2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Technology and Innovation Management Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
Innovation Management I
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
- Instructor(s)
- Masaharu Tsujimoto / Shintaro Sengoku / Eiichiro Kimura
- Class Format
- Lecture (Livestream)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 11-12 Mon
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- TIM.B410
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This lecture aims to systematically understand the arguments of existing research on innovation and society, and to gain the knowledge and ability to construct own logic and apply it in practice. For this purpose, students will make a presentation of the existing research, present their own arguments and logic, and hold discussions. Through the discussion, we expect that the students will be able to gain new perspectives on phenomena, construct their own logic, and devise practical solutions for their own issues.
Course description and aims
Students will be able to systematically understand the arguments of existing research on innovation and society.
Students will be able to present their own logic and arguments and develop their ideas through discussion.
Students will be able to see the challenges they face as opportunities for innovation, analyze the challenges, and begin to think about solutions.
Keywords
Innovation, innovation and society
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Presentation of existing research, presentation of issues, and discussion
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Guidance and overview | nothing |
| Class 2 | Lean Canvas | Lecture |
| Class 3 | Lean Canvas | Groupwork in class |
| Class 4 | Lean Canvas | Group Presentation |
| Class 5 | Transition management | Group Presentation |
| Class 6 | Exploration and Exploitation | Group Presentation |
| Class 7 | Absorptive Capacity | Group Presentation |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Read the assigned paper, prepare a presentation if you are in charge of group work
Textbook(s)
nothing
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Existing research paper to be assigned at each lecture.
5th Lecture
Frank W. Geels,
Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: a multi-level perspective and a case-study,
Research Policy,
Volume 31, Issues 8–9,
2002,
Pages 1257-1274,
ISSN 0048-7333,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0048-7333(02)00062-8.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733302000628)
6th Lecture
James G. March, (1991) Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning. Organization Science 2(1):71-87.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2.1.71
7th Lecture
Cohen, W. M., & Levinthal, D. A. (1990). Absorptive capacity: A new perspective on learning and innovation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35(1), 128–152. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393553
Evaluation methods and criteria
Presentation: 70%
Contribution to the lecture: 30%
Related courses
- Innovation Theory Ⅱ
Prerequisites
nothing