Managing & organizing open innovation

As a student, you are embarking on a journey towards a more sustainable and innovative future, one that begins with an introduction to the concept of collaborative innovation and its practical application across different levels. 
We will explore the realm of open innovation with a specific focus on its connection to sustainability. Through three modules, we will provide you with a comprehensive overview of the core topics, bridging theory with real-world practice. This course equips you with essential knowledge and collaborative skills crucial for addressing grand challenges and seizing innovative opportunities to address them.

This course will introduce open innovation as a model of collaborative innovation that assumes that knowledge for innovation is distributed, and organizations need to rely on knowledge flows within and across their organizational boundaries. In the course, we will discuss the fundamental aspects of the open innovation at three different levels:

• Micro: Collaborative innovation at the individual and team level which encompasses cognition and culture, team dynamics, OI leadership, and trust.
• Meso: Collaborative innovation at the organizational and inter-organizational level which encompasses strategic decisions, business models, coopetition.
• Macro: Collaborative innovation at the system level which encompasses innovation ecosystems, orchestrations, systemic value creation, and mission-oriented innovations.

At each level we provide an overview of the antecedents, process and impact of open innovation, as well as possible contingencies that play a role. In doing so, we will put specific emphasis on the potential role of open innovation in addressing business and societal challenges. Overall, we will try to create a bridge between collaborative innovation theory and practice by using both concepts from literature and examples from the real world, and combining them in lectures, tutorials, discussions, and assignments. 

You will learn theory through self-studies facilitated by lectures.. To enhance your understanding, you will engage in discussions during tutorials led by experts and practitioners.  

To apply what you've learned, we'll have you work on group projects based on real-life cases. These projects will lead to group assignments and final report. Additionally, coaching sessions will offer feedback on your group assignments, helping you refine your project.

**Additional information
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Resources for selfstudy (articles) will be available on Canvas.

After completing this course, you'll be able to:

1. Explain the main attributes of the open innovation model.
2. Understand the open innovation implementation across three levels of analysis.
3. Identify antecedents, processes and outcomes of open innovation in individual, organizational and system level.
4. Evaluate different collaborative innovation approaches, taking sustainability perspective into consideration.
5. Design an open innovation framework across three levels for the company.

You must meet one of the following collections of requirements

• Collection 1
• Completed Final examination Bsc program
• Completed none of the course modules listed below
• Open innovation (1ZSUB0)
• Collection 2
• Completed Pre-Master
• Completed none of the course modules listed below
• Open innovation (1ZSUB0)

• Selection of academic articles