Innovation Teams and Disruptive Innovation

Contexts for Innovation Teams & Disruptive Innovation has two relatively independent topics. Contexts for innovation, discusses how various regions and localized social capital can impact innovation processes in firms. Disruptive innovation discusses how technologies initially serving low-end customers, through gradual innovation, can take over and disrupt whole industries.

Students will gain both an overview of the literature in innovation teams and disruptive innovation, as well as more in depth knowledge in key areas. Successful students will achieve sufficient mastery in this area to be able to exploit this body of research in their own research projects, and to participate in international academic discourse.

This course is discussion based. This means that students are required to come prepared to discuss all the readings. Faculty will use introductory, intermittent and summary lectures to initiate, direct and lead the discussions of each topic in the course.