Overview ToT topics

Preparation• Managing Innovation – Tidd & Bessant– Introduction Innovation– Innovation process– Innovation management

• Start-up - Brezet and Christiaans– Challenge: innovative ideas for self-sufficent area– Cultural differences on innovation

Innovation• Kleinknecht– Economics of Innovation– Theories of Innovation– Indicators of Innovation– Full contents Master course Kleinknecht

• Scholten– Technological Innovation– BSc and MSc course elements

• Background papers

Practice

• Innovation projects BoP – JC Diehl (product/paradigm)

• Company Evening Breeze (position/product)• Superbus project (product/system)

• Using Intellectual Property databases to develop and assess innovation projects - v Harte & Harry

• Visit European Patent Office – search database

Entrepreneurship

• Smulders– Teaching Innovation theories through

experimental learning – Kolb learning cycle– Exploration – Exploitation , collaborative design

• Scholten– Corporate Entrepreneurship & Technology based

entrepreneurship – B Sc course• Blom/Vastbinder– Sustainable Entrepreneurship – Minor– Business model exercise