Lecture 1: (Thu 29.10. 10:15-12 Zoom)


Course Opening and Practicalities (Olli-Pekka Mutanen & Mikko Heiskala)

An overview of course motivation, contents and the practical arrangements

Slides:  (under For Aalto users)

  • Mutanen slides: Mutanen-29-10-slides-1 & Mutanen-29-10-slides-2
  • Heiskala slides: Heiskala-29-10-slides


- Olli Pekka Mutanen


- Mikko Heiskala


Technological Innovation (Olli Martikainen)

First part of the lecture covering technological life-cycles, phases of innovation, dominant designs, technological system view to innovation, and competence blocks, standards and essential patents and their role in technological innovation.

Slides: Martikainen-29-10-slides


- Olli-Martikainen, Senior Fellow, ETLA


Lecture recording:


Online modules

See separate section.


Group Assignment

On this first week, the assignment instructions will be published and you will form teams. Your immediate first action for the Group Assignment is to exchange contact information and form communication channels and meeting times with your team.

You will submit the final report only at the end of the course but will have mandatory preliminary phases with submissions during the course to divide the workload. Staff will also give some general level feedback about the phases as well. 

You can begin working on the assignment immediately.

For more details, read the Group Assignment section.


Individual Assignment

We will publish assignment instructions on the first week. There is a possibility the instructions are updated during the course but those will only apply to course content that will become available later on the course.

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