ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 4 Expository Class: 12 Interactive Classroom: 14 Total: 30
Use languages Galician (0.00%)
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Pharmacy
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable | 1st year (Yes)
This subject consists of two distinct but closely related parts. The first of them is aimed at introducing the student to the strategic aspects of innovation linked to the introduction of new products and the adoption of new technologies. The objective is to align the general strategy of the company with the generation and deployment of a coherent project portfolio, an aspect that represents precisely the second part of the subject. In it, students will be trained in the use of project planning and management tools, addressing both classical predictive methodologies and new agile methodologies, and considering their application to projects within the scope of the Master.
Exhibition class program (12 h)
BLOCK I. STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT.
1. The role of the Strategic Direction and the Management of technology and innovation
1.1. What is new in a knowledge intensive economy?
1.2. Beyond high technology defined by internal R&D: learning, market research, flows and distributed knowledge bases, innovation models.
1.3. Strategy design and implementation
2. External diagnosis: design of a technological surveillance and competitive intelligence system
2.1. VT / IC process according to UNE 166.006 and tools.
2.2. Analysis of current and future technology
2.3. Competition and strategic groups
2.4. Market requirements and tools to generate product and process specifications
3. Internal diagnosis: tools for the analysis of products, processes and technologies
3.1. An overview of internal analysis
3.2. Product analysis
3.3. Process mapping
3.4. Technological audit
4. Design of corporate and competitive strategy: technological innovation and business models
4.1. Where, how much and what kind of innovations are needed?
4.2. What is the role of technological strategy?
4.3. The golden rule: coherence.
5. Control of strategy, project portfolio and technology protection
5.1. Why and what to control? R&D Dashboard
5.2. Generation and selection of a project portfolio
5.3. Intellectual property and industrial property
6. Organization of strategy deployment: primary and operational structures
6.1. The starting point: the functional structure
6.2. Structural reform options
6.3. Adhocratization of the operational structure
7. Control systems and incentives to stimulate performance in R + D + i
7.1. Minimum required effort vs. voluntary effort: concepts and trade-offs
7.2. How to guarantee the “minimum effort required”?
7.3. How and how much does money motivate?
7.4. How to achieve the voluntary effort in R + D + i?
BLOCK II. PROJECTS MANAGEMENT
8. Introduction to classic project management.
8.1. Objectives of a Project.
8.2. Project management objectives.
8.3. Methodologies and standards for project management.
8.4. Project concepts: Scope, Tasks, Milestones, Resources, ...
8.5. Task decomposition structure (EDT).
8.6. Project planning: CPM and PERT methodologies.
8.7. Project programming: Principles and techniques.
8.8. Project resource management: Allocation and reserves.
8.9. Project risk assessment.
9. Agile project management methodologies
9.1. Principles of agile methodologies: advantages and disadvantages.
9.2. Incremental and iterative development.
9.3. SCRUM Methodology: Foundations and justification.
9.4. Development of a project with the SCRUM methodology.
Practical classes program (10 h)
Practice 1. Scenario planning.
Practice 2. Value Stream Mapping
Practice 3. Prisoner's dilemma applied to technological alliances
Practice 4. Synergies in group decision making
Practice 5. Breakdown of tasks for a standard project.
Practice 6. Planning and programming of projects.
Practice 7. Project resource management.
Practice 8. Development of a project with the SCRUM methodology.
Practice 9. Computerized tools to support project management.
Managing Innovation: Integrating technological, market and organizational change. J. Tidd, J. Bessant. Wiley, 2013.
Estrategia de innovación. E. Fernández Sánchez. Thomson, 2005.
Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from it. A. Davila, M.J. Epstein, R.D. Shelton. Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2013.
Oficina Técnica y Proyectos. F. Brusola Simón. Servicio Publicaciones Universidad Pol. Valencia, 2011.
El Arte de Dirigir Proyectos. A. Díaz Martín. 3ª Ed., RA-MA, D.L., Madrid, 2010.
Teoría y Metodología del Proyecto, E. Gómez-Senent Martínez, M.C. González Cruz. Servicio Publicaciones Universidad Pol. Valencia, 2008.
Gestión Integrada de Proyectos. M. Serer Figueroa. 3ª Ed. Ediciones UPC, Barcelona, 2010.
Current diverse documentation, in digital format, provided by the teaching staff of the subject on the topics covered in the subject.
Basic:
CB6: Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and / or application of ideas, often in a research context.
CB8: That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
CB9: That the students know how to communicate their conclusions –and the ultimate knowledge and reasons that support them– to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.
General:
CG4: Have the capacity to understand the regulation and social responsibilities derived from research, development and innovation in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
CG5: Have knowledge and skills to participate in research projects and scientific or technological collaborations, in interdisciplinary contexts and with a high component of knowledge transfer.
CG6: Have leadership capacity, creativity, initiative and entrepreneurial spirit.
CG8: Know how to apply the knowledge and skills acquired for planning and integrated project management.
CG9: Have oral and written communication skills and scientific interaction with professionals from other areas of knowledge.
Transverse:
CT1: Know how to propose a simple research project autonomously in Spanish and English.
CT2: Know how to develop collaborative work in multidisciplinary teams.
CT3: Use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a tool for the transmission of knowledge, results and conclusions in specialized fields in a clear and rigorous way.
CT4: Have the capacity to manage research, development and technological innovation in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
CT5: Know how to apply the principles contained in The European Charter & Code for Researchers.
Specific:
CE11: Know the steps to prepare, present and defend innovation projects in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, integrating knowledge protection and valuation strategies.
Theoretical classes with student participation.
Discussion of practical cases in seminars with the support of computer methods and a blackboard.
Problem-based learning
Oral presentations on previously prepared topics, followed by debate with the participation of students and teachers
Attendance at conferences or round tables
The classes will be taught from the University of Vigo and the student can move to the facilities of the University of Vigo, or attend by telematic means from a classroom at the University of Santiago.
The evaluation will consist of:
Exam about the basic contents of the subject (50% of the grade). The examination of the subject, which will be carried out on the date indicated in the corresponding course guide, will consist of short answer questions and problem solving. The maximum score will be 5 points. A minimum score of 2.5 points is required in this part for the scores of the other two items that are valued to be computed.
Active participation in seminars and practical classes (30% of the grade). Active participation in seminars and laboratory practices will be evaluated. This evaluation will be carried out through the resolution of questions and problems posed in class, the presentation of works and the intervention in the debates that may arise. The maximum score will be 3 points, and a minimum score of 1.3 points is required for the qualification of this item to be computed.
Oral presentations (20% of the grade). Expository clarity and the ability to answer the questions that will be asked will be evaluated. The maximum score will be 2 points, and a minimum score of 1 point is required for the grade of this item to be computed.
The hours of face-to-face training activities are 25. The hours of personal work of the student are estimated at 45.
The student must guide the study of the theoretical contents of the subject to understand, relate and reflect on them, with a view to their practical application in the context of the objectives of the Master. Active participation in practical activities is a key element for the student to achieve a better understanding of the aspects developed in the expository classes, thus developing a comprehensive training approach.