| Description
| The course tackles various issues, including the evolution and paradigm shift of science, technology, and innovation to build a view of how economies are transformed through successive impacts of creative destruction. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to a range of foundational concepts in understanding relationships between innovation and society. It will explore the characteristics of knowledge, the processes and institutions that generate progress in knowledge and the development of innovations, and the spread of innovations throughout society.
The lectures introduce the different forms of entrepreneurship from history to today; how society shapes technology and technology shapes society; new approaches to responsible innovation; the (networked) organization of innovation in modern societies and the idea of sociotechnical systems; how innovations spread through society and how they become embedded in everyday life; who owns knowledge? public and private domains of
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