Guía docente de Dirección de la Innovación Tecnológica (M56/56/1/37)

Curso 2025/2026
Fecha de aprobación por la Comisión Académica 04/07/2025

Máster

Máster Universitario en Economía / Economics

Módulo

Módulo II: Segundo Trimestre

Rama

Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas

Centro Responsable del título

International School for Postgraduate Studies

Semestre

Primero

Créditos

4

Tipo

Optativa

Tipo de enseñanza

Presencial

Profesorado

  • Vanesa Barrales Molina

Tutorías

Vanesa Barrales Molina

Email
  • Tutorías 1º semestre
    • Martes 9:30 a 15:30 (Empresariales Desp. B218)
  • Tutorías 2º semestre
    • Martes 9:30 a 15:30 (Empresariales Desp. B218)

Breve descripción de contenidos (Según memoria de verificación del Máster)

Technological innovation for competitiveness

Technological innovation dynamics

Innovation patterns

Strategic management of innovation

Protection and diffusion strategies for innovation

Prerrequisitos y/o Recomendaciones

Basic knowledge on management and strategic management

Competencias

Competencias Básicas

  • CB6. Poseer y comprender conocimientos que aporten una base u oportunidad de ser originales en desarrollo y/o aplicación de ideas, a menudo en un contexto de investigación.
  • CB7. Que los estudiantes sepan aplicar los conocimientos adquiridos y su capacidad de resolución de problemas en entornos nuevos o poco conocidos dentro de contextos más amplios (o multidisciplinares) relacionados con su área de estudio.
  • CB8. Que los estudiantes sean capaces de integrar conocimientos y enfrentarse a la complejidad de formular juicios a partir de una información que, siendo incompleta o limitada, incluya reflexiones sobre las responsabilidades sociales y éticas vinculadas a la aplicación de sus conocimientos y juicios.
  • CB9. Que los estudiantes sepan comunicar sus conclusiones y los conocimientos y razones últimas que las sustentan a públicos especializados y no especializados de un modo claro y sin ambigüedades.
  • CB10. Que los estudiantes posean las habilidades de aprendizaje que les permitan continuar estudiando de un modo que habrá de ser en gran medida autodirigido o autónomo.

Resultados de aprendizaje (Objetivos)

Student will know/understand:

 

CE2 – Acquire bibliographical information on the current state of business research

CE3 – Understand the relevant existing theories, tendencies and debates

CE5 – Apply advanced techniques to real problems

CE9 – Plan and organize empirical studies

CE10 - Plan and organize experimental studies

CE15 – Solve technical and practical problems related to the design of experimental studies  

CE16 – Solve technical and practical problems related to the design of empirical studies

 

Student will be able to:

 

  • Acquire bibliographic information about the current state of the art on technological innovation management.
  • Understand and interpret theoretical models related to innovation.
  • Propose and solve news related to research into technological innovation management.
  • Understand principles of technological innovation management.
  • Recognize the importance of technological innovation management to improve competitiveness.
  • Recognize the importance of research into innovation and the involvement of best journals and conferences.
  • Understand the best method to gather information and data through surveys and other techniques related to structural equations.

 

Programa de contenidos Teóricos y Prácticos

Teórico

THEORY PROGRAM

 

CHAPTER 1: Innovation in the making

1.1. Dimensions of innovation

1.2. Degrees of innovation

1.3. Users of innovation

1.4. Sources of innovation

1.5. The Gartner’s curve

 

CHAPTER 2: Models for innovation development

2.1. Linear models

2.2. Stage-gate processes for innovation

2.3. Fuzzy front-end models

2.4. Funnel models

2.5. Open innovation models

 

CHAPTER 3: Innovation from an international perspective

3.1. Innovation clusters

3.2. Global innovation index 2025

 

CHAPTER 4: Innovation strategy

4.1. Strategical options for innovation

4.2. Matrix to understand the strategic management of innovation

4.3. Collaboration strategy

4.4. Protection strategy

 

CHAPTER 5: The innovative company

4.1. The ambidextrous company

4.2. Organizational structure and innovation

4.3. Innovation culture

4.4. Key employees and team working

4.5. Intrapreneurship and spin-offs

 

CHAPTER 6: Recent research trends in innovation

5.1. Key relatively recent seminal papers

5.2. Key recent empirical papers

 

 

 

 

 

Práctico

PRACTICAL PROGRAM

P1. Emergent technologies in 2025 Gartner’s curve

P2. Innovation in Lemonade Inc.

P3. Searching real patents in databases

Bibliografía

Bibliografía fundamental

 

REQUIRED READING:

Dodgson, M. and Gann, D. M. (2013). The Oxford Handbook of innovation Management. Oxford university press.

Goffin, K. and Mitchell, R. (2017). Innovation Management: Effective strategy and implementation. Macmillan education.

Tid, J. and Bessant (2013). Managing innovation: Integrating technological, market and organizational change. Wiley: first edition.

Gault, F. (2013). Handbook of innovation indicators and measurement. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

 

 

Bibliografía complementaria

RECOMMENDED READING:

  • Fagerberg, J., Mowery, D. and Nelson, R.R. (2006). The Oxford Handbook of innovation.Oxford University Press.
  • Shalley, C. E., Hitt, M. A. and Zhou, J. (2015). Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Oxford University Press.
  • Williams, M. and Vogt, P.(2014). The Sage Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods. SAGE

Metodología docente

Evaluación (instrumentos de evaluación, criterios de evaluación y porcentaje sobre la calificación final.)

Evaluación Ordinaria

ORDINARY ASSESSMENT SESSION

 

Article 18 of the UGR Assessment Policy and Regulations establishes that the ordinary assessment session (convocatoria ordinaria) will preferably be based on the continuous assessment of students, except for those who have been granted the right to a single final assessment (evaluación única final), which is an assessment method that only takes a final exam into account.

 

This ordinary assessment session will be conducted through an ongoing evaluation of student training in order to assess (shown in parenthesis the weight of each item in the final assessment):

  •  2 presentations of topics related to the subject: 20%
  • 1 workshop about search of patents: 10%
  • Active attendance to classes: 10%
  • Written exam: 60%. Consisting in five questions related to theoretical and practical issues developed in lecturers. A minimum grade of 4 points in exam (above 10 points) is required to consider grades in presentations and attendance.

Evaluación Extraordinaria

 

 

Article 19 of the UGR Assessment Policy and Regulations establishes that students who have not passed a course in the ordinary assessment session (convocatoria ordinaria) will have access to an extraordinary assessment session (convocatoria extraordinaria). All students may take part in this extraordinary assessment session, regardless of whether or not they have followed continuous assessment activities. In this way, students who have not carried out continuous assessment activities will have the opportunity to obtain 100% of their mark by means of an exam and/or assignment.


Students who failed or did not attend classes should realize a final evaluation based on the same criteria:

  • Written exam: 100%. Consisting in five questions related to theoretical and practical issues developed in lecturers.

 

Evaluación única final

Article 8 of the UGR Assessment Policy and Regulations establishes that students who are unable to follow continuous assessment methods due to justifiable reasons shall have recourse to a single final assessment (evaluación única final), which is an assessment method that only takes a final exam into account.

 

In order to opt for a single final assessment (evaluación única final), students must send a request, using the corresponding online procedure, to the coordinator of the master’s programme, in the first two weeks of the course or in the two weeks following their enrolment (if the enrolment has taken place after the classes have already begun). The coordinator will communicate this information to the relevant teaching staff members, citing and verifying the reasons why the student is unable to follow the continuous assessment system.

 

In this case, the assessment will comprise:

  • Written exam: 100%. Consisting in five questions related to theoretical and practical issues developed in lecturers.

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