Syllabus for a course based on Innovation Management:
Strategies, Implementation, and Profits by Allan Afuah
A 14-Week Case-Based Course
Outline
º Goal
º Class 1: Introduction.
º Class 2: Sources and transfer of innovation.
º Class 3: Subject: Static models of innovation.
º Class 4: Subject: Incumbent/New entrant race for technology and
complementary assets.
º Class 5: Dynamic models of innovation.
º Class 6: Strategic decisions early in the life of an
innovation.
º Class 7: Competing technologies and Standards.
º Class 8: Pause for reflection.
º Class 9: Strategy, Structure, Systems, People, and Environment
(S3PE).
º Class 10: Recognizing the potential of innovation/Leveraging
technological capabilities.
º Class 11: Locating a profit site.
º Class 12: Multibusiness from an emerging technology (Corporate
innovation).
º Class 13: Implementation of the decision to adopt an
innovation.
º Class 14: Exploration/Exploitation.
º Class 15: Who really are your co-opetitors in the face of a
technological change?
º Class 16: Pause for reflection.
º Class 17: Strategies for protecting innovation profits.
º Class 18: The role of government in innovation.
º Class 19: Strategies for globalization.
º Class 20: Innovating for emerging economies.
º Class 21: Financing innovation.
º Class 22: Strategic Innovation Process.
º Class 23~26: Project Presentations.
º Class 27: Review: Where have we been?
º Class 28: Final Wrap-up.
º Project Note: Writing cases in innovation.
