inov 2011 moodle

Classes: Thursdays, 17 to 20 hr. EDAM MIT Portugal Room (aka A2)

• SLIDES - 0: Gapminder.org: a tool for discovery

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• SLIDES - 1: ABC of economic growth

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• SLIDES - 2: Competition and innovation

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• SLIDES - 3: Ideas and institutions: new growth theory

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• SLIDES - 4: Mechanisms of innovation

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• SLIDES 5 - ATP

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• SLIDES 6a - Ford, model T and the Selden patent

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• SLIDES 6b - Tucker

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• SLIDES 7 - R&D: USA

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• SLIDES 8 - Technology and social battlefields

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• News forum

Topic 1
Class #1: introduction to the course.

Innovation 2010 course: students should upload a photo and write a short cv to their profile (what is your education? what professional experience do you have?). Thanks. EB.

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• Assignment #1 / 2011

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• Oral collection: 2010 interviews (selection)

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• "Understanding world changes: Gapminder and others" (class note, EB) (*)

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• "Schumpeter: creative destruction" (class note, EB) (*)

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Topic 2
Class #2: ABC of economic growth
(*) materials are mandatory reading. Non (*) materials are complementar.

• "Simulation of Solow neoclassic growth model" (class note, EB) (*)

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• "Solow model" (spreadsheet, EB)

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• "Solow model of economic growrh" (class note, NYU)

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• "Sources of economic growth" (class note, NYU)

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Topic 3
Class #3: Neoclassical growth models; innovation in manufacturing

• "Intro to business case analysis ..." (class note, EB)

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• "Johson Controls ... " (case HBS) (*)

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• "Henry Ford and the birth of automobile mass production (B)" Class note (EB) (*)

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• Nippon Detroit (BBC film)

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Topic 4
Class #4: New growth theories: ideas and increasing returns

• "Henry Ford and the birth of automobile mass production (A)" Class note (EB) (*)

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• "Henry Ford and the birth of automobile mass production (C)" Class note (EB) (*)

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• "From hamburgers to Whopper to BigMac" (B) (*)

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• "From hamburgers to Whopper to BigMac" (C) (*)

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• Baumol, Cap. 1, "On the engine of free market growth" (*)

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• Rommer, P., "Economic grouwth" (2007) (*)

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• "Increasing returns ..." (HBR, 1996)

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Topic 5
Class #5: Good and bad innovation; Social mechanisms of innovation

• "Henry Ford and the birth of automobile mass production (B)" Class note (EB) (*)

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• "McDonald's french fries" (Class note, EB) (*)

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• Hargadon, "How breakthroughs happen" (2008) (cap. 1) (*)

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Topic 6
Class #6: Innovation, social networks and creativity

• "Nypro" (HBS case) (*)

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• "The story behind the story of Apollo XIII" (Class note, EB)

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• Apollo XIII movie (until 26 January)

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• Koestler: "Three domains of creativity" (*)

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• "The organization and architecture of innovation" (Allen & Henn)

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Topic 7
Class #7: Science, technology, engineering; disruptive technologies

• Synthes case (HBS) (*)

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• "In Medicine, new isn't always improved" (NYT, 25.6.11)

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• APT case

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• APT movie (BBC)

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• "Disruptive technologies" (Christenson book, introduction, 1979) (*)

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• "Summary of key concepts" (Christensen et al, "Seeing what's next", 2004) (*)

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• "Innovation and competition in scholar information services ... " (EB, in portuguese)

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• "... função disruptiva do "search" " (...disruptive function of search) (EB blog)

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• "Morte de um grande inovador" (Death of great innovator) (EB, blog)

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• "Do monorail ao APT e à Segway, em cem anos" (From monorail to APT and Segway, in a century) (EB blog)

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• "Michael Polanyi (1960): Ciencia - académica e industrial" (WP88,EB)

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• "Science: academic and industrial" (Michael Polanyi, 1960) (*)

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Topic 8
Class #8:

• "Microfridge" case (*)

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• Movie "Tucker" (download until to 30 January)

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• "Microfridge: the execution" (DBS case) (*)

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Topic 9
Class #9:

• Workshop "My years with ..."

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• "Ultimo bra" (BBC movie) (download until 7th February)

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• "Michele Mona and MGM Int." case (*)

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• " ... searching for the right bra", class note, EB

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• Assignment #2 (groups)

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Topic 10
Class #10:

• "Dead poets society" movie (download until 8th February)

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• Engenheiros: inovar versus descobrir, os "papers" e as "coisas" (EB blog) ("Engineers: innovation versus discovery, papers and things")

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• "I&D e empresas:USA versus Portugal" (EB, in portuguese) ("R&D and business: USA versus Portugal") (*)

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• "Portugal: uma economia de não inovadores?" (EB) (Portugal: an economy of non innovators?)

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Topic 11
Class #11:

• "Startup.com" movie (download until 7 February)

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• "Mapear conhecimento e inovação em Portugal" (Heitor et al, 2004)

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• "Breve sumário sobre CIS2 e CIS3" (*) (Short summary of CIS3 and CIS4)

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• "O que dizem os inobarometros (2001/2/3)?" (*) (What do innobarometers say?)

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• "... the construction of high tech indicators" (Godin, 2004) (*)

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• "Medir inovação: os equívocos do manual de Oslo" (eBeiraLOG)

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• "I&D empresarial em Portugal" (eBeiraLOG) (Business R&D in Portugal)

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• "R&D in education: some facts" (*) (eBeiraLOG)

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• "Business R&D and economic sectors" (*) (eBeiraLOG)

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• "Intensity of R&D in different sectors" (*) (eBeiraLOG)

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• "R&D and size of firms" (*) eBeiraLOG)

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• "RorD, not RandD" (*) (eBeiraLOG)

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• "A door must be either open or shut. A little philosophy of technique" (Bruno Latour, 1995) (*)

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