No prerequisites

a) Knowledge and contents: Knowledge of innovation key success factors. Konwledge of intellectual property law and its implications for industrial design b) Skills Ability to apply inovation management tools, and to evaluate decisions on intellectual and industrial property protection. Ability to identify problems and needs in the business environment and address them by means of innovative products and process improvements. c) Competences: Discover and lead innovations related to industrial design. Judgement to address the requirements of innovative business ideas.

Part 1: 1. Concepts, sources, and types of innovation 2. Adoption and difussion of innovations 3. Technological innovation and its types 4. New product development 5. Technological co-operation 6. Open innovation and its characteristics 7. Financing innovation Part 2: 8. Protecting innovation 9. Key intellectual and industrial property concepts 100. Exploitation of new technologies

Teaching methods: TM1 - Lectures with the support of computer-based and audiovisual media: development of key concepts and reference to bibliographical materials. TMCritical readings ok key texts: press articles, reports, textbooks and/or academic papers, either for in-class discussion or out-of-class revision of the module contents. TM3 - Case studies, exercises, etc., which will be solved either individually or in teams TM4 - Presentation and in-class discussion of relevant topics or case studies. TM5 - Individual and/or team essays and reports Formative activities: FA1 - Theoretical lecture FA2 - Practical seminar FA5 - Individual student work FA6 - Tutorials FA7 - Exams