HISTORY OF INNOVATION

In conformità con gli obiettivi del Corso di Laurea in Innovation and Marketing, il corso intende fornire agli studenti una riflessione sul concetto di innovazione tecnologica e organizzativa in una prospettiva storica e multidisciplinare.
I docenti introdurranno gli studenti al dibattito storico sull'innovazione tecnica e organizzativa e forniranno loro gli strumenti teorici base per studiare e comprendere l'innovazione facendo riferimento ai contributi degli storici economici e di impresa e dei sociologi della tecnologia.
Gli studenti saranno guidati nella lettura critica di casi di studio storici e contemporanei.

1) Gli studenti avranno una comprensione di base dell'innovazione come frutto dell'interazione tra gruppi sociali rilevanti, individui e istituzioni
2) Gli studenti avranno una conoscenza base del dibattito storico economico relativo a innovazione tecnica e organizzativa e imprenditoria
3) Gli studenti otterranno un'infarinatura dei concetti alla base della sociologia della tecnologia con particolare riferimento alla costruzione sociale della tecnologia e agli STS studies
4) gli studenti sapranno analizzare casi di studio storici e contemporanei alla luce delle teorie apprese

Ottima conoscenza della lingua inglese

1) Innovation: A few things I (need to) know about it
2) Innovation in Pre-industrial business: Guilds and innovation
How does product innovation come about?
3) Imitation and Invention in the Industrial Revolution
4) How does product innovation come about? The Consumption Junction. Insights from sociology of technology
5) How does product innovation come about? Food innovation in 20th century
6) Which is the role played by institutions in promoting or hindering innovation?
Manufacturing property rights in the Venetian Republic
7) Which is the role played by institutions in promoting or hindering innovation?
National Systems of Innovation
8) From the standpoint of the family: the industrious revolution (De Vries)
9) Who is the innovator? A theory of entrepreneurship as innovation
10) When a firm is innovative? which is the role of entrepreneur? The innovator - entrepreneur
11) The three phases of marketing: Ford and Sloan
12) Innovation in electronics: the roots of the third industrial revolution
13) Circulation of Models and Innovation in Distribution (again on imitation and innovation)
14) Again on property right and innovation: the history of British videogame industry
15) A new sustainable life for Indian handloom textile

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Berg, Maxine. “From Imitation to Invention: Creating Commodities in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” The Economic History Review 55, no. 1 (2002): 1–30. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3091813 .
Pinch T. and W. Bijker, The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts in The Social Construction of Technological Systems, MIT Press, 1987 pp. 28-50
Schwartz Cowan R., The Consumption Junction: A proposal for research strategies in the Sociology of Technology, in The Social Construction of Technological Systems, MIT Press, 1987 pp. 261- 281
Spiekermann, Uwe. “Twentieth-Century Product Innovations in the German Food Industry.” The Business History Review 83, no. 2 (2009): 291–315. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40538844 .
Favero G., Innovation as Import Substitution: The Logic of Industrial Privileges in 18th Century Venetian Ceramics
Charles Edsquit, Systems of Innovation. Perspectives and challenges, Oxford Handbook of Innovation, pp 181-209
De Vries, Jan. “The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution.” The Journal of Economic History 54, no. 2 (1994): 249–70. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2123912 .
Langlois R., Schumpeter and the Obsolescence of the Entrepreneur, WP, 2002
Bill Lazonick, The innovative firm, Oxford Handbook of Innovation, 29-56
T. McCraw, R. Tedlow, Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan and the Three Phases of Marketing in T. McCraw, Creating Modern Capitalism, pp. 26
Olegario R., IBM and the Two Thomas Watsons in T. McCraw, Creating Modern Capitalism, pp. 351-393
Bernstein J., 7 Eleven in America and Japan, in T. McCraw, Creating Modern Capitalism, 492-529
Tsang, D. (2021). Innovation in the British Video Game Industry since 1978. Business History Review, 95(3), 543-567. doi:10.1017/S0007680521000398
W. Bijker, A. Mamidipudi, Innovation in Indian Handloom Weaving, T&C, vol. 59, 3 (2018)

Evaluation: written exam (open question) or analysis of case study
Assessment methods
1) Written exam
One open question or analysis and comment of a case study
Time: 2 hours

Frontal lessons\ class discussion of case studies

scritto

Questo insegnamento tratta argomenti connessi alla macroarea "Città, infrastrutture e capitale sociale" e concorre alla realizzazione dei relativi obiettivi ONU dell'Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile