | Relevant literature for the course includes slides and reading assignments. Papers will be made available through a corresponding Moodle group. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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