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Course
CANCELLED - Innovation Management - advanced (Dec)

Faculty
Professor Lars Bo Jeppesen

Course Coordinator
Lars Bo Jeppesen

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of theories related to economics, management, technology, innovation, and organizations. It is a requirement for receiving the course diploma that the student attend the entire course.

Aim
Bringing students to the forefront of the field of technology and innovation management.

Course content
This is an advanced PhD course in Technology and Innovation Management. It takes its point of departure in the fact that Innovation increasingly takes place through communities and platforms driven by “crowds” of developers and problem solvers. At the same time their outputs and products of the crowd contexts have come to shape the daily life of many of the world’s inhabitants. In some of the most dynamic sectors of the modern economy, such as, apps for smartphones, video games, media content, scientific and technical problems solving, companies’ overall performance already rely on individuals located outside the organization to become crucial sources of modules, ideas, tasks, and procedures. In recent research the labels used to describe these phenomena are among other user Innovation, innovation Contests and crowdsourcing, technology, digital economy, crowdfunding, and ”big data. In their attempts to access and leverage these sources of innovation it is now quite common for companies to employ more open forms of innovation combined with digital interaction, and try to “orchestrate” innovative communities. While these “open approaches” have rapidly diffused, creating a wealth of opportunities, it is obviously crucial to understand how companies manage to access and leverage these distributed sources of innovation. From this point of departure, the course will develop the conceptual foundations, frameworks and methods for analyzing the relationships between communities and firms.

Teaching style
Lectures, class discussion, exercises, student presentations, a home exam assignment.

Lecture plan
I. The Role of Users in Innovation
  • von Hippel, (2005) Democratizing Innovation, MIT Press, Chapter 1
  • von Hippel, (1986) Lead users: a source of novel product concepts, Management Science, 32 (7) (*)
  • Lilien, G.L., Morrison, P.D., Searls, K., Sonnack, M., and von Hippel, E. (2002) Performance Assessment of the, Lead User Idea-Generation Process for New Product Development”, Management Science, 48 (8), pp. 1042-1059.
  • Lakhani, Karim R. and Robert Wolf. "Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects." In Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software, edited by Joe Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott Hissam and Karim Lakhani. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2005.
  • Jeppesen, L.B. and Frederiksen, L., (2006) Why do users contribute to firm-hosted user communities? The case of computer-controlled music instruments. Organization Science. Vol 17 (1), 45-64.
II. Contests as Vehicles of Problem Solving and Innovation
  • Jeppesen, L.B. and Lakhani, K.R., (2010) Marginality and Problem Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search, Organization Science, 21 (5) 1016-1033
  • Boudreau, Kevin J., Nicola Lacetera, and Karim R. Lakhani. (2011) "Incentives and Problem Uncertainty in Innovation Contests: An Empirical Analysis." Management Science 57, no. 5 (May 2011): 843-863.
  • Afuah, Allan N., and Christopher L. Tucci, (2012), Crowdsourcing as a Solution to Distant Search, Academy of Management Review, 37(3)
  • Bayus BL. 2013. Crowdsourcing new product ideas over time: An analysis of the Dell IdeaStorm Community. Management Science, 59(1), 226-244.
III. Technology Platforms with Professionals and Hobbyists Involved
  • Boudreau, K. Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom? An Early Look at Large Numbers of Software “Apps” Developers and Patterns of Innovation. Organization Science
  • Boudreau, K. and L. Jeppesen. Competing With A Crowd: Informally Organized Individuals As Platform Complementors. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1812084
  • Zhang X, F. Zhu. 2011. Group size and incentives to contribute: A natural experiment at Chinese Wikipedia. American Economic Review 101(4): 1601–15.
IV. Digital Economy
  • Greenstein, S., Lerner J., S Stern, 2013 Digitization, innovation, and copyright: What is the agenda? Strategic Organization, (11) 110. 110-121
  • Yoo Y, Boland R, Lyytinen K, Majchrzak A. 2012. Organizing for innovation in a digital world. Organization Science 23(5):1398–1408.
V. Crowdfunding
  • Burtch, G., Ghose, A, S Wattal 2013, An Empirical Examination of the Antecedents and Consequences of Contribution Patterns in Crowd-Funded Markets, Information Systems Research 24 (3), 499-519
  • Mollick, E., The dynamics of crowdfunding: Determinants of success and failurehttp://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2088298
VI. Big Data – Opportunities and Challenges
  • Varian, H. R., Computer Mediated Transactions, March 6, 2010;http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/2010/cmt.pdf
  • Edelman, B., 2012, Using Internet Data for Economic Research, Journal of Economic Perspectives 26 (2) pp. 189–206 (*)
  • Chen, H., Chiang RHL. VC. Storey, 2012, Business Intelligence And Analytics: From Big Data To Big Impact, MIS Quarterly 36 (4), pp. 1165-1188
  • Brynjolfsson, Erik and Geva, Tomer and Reichman, Shachar, Crowd-Squared: Amplifying the Predictive Power of Large-Scale Crowd-Based Data (October 22, 2014). Available at SSRN:http://ssrn.com/abstract=2513559

Learning objectives
To understand the current debates around advanced topic of Technology and innovation management such as digital economy, community based innovation, strategy and management in these contexts.
Be able to demonstrate knowledge of relevant theories by explaining their assumptions, causal dynamics and processes.
Be able to demonstrate knowledge of the conceptual foundations, frameworks and methods relevant to the study of advanced technology and innovation management.

Exam
A home exam assignment. The student will write a review of a research article to be delivered two weeks after the course.

Other

Start date
05/12/2016

End date
07/12/2016

Level
PhD

ECTS
3

Language
English

Course Literature
Please see lecture plan.

Fee
3,900 DKK

Minimum number of participants
11

Maximum number of participants
15

Location

Contact information
Bente S. Ramovic
bsr.research@cbs,dk
T
el: +45 3815 3138

Registration deadline
31/10/2016

Please note that your registration is binding after the registration deadline.
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