In this course, students can identify barriers for technological change and relevant issues for the organization of an industrial research function and students are able to reflect on the societal implications of technological change and the challenges that society poses to technology and industry. At the end of the course, students will be able to analyze dynamic processes of technological change within industrial corporations.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: TU Delft
Course Curriculum
| Module: 1 | |||
| 1.1 Relating Science, Technology and Strategy | 00:25:00 | ||
| Student Summaries- 1.Innovation- Mapping the winds of creative destruction- Abernathy, Clark | 00:05:00 | ||
| Student Summaries- 2.Appropriating of the returns from industrial research and development – Eirma | 00:05:00 | ||
| Student Summaries- 3.Sources of innovation – Hippel | 00:05:00 | ||
| Student Summaries- 4. Innovation by Disaster- The ozone catastrophe as experiment of forced innovation – Mulder | 00:05:00 | ||
| Student Summaries- 5. PVC Plastic- A History of Systems Development and Entrenchment | 00:05:00 | ||
| Student Summaries- 6.Replacing Nature, The arising of polymer science and synthetic fiber technology – Mulder | 00:05:00 | ||
| Module: 2 | |||
| Student Summaries- 7.Science and Corporate Strategy at Du Pont, 1902-1980 – Hounshell, Smith | 00:05:00 | ||
| Student Summaries- 8.Their Common Future, Business Technology Assessment and the Environment – Mulder, Vergragt | 00:05:00 | ||
| Student Summaries- 9.Third generation R&D, Managing the link to corporate strategy – Roussel, Saad, Erickson | 00:05:00 | ||
| Student Summaries- 10.Industrial Property Protection Strategies – Eirma | 00:05:00 | ||
| Student Summaries- 11.Traditional and modern Technology Assessment- Towards a toolkit – Ende ea | 00:05:00 | ||
| Student Summaries- 12.Changing Research Cultures – Varma | 00:05:00 | ||
| Student Summaries- 13.Technology as configuration that work- Rip | 00:05:00 | ||
| Module: 3 | |||
| Student Summaries- 14.Science in Action | 00:05:00 | ||
| Student Summaries- 15.Sustainable Technology Development – Weaver | 00:05:00 | ||
| 2.1 Determinism versus Constructivism | 00:20:00 | ||
| 2.2 Systems Approach | 00:15:00 | ||
| 3. Positive Feedback | 00:05:00 | ||
| 4. Technology Impact | 00:15:00 | ||
| Module: 4 | |||
| 5.1 Management of Technology | 00:18:00 | ||
| 5.2 Technology Policy | 00:10:00 | ||
| 5.3 Managing Technology in Society | 00:15:00 | ||
| 6.1 Appropriation of R&D | 00:05:00 | ||
| 6.2 R&D Strategies and Forecasting | 00:20:00 | ||
| 7.1 Sustainable Innovation | 00:10:00 | ||
| 7.2 Sustainable Enterprises | 00:10:00 | ||
| 8. Sociotechnical Maps | 00:05:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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