COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY ECONOMICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BIL 7010 INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY ECONOMICS COMPULSORY 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Research-Development and Innovation Management Non-thesis (evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YEŞIM ÜÇDOĞRUK GÜREL

Offered to

Research-Development and Innovation Management Non-thesis (evening)

Course Objective

This course aims to analyze economics of innovation and technology by focusing on economic development and technological improvements in the world economy. Through out the course, measurement of technological change, basic microeconomic theory of technological change and innovation, importance of technological improvements and and innovation on firm's decisions, the effects of teknological development on economic performance and technology policy making by goverments will be evaluated.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand basic principles of technological change and innovation in order to evaluate the decision's of firms and consumers
2   To distinguish between microeconomic and macroeconomic impacts of technological chnange in order to analyze the differences between economic performnace of countries
3   To define the impcat of different innovation outcomes in line with different market structures
4   To evaluate different innovation policy outcomes in order to analyze the impcat of technological imporvenets and innovation on different countries
5   To make a presentation by analyzing differet sector and country experiences with technological change and innovation descriptively

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Innovation systems: Basic concepts
2 Theories on technological change
3 The impact of innovation and technological change:historical perspective
4 The determinants of technological change:country cases
5 The macroeconomic analysis of technological change
6 The microeconomics of innovation
7 Product and process innovation
8 Product and process innovattion
9 Innovation and the firm
10 Innnovation and market structure
11 Innovation and market structure
12 Innovation policies
13 Presentations
14 Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Freeman, C. and L. Soete (1997), The Economics of Industrial Innovation, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, UK, Third Edition.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Classes
2. Readings
3. Research project
4. Presentations

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT* 0.40 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + RST* 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be announced.

Assessment Criteria

1. Student might define basic concepts in economics of innovation and technology.
2. Student might use basic microeconomic theories in order to evaluate the different impacts of innovation on consumer and firm decisions.
3. Student might evaluate different technology and innovation policies.
4. Student, might use econometric and quantitative methods in order to solve optimization problem of innovation making firms.
5. Student might use econometric and quantitative methods to analyze impact of innovation on sectors and countries.
6. Student might conduct a research on economics of innovation and technology and present it.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Yeşim Üçdoğruk Gürel
yesim.ucdogruk@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 153

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.234433
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LO.53443335

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