NA_CIM Change & Innovation Management

University of Finance and Administration
summer 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Ing. Ludmila Mládková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Miloš Krejčí (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Miloš Krejčí
Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Pittnerová
Timetable of Seminar Groups
NA_CIM/cBMPH: each odd Monday 17:30–18:14 S21, each odd Monday 18:15–19:00 S21, L. Mládková
NA_CIM/pBMPH: each odd Monday 15:45–16:29 S21, each odd Monday 16:30–17:15 S21, L. Mládková
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Prerequisites - Strategic management, Financial Management
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives (in Czech)
Define basic terms and specify the basic features of innovation and innovative entrepreneurship, clarify the significance of innovative activities to ensure high competitiveness of firms in today's global economics. Explain the conditions for successful evaluation of innovations. Define the characteristics of management processes ensuring business development of companies using successful innovations while providing profitability of investment put into its realization. The role of managers in implementing a business strategy based on the use of innovations.
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • 1. Innovation and innovative entrepreneurship 2. Search for innovative opportunities 3. Intellectual capital and its utilization 4. Financing innovation 5. Building a pro-innovation climate 6. The choice of innovative solutions that create new market space 7. Strategic partnership 8. The path to the business success of innovation 9. Return on investment in an innovation 10.The role of managers in ensuring the development of innovative business
Literature
    required literature
  • Chan, W., Mauborgne,K., R.: Blue Ocean Strategy. How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant. Harvard Business Press; 1 edition (February 3, 2005). ISBN-13: 978-1591396192
  • Peter M. Senge: The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization. Crown Business; Revised edition (March 21, 2006). ISBN-13: 978-0385517256
    recommended literature
  • Competition Irrelevant. Boston.Massachusetts. U.S.A: Hardvard Business School Press, 2005.
  • Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, Innovating to learn, learning to innovate. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co–operation and Development, 2008.
  • Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Innovations. Cambridge. Mass: MIT Press, 2006.
Teaching methods (in Czech)
The course is delivered in 6 lectures + 6 seminars (90 mins.) Students in full time study program should attend 75% of seminars as a minimum.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
To gain credit, students will develop a written assignment on a topic explained in the lectures. Subsequently, they will undergo written examination.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin KS/semestr.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2011, Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024.
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