Course Objective:
The primary goal of the course is to expose students to a variety of perspectives on and practices of innovation. Upon completion, the students should be able to recognize the need of changes in an organization in order to enhance creativity and to apply knowledge acquired from the course to improve the process of innovation management effectively. The students should also develop a deep understanding of a specific issue in the management of innovation through detailed investigations.
EMGT 5220 Innovation Management
Instructor: Hongyi Chen, Ph.D.
Office Hours: M, TH 10:00 - 11:00, F 11:00 - 12:00
Course Semester: Fall 2008
Course Time & Location: W 6:00 – 8:40 pm Kirby Plaza 173
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Key success factors of technological innovation will be identified
by looking at the diverse economic, social, cultural, psychological
and technical phenomena that comprise innovation. Questions that will
be answered include why certain inventions successfully made to the
market but some others died; why some organizations keep coming up
with innovations with tremendous business value but some others stay
as followers; how to enhance creativity at individual, team, organizational,
and national levels; what the emerging trend is in today’s business
innovation environment and how organizations should cope with it,
etc.
