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4199: Advanced Innovation and Entrepreneurship Theory ( forår 2009 - 10 ECTS )

Rammer for udbud

  • Uddannelsessprog: engelsk
  • Niveau:   COURSE LEVEL: Optional ph.d./master's course (first year course for 4+4 ph.d.students)  
  • Semester/kvarter:   SEMESTER FOR WHICH THE COURSE DESCRIPTION APPLIES: Spring 2009  
  • Timer per uge:   NUMBER OF HOURS PER WEEK: Varying, but the work load is equivalent to a 10 ECTS course.  
  • Deltagerbegrænsning:   RESTRICTIONS ON ADMISSION: All students should have passed "Theories of the Firm" and "Innovation". Further it is recommended that students have passed either "Entrepreneurship in the Experience Economy" or "User-driven Innovation".  
  • Undervisningssted: Århus
  • Hovedområde: Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
  • Udbud ID: 15940

Formål

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

After the course the students can:

  • Apply relevant theories of innovation and entrepreneurship to the solution of problems within firm, regions or nations
  • Theorize, generalize, hypothesize, reflect and synthesize upon classical and new streams of research in innovation and entrepreneurship, building on either theories of innovation within existing firms - or theories of entrepreneurship

 

Indhold

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course is a continuation of "Innovation", and to some extent of the "Entrepreneurship in the Experience Economy" and "Organizational Change" courses. It focuses on the one hand on seminal publications and on the other hand on newly published research on innovation and entrepreneurship.

Organized around the topics of "Economics and Innovation", "Entrepreneurship and the Austrians", "Innovation and social network theory", Entre-preneurship and Intra-preneurship" and "the individual-opportunity nexus", we read and discuss classical and new papers, which have been published in for example in "Journal of Business Venturing" and "Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice". Based on theses readings and discussions, relevant anomalies and problems are identified as a starting point for research. After a few weeks the participants start producing an academic paper of their own.

 

 

COURSE SUBJECT AREAS:

  • Introduction and identification of relevant papers
  • Reading and discussions of papers including the writing of short reviews
  • Identification of relevant anomalies and problems as a starting point for research
  • Writing and presentations of own papers

 

Faglige forudsætninger

 

REQUIRED COURSES:

"Theories of the Firm" and "Innovation" are required courses. Further, it is required that students have passed at least one of the courses "Entrepreneurship in the Experience Economy" or "User-driven innovation".

 

Underviser

 

LECTURER: Per Blenker, Claus Thrane-Jensen, Kristina Risom Jespersen

 

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

 

 

TEACHING METHOD:

Self-study, presentations, discussions, and the production of an academic paper.

 

 

TEACHING LANGUAGE: English

 

Litteratur

LITERATURE:

  1. ALVAREZ, S. A. & BARNEY, J. B. (2007) Discovery and Creation: Alternative Theories of Entrepreneurial Action. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 1, 11-26.
  2. ARDICHVILI, A., CARDOZO, R. & RAY, S. (2003) A Theory of Entrepreneurial Opportunity Identification and Development. Journal of Business Venturing, 18, 105-123.
  3. BERGLUND, H. (2007) Opportunities as Existing and Created: A Study of Entrepreneurs in the Swedish Mobile Internet Industry. Journal of Enterprising Culture, 15, 243.
  4. CHIASSON, M. & SAUNDERS, C. (2005) Reconciling diverse approaches to opportunity research using the structuration theory. Journal of Business Venturing, 20, 747-767.
  5. DIMOV, D. (2007) Beyond the Single-Person, Single-Insight Attribution in Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunities. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 31, 713-731.
  6. DUTTA, D. K. & CROSSAN, M. M. (2005) The Nature of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Understanding the Process Using the 4I Organizational Learning Framework. Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, 29, 425-449.
  7. ECKHARDT, J. T. & SHANE, S. A. (2003) Opportunities and Entrepreneurship. Journal of Management, 29, 333-349.
  8. FLETCHER, D. E. (2006) Entrepreneurial processes and the social construction of opportunity. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 18, 421-440.
  9. GARTNER, W., B (2001) Is there an elephant in entrepreneurship? Blind assumptions in theory development. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  10. GARTNER, W., B., CARTER, N. M. & HILLS, G. E. (2003) The Language of Opportunity. IN STEYAERT, C. & HJORTH, D. (Eds.) New Movements in Entrepreneurship. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar.
  11. SARASON, Y., DEAN, T. & DILLARD, J. F. (2006) Entrepreneurship as the nexus of individual and opportunity: A structuration view. Journal of Business Venturing, 21, 286-305.
  12. SARASVATHY, S. D. (2001a) Causation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift from Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingency. Academy of Management Review, 26, 243-264.
  13. SARASVATHY, S. D. et al. (2002) Three views of entrepreneurial opportunity. Ivited book chapter in the Entrepreneurship Handbook edited by Acs et al. (2002)
  14. SHANE, S. (2000) Prior Knowledge and the Discovery of Entrepreneurial Opportunities. Organization Science, 11, 448.
  15. SHANE, S. (2003) A General Theory of Entrepreneurship: The Individual-Opportunity Nexus, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar. (Appr. 300 pages)
  16. SHANE, S. & VENKATARAMAN, S. (2000) The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research. Academy of Management Review, 25, 217-226.
  17. STEYAERT, C. (2007) Entrepreneuring as a conceptual attractor? A review of process theories in 20 years of entrepreneurship studies. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 19, 453 - 477.
  18. Ucbasaran, D., Westhead, P. & Wright, M. (2001) The focus of entrepreneurial research: Contextual and process issues. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

 

 

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FORM OF ASSESSMENT:

Oral examination of 25 minutes' duration with 25 minutes' preparation time. One mandatory paper has to be handed in to the lecturers and has to be passed before the oral exam. In addition each student also has to pass two oral presentations before the oral exam.

 

EXAMINATION AIDS ALLOWED: All - except any means of electronic communication equipment including PCs