Open and User Innovation
Lecturers: external pageProf Dr. Stefan Haefligercall_made and external pageProf. Dr. Sebastian Spaethcall_made
Teaching Assistant: Cyrille Grumbach
Zoom link: external pagehttps://ethz.zoom.us/j/2049413948call_made
Group projects organization (4-5 per group): external pagehttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BgvmCz12-duULe756OysXx7f_ZNROuERncLGiAP2PCo/edit#gid=0call_made
Lecture Presentation (download them from this Google Drive, free of access): external pagehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Xv1eiZp_ccrD95sGai-LDGSvI_UGwUtN?usp=drive_linkcall_made
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 systemslock
Ebneter and Studer: protected pageZoybarlock
Tata, Eigenmann and Davidson: protected page3D printinglock
Müller, Schmitt and Hobi: protected pageKitesurfinglock
Solomon: protected pageBoosted boardslock
Soltamova, Papatheologos and Pincet: protected pageLocal motorslock
Keidel, Eichenhofer and Müller: protected pageMulticopterslock
Paurat and Gunde Panga: protected pageFacebooklock
Gonzalez: protected pageP&G Connect + Developlock
Kasics, Schnellmann and Flury: protected pageCoffee roasterlock
Ehrle and Engler: protected pageThe ''Jugaad'' way: The Mitti Cool Refrigeratorlock
Stark: protected pageArduinolock (protected pagehandoutlock)
Lüthi, Marfurt and Sprock: protected pageMultitouch screenslock
Andronikakis and Öznur: protected pageAndroidlock
Baschnagel and Haller: protected page2.4 GHz Transceiver Systemslock
Reading assignments (sorted by priority):
To access the journal articles listed below, you have to be within the ETH domain.
- external pagevon Hippel, Eric. 2005. Democratizing Innovation. MIT Press.call_made
- external pagevon Hippel, E., & von Krogh, G. 2003. The private-collective innovation model in Open Source software development: Issues for organization science.Organization Science, 14: 209-223.call_made
- external pageFaulkner, P. and Runde J. 2009. On the identity of technological objects and user innovations in function.Academy of Management Review, 34(3): 442-462.call_made
- external pagevon Krogh, G. 1998. Care in Knowledge Creation.California Management Review, 40: 133-154.call_made
- external pageJeppesen, L.B. and Frederiksen, L. 2006. Why do User Contribute to Firm-hosted User Communities? The Case of Computer Controlled Music Instruments.Organization Science, 17: 45-63.call_madeexternal pagecall_made
- external pageSarasvathy, S. D. 2001. Causation and effectuation: Toward a theoretical shift from economic inevitability to entrepreneurial contingency.Academy of Management Review, 26: 243-263.call_made
- external pagevon Krogh, G. K. Ichijo, I. Nonaka. 2000. Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of InnovationOxford University Press.call_made
- protected pageBaldwin, C., Hienerth, C., & von Hippel, E. 2006. How user innovations become commercial products: A theoretical investigation and case study. Research Policy. 35 (9): 1291-1313.lock
- external pageKozinets, R.V. 2002. The field behind the screen: Using netnography for marketing research in online communities. Journal of Marketing Research, 39: 61-72call_made