This free course, Technological innovation: a resource-based view, aims to provide you with an overview and introduction to a range of related concepts, ideas and debates which enable you to develop a critical understanding of capabilities in relation to technological innovation. It will enable you to develop a critical understanding of the development, management and application of some of the most important capabilities for technological innovation.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Introducing innovation
- 1 Introducing innovation
- 2 Innovation: adding value
- 2 Innovation: adding value
- 2.1 Discontinuous innovation
- 2.2 Innovation capabilities
- 3 The resource-based view of organisations
- 3 The resource-based view of organisations
- 3.1 Technological capability
- 3.2 Core and strategic capabilities
- 3.3 Continuing development
- 4 Anatomy of a capability
- 4 Anatomy of a capability
- 4.1 Skills and knowledge
- 4.2 Physical technical systems
- 4.3 Managerial systems
- 4.4 Values and norms
- 4.4.1 Organisational routines
- 4.4.2 Learning
- 5 Resources, competences and capabilities
- 5 Resources, competences and capabilities
- 5.1 Recognising a core competence/capability
- 5.2 Enabling capabilities
- 5.3 Supplemental capabilities
- 6 Core rigidities
- 6 Core rigidities
- 6.1 Managerial systems
- 6.2 Values and norms
- 6.3 Insularity
- 7 Core capabilities as knowledge assets
- 7 Core capabilities as knowledge assets
- 7.1 The human dimension
- 7.2 Knowledge creation: codification, abstraction and diffusion
- 7.2.1 Codification
- 7.2.2 Abstraction
- 7.2.3 Diffusion
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
