Corporate Strategy in the Knowledge Society (Names from A to K)

llsmf2015  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Corporate Strategy in the Knowledge Society (Names from A to K)
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Coeurderoy Régis; Neysen Nicolas (compensates Vas Alain); Vas Alain;
Language
English
Prerequisites
Ideally in terms of competiencies : Knowledge of the basin concepts of management.
Main themes
The design and implementation of innovation-based strategies
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 By the end of the class, students should master the main concepts underlying the development of corporate strategy in innovation-intensive competitive environments
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
  • The challenges related to the strategic management of innovation, from a corporate perspective in the context of the rising importance of the knowledge economy
  • Innovation and invention : definitions and typology
  • The core capabilities of the strategic management of innovations
  • The growing importance of multi-sided platform-based markets
Teaching methods
In-class activities 
  • Lectures
  • Micro-teaching (partly presented by students)
  • Work on case-work
At home activities
  • Readings to prepare the lecture
  • Work on case-work
  • Students presentation
Evaluation methods
Continuous evaluation (60%)
  • Sudents' case work by group (30%)
  • BOSS simulation  (continuous evaluation) (30%)
Evaluation week (40%)
  • Oral: No
  • Written: final 2h final exam (40%)
  • Note: each student must get a minimum grade of 7.5 out of 20 at the individual final exam to pass the course
Examination: second session
  • If too few students are registered for the second session examination, the written exam will be replaced by an oral exam.
Other information
Additional information on calendaring and group work methods will be provided during the course.
Online resources
All interactions on teaching materials, references and processing of case works and presentations is managed on Moodle.
Bibliography
  • Reference list : distributed during the course.
  • Lecture slides : available on Moodle
Faculty or entity
CLSM


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] : Business Engineering