COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MBA 4024 INNOVATION MANAGEMENT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Maritime Business Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR VOLKAN ÇETINKAYA

Offered to

Maritime Business Administration (Evening)
Maritime Business Administration

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to draw on various theoretical foundations and business cases to develop an understanding of the factors that lead to successful innovation in organizations and manage innovation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understanding the various types of innovation in organizations,
2   Having knowledge on the major organizational barriers to innovation and creativity;
3   Understanding the roles played by leadership and organizational design factors in innovation;
4   Having information on the steps in the innovation process, and mechanisms for directing and controlling the process;
5   Understanding contextual influences on innovation within organizations;

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Innovation: Introduction and Challenges
2 Innovation Management: Introduction
3 Innovation in Context: Business Environment, Role of the State, Impact of Technology
4 Innovation Process
5 Innovation: Major theories
6 Innovation: Creativity and Human Factors Individual, Team, and Leadership
7 Midterm
8 Managing innovation within firms
9 Managing intellectual property
10 Managing organizational knowledge
11 Management of research and development
12 New product development & service innovation
13 Open innovation and technology transfer
14 Presentation of term papers

Recomended or Required Reading

Trott, P. (2008) Innovation Management and New Product development , 4th ed. Harlow: Pearson
Milson, M & Wilemon, D (2007) The strategy of Managing ınnovation and Technology, Prentice Hall
Tidd J, and Bessant J. (2009) Managing Innovaiton 4 th Edition
Richard Luecke, Iş Dünyasında Yenilik ve Yaratıcılık, Çev.: Turan Parlak) 2. Basım

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Licase study, Homework, presantation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FINS FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Lecturer Volkan ÇETINKAYA

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 117

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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