Postgraduate - UnitMGF5600 - Managing innovation

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Management
Offered	Caulfield Second semester 2014 (Day) Caulfield Second semester 2014 (Evening)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Ananya Bhattacharya

Synopsis

This unit looks at innovation as a managerial process. It provides methodologies for setting up and managing innovation within teams, departments and organisation wide.
Topics cover: sources of innovation; collaboration and cooperation in innovation; types of innovation networks: social, sartorial, regional, national and global; the strategies and stages of creative innovation, translating knowledge into innovation; methods of selecting and rejecting innovation including the stage gate process; mapping technological change and opportunity; managing an innovative culture and the diffusion of innovation, exploiting intellectual property; the role of discontinuous innovation, and innovation for growth and sustainability in domestic and international markets.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

develop strategies for managing innovation and its commercialisation
design an appropriate process for screening a new product service idea through to introduction
define criteria for the sustainability of innovations
describe the impact of networks and role of networking on managing the innovation process.

Assessment

Within Semester Assessment: 100%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Dayna Simpson

Prohibitions

MGX5600