Teaching

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age, MSc

Instructor, A.Y. 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2024/2025

The course enables students to understand what a digital start up is, how it differs from more traditional companies, and its major challenges and how to approach them. This objective is delivered through theoretical face-to-face lectures, hands-on case studies illustrating the emergence and the evolution of digital start-ups and talks by experienced external guests. A primary goal of the course is to push students to grasp the key entrepreneurial drivers of success and failure in the digital age, raising relevant questions and developing possible answers. A second important goal is related to the development of students’ ability to work in groups to deliver detailed and timely outcomes.

Business Economics Module II (Analytic Methods), MSc

Instructor, A.Y. 2021/2022
TA, A.Y. 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2024/2025

This course introduces the fundamental tools of microeconomics for studying strategic interactions and the provision of the incentives at multiple levels of analysis: within firms; between partners in alliances; between firms interacting in the market; and between firms, users, and providers in platform-based ecosystems. The course focuses on the development and application of conceptual and formal models rooted in the main theoretical developments in the fields of management, strategy, and organizational economics. Yet the course differs from a typical economics course in several ways. It follows modern strategy frameworks that emphasize the tension between value creation and value capture and exposes students to a range of formal models and concrete problems faced by firms. The course is also largely focused on innovation processes. To innovate, firms must compete but also collaborate with others (engaging in R&D races, forming alliances, embracing an open innovation model, etc.); they can join or create and orchestrate ecosystems; and they must al-so incentivize knowledgeable employees. Students will learn to use analytical frameworks to assess innovation-based strategies within and between firms, in both entrepreneurial and established firms.

Technology and Innovation Strategy, MSc

TA, A.Y. 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2024/2025

The course develops student’s understanding of how firms use technology and innovation to position themselves strategically, from the perspective of a Director of Business Development. It pays specific attention to the digital transformation which is impacting all industries in the recent years. For this purpose, it relies heavily on cases and examples, dealing with firms which have faced the challenges of managing innovation, technology strategy, and the digital transformation. Students are asked to actively participate in class discussions to confront the implications of technology and innovation on a firm’s strategy and to understand actions and reactions by Directors of Business Development when technology and innovation originate within the firm as well as when they change exogenously the environment where the firm operates.

Technology and Innovation Management, MBA

TA, A.Y. 2023/2024, 2024/2025

Over the past two decades industry trends worldwide point to an increasingly active role of technology start-ups as one the key drivers of economic change. Thanks to exponential advancements in information and communication technologies, such innovative young enterprises have introduced radically new products & services and fundamentally uprooted entire industries. This dizzying pace of change has seen the fall of established giants and the emergence of a new eco-system of tech-enabled ventures pursuing disruptive change in virtually all industrial sectors. This course aims to develop the students’ understanding of how new entrepreneurial firms leverage technology and innovation to disrupt established industries. It looks at some fundamental questions such as: why do startups play such disproportionate role in driving technology-enabled change? which are the key success factors in the growth of the tech startup phenomenon? what are the key characteristics and ingredients for success in such firms?

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