Open and User Innovation

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Course Agenda

Overview

The block course on open and user innovation is offered as an elective course at MTEC and extends courses on knowledge management and innovation as well as marketing. The students are introduced to the concept of open innovation as well as the long-standing tradition of actively involving users of technology and other knowledge-intensive products in the development and production process. Through own cases they develop an entrepreneurial understanding of product development under distributed, user-centered, or open innovation strategies. Theoretical underpinnings taught in the course include models of innovation and the structuration of technology.

The course includes both lectures and exercises alternately. The goal is to understand the opportunity of user innovation for management and develop strategies to harness the value of user-developed ideas and contributions for firms and other organizations.

The students actively participate in discussions during the lectures and contribute presentations of case studies during the exercises. The combination should allow to compare theory with practical cases from various industries.

The course presents and builds upon recent research and challenges the students to devise innovation strategies that take into account the availability of user expertise, free and public knowledge, and the interaction with communities that span beyond one organization.

Performance assessment will be: a written group essay based on the open/user innovation case that participants will research and present during the block seminar (including the slides). Each group will have to hand in a 15-20 page essay, details on the required format and the content will be distributed during the course. Active lass participation is required.

Administrative Issues

  • Introduction: 26. Sep 2023, 15:00-17:00 (Online)
  • Module I: 30. Oct 2023, 09:15-17:00 (HG F 26.3)
  • Module II: 31. Oct 2023, 09:15-17:00 (HG F 26.3)
  • Module III: 01. Nov 2023, 09:15-17:00 (HG F 26.3)

Group Essay Submission Date: announced during the course

Slides will be uploaded to the course moodle. 

How to get the 3 credit points (the same for all students)

  • Class presentation of a user innovation case (50% of the grade)
  • Group Essay (50% of the grade)

Selected student presentations from (2010-2013)

Kasouha, Seregni and Agrawal : The invisible helmet

Romila and Kottmann : Phonebloks

Grob and Schmid: protected pageGimbal systems

Ebneter and Studer: protected pageZoybar

Tata, Eigenmann and Davidson: protected page3D printing

Müller, Schmitt and Hobi: protected pageKitesurfing

Solomon: protected pageBoosted boards

Soltamova, Papatheologos and Pincet: protected pageLocal motors

Keidel, Eichenhofer and Müller: protected pageMulticopters

Paurat and Gunde Panga: protected pageFacebook

Gonzalez: protected pageP&G Connect + Develop

Kasics, Schnellmann and Flury: protected pageCoffee roaster

Ehrle and Engler: protected pageThe ''Jugaad'' way: The Mitti Cool Refrigerator

Stark: protected pageArduino (protected pagehandout)

Lüthi, Marfurt and Sprock: protected pageMultitouch screens

Andronikakis and Öznur: protected pageAndroid

Baschnagel and Haller: protected page2.4 GHz Transceiver Systems

Reading assignments (sorted by priority):

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