Strategic Management of Technological Innovation. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

The course is designed to meet the needs of managers and entrepreneurs who analyze new opportunities for value creation and capture through technological innovation. The building blocks of the course include an understanding of the various types of technological changes, patterns that emerging technologies follow during their evolution, and the unique challenges created by each type of technological change. The course discusses the role of technological innovations, including disruptive innovation, in creating new entrepreneurial opportunities and neutralizing the threats to value capture. The course wraps up with a discussion of the societal factors that affect entrepreneurial firms’ efforts to create and capture value from new technological innovations.