2023/2024
Ecosystems of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Mago-Lego
Delivered by:
Department of Educational Programmes
When:
2 module
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Dirk Meissner
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
32
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Innovation-driven entrepreneurs create, diffuse, and utilize knowledge through new products, services, technologies, and business models. These efforts rely on complementary resources, diverse agents, and supportive institutions within their business environments. Entrepreneurial ecosystems represent territorially rooted contexts where interactions among firms, governments, universities, and other agents shape innovative activities. These ecosystems extend beyond organizational boundaries, emphasizing shared resources, networks, knowledge spillovers, and local cultural and institutional conditions. Spatially concentrated knowledge spillovers promote open innovation and value co-creation opportunities, particularly in cities and regions. Governance structures within ecosystems evolve alongside the ecosystem, driven by bottom-up dynamics and top-down coordination. This course explores entrepreneurial ecosystems' components, interactions, and governance, evaluating their configurations and partnerships. Emphasis is placed on innovation habitats such as universities, technology parks, and incubators, highlighting their role in fostering sustainable, collaborative, and innovative environments.
Learning Objectives
- Partnership governance; partner search strategies of companies; partnership management
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Ability to design innovation processes
- An understanding of innovation climate determinants
- Ability to analyze innovation strategies
- Developing innovation portfolios
- Skills for developing organizational STI models
Course Contents
- Definitions, rationale
- Multinational Corporations, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
- Negotiating, Managing I (need, find, select partners)
- Cases (distributedin advance)
- Negotiating, Managing II (structuring, building networks, alliance dynamics)
- Global Value Chains
- Cases (distributedin advance)
- Wrap-up, Lessons
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 2nd moduleGroup activities and presentations (P) Final control: written exam after final lecture (60 minutes (F). The overall course grade (G) (10-point scale) is calculated as the mean between P (60%) and F (40%). G = F
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Nicholas S. Vonortasa, & Richard N. Spivackb. (n.d.). MANAGING LARGE RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS: Examples from the Advanced Technology Program’s Information Infrastructure for Healthcare Program. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.8BE364B4
- Nicholas Vonortas, & Lorenzo Zirulia. (2015). Strategic technology alliances and networks. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, (5), 490. https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2014.988517
- Ohmae, K. (1989). The Global Logic of Strategic Alliances. Harvard Business Review, 67(2), 143–154. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=bsu&AN=8905081819
- Pierre Dussauge, Ulrich Wassmer, & Marcel Planellas. (2010). How to Manage Alliances Better Than One at a Time. Post-Print. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.p.hal.journl.hal.00537079
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Sampson, R. C. (2004). The Cost of Misaligned Governance in R&D Alliances. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.EDB861D0