LBUSI4149 Innovation and Enterprise Course Descriptor

Course Overview

This course is for students across the university that may wish to undertake a study in the innovation and creativity processes and relate their understanding to enterprise. It provides a wider understanding of innovation beyond its manifestation in high technology businesses. It explores how innovation is conceived in different industries and how they can lead to a commercial reality. 

The course will help students learn the process of innovation and creativity in enterprise in general. It will explore the theories in the field and how innovation and creativity processes create new outcomes in start-up businesses, large firms, public organisations and social enterprise.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

Knowledge And Understanding

Subject Specific Skills

Transferable and Professional Skills

Teaching and Learning

Teaching and learning strategies for this course will include: 

A minimum of 36 contact hours, typically to include interactive group teaching, co-curriculars, individual meetings, in-class presentations and exams.

Course information and supplementary materials are available on the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

Students will receive individualised developmental feedback on their work for this course.

Students are required to attend and participate in all the formal and timetabled sessions for this course. Students are also expected to manage their directed learning and independent study in support of the course.

Assessment

Formative

Students will be formatively assessed in class through class activities, and during office hours. Formative assessments are ones that do not count towards the final grade but will provide students with developmental feedback. Specific formative assessment tasks will also be made available on the University VLE.

Summative

Further information on the structure of summative assessment elements can be found in the Summative Assessment Briefs.

Feedback

Students will receive feedback in a variety of ways: written (including via email correspondence); oral (within office hours or on an ad hoc basis) and indirectly through class discussion.

Indicative Reading

Note: Comprehensive and current reading lists for courses are produced annually in the Course Syllabus or other documentation provided to students; the indicative reading list provided below is used as part of the approval/modification process only.

Journal articles

“Models of Innovation: Startups and Mature Corporations” by John Freeman and Jerome S. Engel California Management Review  (2007) 50, 119 – 94. 

“The Counter-Conventional Mindsets of Entrepreneurs” by John Mullins, Business Horizons (2017) 60, 597-610.

“What is Disruptive Innovation” by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, Rory McDonald. Harvard Business Review 93, no. 12 (December 2015): 44–53

“Why design thinking works” by Jeanne Liedtka. Harvard Business Review (2018). 96(5), 72-79.

Electronic Resources

IDEO content on innovation and design (https://www.ideo.com/)

ENTR 2301 articles from NEU library: to be available to students

Harvard Business Publishing (https://hbsp.harvard.edu/): articles source

Open Library website. Tuckman’s Model for team development

Indicative Topics

Students will study the following topics: 

• Innovation types and the creative process in different business contexts
• Open innovation
• Destructive innovation
• Design thinking
• Entrepreneurship and innovation 

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