Introducing technology and innovation management

This free course will introduce you to technology and innovation management and is relevant to managers and students of technological innovation. You will learn about innovation types and processes, how innovation can add or create value, and about the management activities that underpin the innovation and value creation process. You do not need to have worked in a technology and innovation field, or have any prior knowledge to be able to complete this course. This content forms part of the Dangoor Education collection, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course TB801 Technology and Innovation Management.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 The significance of technological innovation
• 1 The significance of technological innovation
• 2 What is innovation?
• 2 What is innovation?
• 3 Definitions of innovation: the process and types
• 3 Definitions of innovation: the process and types
• 4 Thinking about product innovation
• 4 Thinking about product innovation
• 5 Thinking about process innovation
• 5 Thinking about process innovation
• 6 Thinking about system innovation
• 6 Thinking about system innovation
• 7 Additional ways to characterise innovations
• 7 Additional ways to characterise innovations
• 8 Innovation process: how innovation happens in an organisation
• 8 Innovation process: how innovation happens in an organisation
• 9 Innovation diffusion process
• 9 Innovation diffusion process
• 10 Adding value through innovation
• 10 Adding value through innovation
• 11 Sceptical voices
• 11 Sceptical voices
• 12 Innovation management
• 12 Innovation management
• 13 Tick the PTOC factors!
• 13 Tick the PTOC factors!
• 14 Check your learning
• 14 Check your learning
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• References
• Acknowledgements