Product Development and Innovation Management (TEIO02), 12 ECTS credits

Schedule block 2, period ht 1-2 (August-December)

Welcome to the course Product Development and Innovation Management.

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Course aim and learning outcomes

The course aims at preparing the participants for line and project management positions within technology and product development. When they have passed the course, they should be able to:

• evaluate and discuss the usefulness of academic literature in the field of product development in relation to empirical examples;
• analyse examples of industrial product development and innovation processes on the basis of established theoretical perspectives and models;
• account for, and on the basis of empirical examples discuss, theories about important organisational prerequisites for a successful product development;
• account for, and on the basis of empirical examples discuss, models of industry and technology dynamics; and
• discuss the interrelationship between on the one hand industry/technology dynamics and on the other hand firm-level innovation processes and technology strategies, in relation to empirical examples. 

Prerequisites

For students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered (DPU, I, Ii, INN): Three years of completed university studies with an engineering major

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.

Course contents and organisation

Technology-based development is a central theme in the course. Technological development and its connection to organisation and management is studied both on an industry level, in terms of how technology-based industries change over time, and on a company level, i.e. how technology-based businesses are organised and how technology and product development activities are managed within the firm.

The course is divided into five themes:

1. Managing innovation within firms
2. Product development processes
3. Managing technology and knowledge
4. Product and brand strategy
5. Technology and industry dynamics

Each theme starts with a lecture introducing the theme and a corresponding group assignment. After that, a number of lectures on theme-relevant topics follow. In parallel, students work independently with the related group assignment.

Course literature

Trott, P.: Innovation Management and New Product Development, Prentice Hall (latest edition).

The book is complemented by a selection of scientific papers.

Examination

UPG1 Individual written assignment 6 ECTS credits
UPG2 Group assignment(s) (written and oral reporting) 6 ECTS credits

A pass grade is required on all assignments in order to pass the course. The course grade is a synthesis of the grades on all assignments. Students are allowed one attempt to revise fail grades on each assignment within the course. It is not allowed to revise assignments to get a higher grade than 3. Grading will be done according to the Swedish grading scale (fail, 3,4,5). Foreign students will also receive an ECTS grade.

Contact information

Visiting address

Department of Management and Engineering
Division of Project Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Building A, entrance 17-19. 

Main course staff