Syllabus for a course based on Innovation Management:
Strategies, Implementation, and Profits by Allan Afuah
A 14-Week Case-Based Course
Outline
� Goal
� Class 1: Introduction.
� Class 2: Sources and transfer of innovation.
� Class 3: Subject: Static models of innovation.
� Class 4: Subject: Incumbent/New entrant race for technology and
complementary assets.
� Class 5: Dynamic models of innovation.
� Class 6: Strategic decisions early in the life of an
innovation.
� Class 7: Competing technologies and Standards.
� Class 8: Pause for reflection.
� Class 9: Strategy, Structure, Systems, People, and Environment
(S3PE).
� Class 10: Recognizing the potential of innovation/Leveraging
technological capabilities.
� Class 11: Locating a profit site.
� Class 12: Multibusiness from an emerging technology (Corporate
innovation).
� Class 13: Implementation of the decision to adopt an
innovation.
� Class 14: Exploration/Exploitation.
� Class 15: Who really are your co-opetitors in the face of a
technological change?
� Class 16: Pause for reflection.
� Class 17: Strategies for protecting innovation profits.
� Class 18: The role of government in innovation.
� Class 19: Strategies for globalization.
� Class 20: Innovating for emerging economies.
� Class 21: Financing innovation.
� Class 22: Strategic Innovation Process.
� Class 23~26: Project Presentations.
� Class 27: Review: Where have we been?
� Class 28: Final Wrap-up.
� Project Note: Writing cases in innovation.
