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Innovation Management in Business<\/h1>\n\n\n

Program:<\/strong>  Bachelor of Business and Administration (Specialisations: Business, Finance, Governance)<\/a>
ECTS:<\/strong>  4
Lecturer:<\/strong>  Witold Kwasnicki
Email: <\/strong> witold.kwasnicki@uwr.edu.pl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Type: <\/strong> Compulsory
Level: <\/strong> Elementary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lecture<\/strong>
Number of hours:<\/strong>  2h X 10 weeks = 20 hours (1 semester)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Biography of the Professor<\/strong>
Witold Kwa\u015bnicki is a professor of economics at the Institute of Economic Sciences at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, University of Wroclaw (head of the Department of General Economic Theory). In 1976, he graduated from the Faculty of Electronics Wroclaw University of Technology, and got Master\u2019s Degree with specialization in electronics engineering \u2013 \u2018cybernetics systems\u2019. In 1980, he defended his PhD thesis on Simulation of a certain class of evolutionary processes of development, at the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, Wroclaw University of Technology. In 1995, he habilitated at University of Economics in Wroclaw obtaining his habilitation in economic sciences with specialization \u2018theory of economic growth\u2019. His research interests are evolutionary economics, innovation processes, economic growth theory, history of economic thought. As he usually is saying: \u201cI am an engineer and an economist by education and libertarian by conviction\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Requirements for passing a course<\/strong>
Written exam, three questions from the list below, to pass a student needs 50 %, for B \u2013 70 %, for A \u2013 90 %<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exam questions<\/strong>
1. Why American engineers selected \u2018Electrification\u2019 as the most important innovation in the 20th century? 
2. Basic analogies between \u2018Gold rush\u2019 and \u2018Initial stages of Electrification\u2019 to the internet evolution (Jeff Bezos on the next web innovation). 
3. Contribution of Saracens to development of science and technology. 
4. Learning versus Teaching: what does it mean to Saracens \u2018educational policy\u2019? 
5. What are the main achievements (innovations) of Eli Whitney, which changed America? 
6. Basic principles of innovation process in Google company. 
7. Why innovation of spectacles were so important for western civilization development? 
8. Moore\u2019s Law \u2013 Basic Message. 
9. Inventions, innovation, imitation, discovery \u2013 general definitions. 
10. Process and product innovation \u2013 definitions, and relative importance in different phases of industrial evolution (time). 
11. Intrapreneureship \u2013 basic notions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources<\/strong>
\u2022 Joe Tidd and John Bessant, Manging Innovation. Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change
\u2022 Lecture notes: http:\/\/kwasnicki.prawo.uni.wroc.pl\/?page_id=1209<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Classes<\/strong>
\u2022 H.G. Weaver, The Mainspring of Human Progress: please read: Contribution of Saracens, Learning versus Teaching, Priceless Zero, Advances in Medicine, The Saracens Invade Europe (pp. 104-110), Ch. 18 Inventive progress (pp. 211-236)
\u2022 Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity, Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!, Ken Robinson: How to escape education\u2019s death valley, Three Reasons Why Dutch Children Are the Happiest Children
\u2022 Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity; The Importance of Free Speech to Human Progress
\u2022 Government Spending on \u201cInnovation\u201d: The True Cost Is Higher Than You, see also here, and here.
We Could Have Had Cell Phones 40 Years Earlier
\u2022 The Power of the Free Market, How the FAA is Killing Drone Innovation
\u2022 Navi Radjou: Creative problem-solving in the face of extreme limits; Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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