OFIN 33A55 - Innovation Management

OFIN 33A55 · Spring semester 2025-2026

Language of tuition
English
Course type
Cours séminaire
Number of hours
12
Credits
2

Information

Description

From ideation to commercialization, how do brands invent, create and market new and

successful products and services?

Inventing and launching new products is one of the most challenging parts of innovation.

When only 3% of new product launches are true successes, is there a golden road to success?

This course will look at the innovation management processes, techniques and best practices

in both the corporate and start-up worlds - covering many successes and failures as examples,

trying to draw insightful conclusions with contributions from experts.

You will discover and be inspired by new technologies or successful business models based

on innovative initiatives and learn how to process innovation in a fruitful way.

Prerequisites

Fluency in English - in persons sessions - active participation

Teaching format

This Innovation Management masterclass consists of 6 two-hour in-person sessions,

structured around a clear thematic progression.

Each session systematically combines theoretical input, practical implementation through real world cases and educational games, analysis of current innovations, and interventions from

professionals (founders, investors, corporate executives).

Students primarily work in groups and actively participate in discussions.

Additional resources (articles, reference books) are provided to deepen understanding of each

theme.

An optional visit to a company's laboratory or innovation showroom is organized outside of

class hours

Assessment

30% duo grade for a written work

40% group grade for the business case

30% individual grade for class participation

Workload

6 sessions, 12 hours, 2 ECTS

Readings

Main readings 3

  1. A Technique for Producing Ideas, by James Webb Young

  2. Competing against luck, the story of innovation and customer choice by Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David S. Duncan

  3. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries

Further readings 5

  1. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to create uncontensted marketspace and make competition irrelevant by Kim, Mauborgne

  2. On Innovation, HBR’s 10 must-reads

  3. Trend-Driven innovation, by Mason, Mattin, Luthy and Dumitrescu

  4. Winning at new products, by Cooper

  5. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel

Teaching units

Unit no.Unit type Teaching unitsTeachers Number of hoursCredits
59003Cours séminaire Innovation Management Philippe GOLDMAN122

Teachers

  • Philippe GOLDMAN

In the curricula

Contacts and resources

Contact
CHABANE Lilia