MN30222: Innovation, industrialisation & international competitiveness
[Page last updated: 23 August 2022]
| Academic Year: | 2022/23 |
| Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Coursework (CW 100% - Qualifying Mark: 35)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before or while taking this module you must take MN10569 OR take MN20208 OR take MN30085 OR take MN50450 OR ( take MN10545 AND take CH10009 )
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| Learning Outcomes:
| By the end of this unit, the student should be able to:
* Appreciate technology as a global driver and facilitator.
* Have an understanding of the crucial interplay between firms, governments and global environment in encouraging technology innovation for industrial growth.
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| Aims: | To examine the role of technology and innovation in the internationalisation of businesses and the industrialisation of nations.
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| Skills: |
* Intellectual skills: ability to select a focus for a project, analysis and synthesis of information.
* Transferable/ Key skills: research, ability to select a focus for a project, analysis and synthesis of information, structuring and writing a long essay.
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| Content: | The unit will include: the definition of technology and innovation; how it is relevant to international business activity/production. The role of the MNE in the internationalisation of technology; the organisation of innovation for international competitiveness; technology trajectories and diversification; technology based alliances and international technology transfer; National Systems of Innovation and technology policy.
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| Programme availability: |
MN30222 is Optional on the following programmes:
Department of Chemistry
- USCH-AFB03 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry with Management (Year 3)
- USCH-AAB04 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry with Management with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- USCH-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry with Management with Industrial Placement (Year 4)
- USCH-AFM07 : MSci(Hons) Chemistry with Management (Year 3)
- USCH-AKM07 : MSci(Hons) Chemistry with Management with Industrial Placement (Year 4)
School of Management
- UMMN-AFB02 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Finance (Year 3)
- UMMN-AKB02 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Finance with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UMMN-ANB01 : BSc(Hons) Business Administration with Thin sandwich placement(s) (Year 4)
- UMMN-AYB06 : BSc(Hons) International Management with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UMMN-AFB04 : BSc(Hons) Management (Year 3)
- UMMN-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Management with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UMMN-AKB05 : BSc(Hons) Management with Marketing with Year long work placement (Year 4)
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UXXX-AYB05 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (French) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UXXX-AYB04 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (German) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UXXX-AYB06 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2022/23 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2023/24 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2022/23.
- Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
- Find out more about these and other important University terms and conditions here.
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