Course outline

School

Economics & Social Sciences

Department

Business Administration

Level of Studies

Undergraduate

Course code

803

Semester

8^ο

Course title

Digital and Urban Innovation

INDEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Weekly teaching hours
-

ECTS

4

5

Type of course

Compulsory

Prerequisite course

Language of instruction and exams

Greek

The course is offered to Erasmus students

ΝΟ

Course URL

Eclass

Learning outcomes

This course aims to introduce students to the concept and content of innovation management, emphasizing modern trends in innovation production, like in the digital and the urban ecosystems. It is an interdisciplinary field, where topics such as innovation management, radical and social innovation due to the digital technologies, urban innovation and smart cities, application of innovative production methods in the urban environment (e.g., living labs), design thinking etc.), but also the role of standardization in the innovation life cycle. Moreover, this course demonstrates useful innovation production and management exemplars.

In the end of this course students will be able to:

• Define the concepts of innovation, radical and social innovation, digital innovation, smart, sustainable city and sustainable city.
• Classify innovation with different criteria.
• Measure the ability of an organization to innovate.
• Compare traditional with digital and urban innovation.
• Describe a city system, with its infrastructure and productive components.
• Analyze the local ecosystem and define the strategic requirements for a smart, sustainable, and resilient city.
• Define the sources and value chains in a digital and urban environment for intelligence and resilience.
• Analyze business cases in digital and urban environments.
• Prioritize intelligent and resilience solutions for an organization, a city or a region.

General Skills

1. Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies

2. Adaptation to new situations

3. Decision making

4. Autonomous work

5. Work in an interdisciplinary environment

6. Generation of new research ideas

7. Exercise criticism and self-criticism

8. Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking

• Concepts and theoretical background
• Innovation, types of innovation and metrics
• The life cycle of innovation
• Structured innovation management systems
• Digital radical innovation
• Emerging social digital innovation
• Value sources, value chain and business models in an urban environment
• Smart cities: concepts, architectures, and approaches
• Technologies of smart and sustainable cities
• Innovation production and management technologies in the urban environment (living labs, design thinking, co-creation, etc.)
• The role of standardization in the innovation life cycle

TEACHING METHOD

face-to-face

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Use of Presentation Software [Power Point] with multimedia integration to make learning more engaging – Support the learning process through a dedicated learning platform [e-class] where supporting material is posted, on a weekly basis, and used. Through this interactive platform the teacher shares files, posts assignments, provides feedback. Use of T.P.E. in Communication with students – Communication with students via e-mail, the course's electronic platform

TEACHING ORGANIZATION

STUDENT EVALUATION

The evaluation language is Greek.

This course description text, with the evaluation criteria, is accessible in the Department's Study Guide that is posted before the start of each academic year on the Department's website and on the course's online platform.

Also, students are informed from the first lesson about their course requirements and their own obligations, the evaluation criteria and the requirements regarding the semester's assignments.

he possibilities of the e-class platform are also exploited to the maximum. Evaluation and grading at the end of the semester is based on the final exam [100%].

The rating scale is 0-10.

Greek

• Βασιλειάδης, Λ. (2021). Επιχειρηματικότητα και Καινοτομία. Σύγχρονες προσεγγίσεις και πρακτικές διαχείρισης. ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΤΣΟΤΡΑΣ ΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΟΣ Ε.Ε.
• Joe, T. and Besant, J. (2017). Στρατηγική Διοίκηση Καινοτομίας. BROKEN HILL PUBLISHERS LTD.
• Λαμπανάρης, Γ. (2020). Ψηφιακός Μετασχηματισμός των Επιχειρήσεων. Εκδόσεις ΔΙΣΙΓΜΑ ΙΚΕ.
• Δουκίδης, Γ. (2019). Το ψηφιακό μέλλον. ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ ΣΙΔΕΡΗΣ-ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΣΙΔΕΡΗΣ & ΣΙΑ Ο.Ε.

International

• Anthopoulos, L. (2017). Understanding Smart Cities – A tool for Smart Government or an Industrial Trick? Public Administration and Information Technology, Vol. 22, Springer Science+Business: New York.
• Bibri, S. E. (2018). Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future: The Untapped Potential of Amalgamating Big Data Analytics and Context–Aware Computing for Advancing Sustainability. The Urban Book Series, Springer Science+Business: New York.
• From Intelligent to Smart Cities by Mark Deakin (Editor), Husam Al Waer (Editor), Routledge London and New York, 2012.

Journals :

• Cities
• City
• Technological Forecasting and Social Change
• Journal of Urban Technology