| Kursusnavn (dansk): | Innovation and Technology in Society with Project |
| Kursusnavn (engelsk): | Innovation and Technology in Society with Project |
| Semester: | Efterår 2013 |
| Udbydes under: | cand.it., Digital Innovation & Management (dim) |
| Omfang i ECTS: | 15,00 |
| Kursussprog: | Engelsk |
| Kursushjemmeside: | https://learnit.itu.dk |
| Min. antal deltagere: | 12 |
| Forventet antal deltagere: | 20 |
| Maks. antal deltagere: | 20 |
| Formelle forudsætninger: | Please note that this course is only available for students enrolled in the programme Digital Innovation & Management. |
| Læringsmål: | Having completed the course, the student should be able to:
- Discuss classical and modern theories of innovation including their relevance for analysing the development of information and communication technologies.
- Characterize key conceptual perspectives and methodological approaches which have been central to the development and growth of social studies of science and technology.
- Analyse and critically reflect over the challenges and complexities of technological innovation including issues of governance and regulation.
- Apply different perspectives within the sociology and economics of science and innovation to particular cases of technological development with special reference to IT solutions.
- Account for the political, cultural and ethical dimensions of innovation in society.
- Reflect over the political and commercial issues arising out of different patterns of expert-lay and technological producer-user relations. |
| Fagligt indhold: | The course will provide the students with theoretical perspectives and conceptual tools to analyze the relations between it-innovation and society. The course will enable the students to conceptualize, and critically and constructively reflect on, innovation projects and processes, including their own potential roles in such projects. The core perspectives taught in the course are sociological, historical, and socio-technical. The course will also address the role of science in innovation, analysis and design of information-infrastructures, technology transfer, and vision-process. |
| Læringsaktiviteter: | Teaching will consist of a mixture of lectures and exercises while the students will investigate an historical or topical case that involves innovation, technology and society. In the 15 Point version of the ITS course, compared to the 7.5 ECTS-version, the students participate in extra guidance and seminar activities |
| Obligatoriske aktivititer: | Synopsis with project plan to be handed in at one point during the semester. |
| Eksamensform og -beskrivelse: | X. experimental examination form (7-scale; external exam), 7-trins-skala, Intern censur The exam consists of hand-in by groups of one to four students. A report written by one student should be 20 pages. The report written by groups of 2-4 persons must consist of an introduction of 3 pages and a conclusion of 3 pages, both with shared responsibility and 17 pages essay from each, individual responsibility. In the 15 ECTS-version of the ITS course, compared to the 7.5 ECTS-version, the students will expand the syllabus with academic literature of approximately 400 pages. Students will spend app. 20 hours a week on the course compared to 10 hours for the 7.5-version of the course, and hence the problem scope and size of the empirical material analyzed is required to be substantially larger than with the 7.5 ECTS-course.
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| Litteratur udover forskningsartikler: | To be announced. |
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