1st EuroTech Alliance course offered by the EDMT doctoral school
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In the framework of the Euro Tech Alliance, the doctoral school in Management of Technology (EDMT) will offer its first course on May 18. The registrations to the course have met with success among the PhD students from all four institutions. The course will take place at EPFL and is coordinated by Prof. Dominique Foray.
About the Euro Tech Alliance
EPFL, the University of Technology Eindhoven (TU/e), the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the Technische Universität München (TUM) - four leading centers of technicals education - have formed together the EuroTech Universities Alliance, whose shared mission is to develop technically sound solutions to the major challenges of our society: energy, food, health, communication and mobility.
The purpose of the alliance is to collaborate on developing technological solutions for grand societal challenges.
A number of joint projects have been launched to strengthen and expose the EuroTech Alliance. One of them is this joint PhD course database. The aim of this initiative is to increase mobility for the PhD students within the four universities and to encourage more research cooperation. Prof. Dominique Foray will be coordinating the upcoming PhD course that will take place at EPFL mid-May entitled "Economics of Innovation and Technological Change".
Course description
DTU, EPFL, TU/e and TUM have recently joined forces in a new strategic alliance, named Euro Tech, with the goal to further collaboration in leading research and educational programs. Considering that this institutional framework explicitly encourages the development of Euro Tech communities in several academic disciplines, Professors in innovation and entrepreneurship from the four schools have decided to partake in a comprehensive collaboration. This alliance will serve as the basis for further growth and encourage entrepreneurship & innovation research as a core scholarly discipline in European (technical) universities.
In the spirit of this initiative, a doctoral course on “Economics of Innovation and Technological Change” has been designed by Professors of the four universities under the coordination of Pr. Dominique Foray (EPFL) and will be offered to the students of Copenhagen, Eindhoven, Lausanne and Münich during the 2015 Spring Semester.
This one week block course will alternate formal lectures on various topics in the economics of innovation, interactive sessions, students’presentation as well as individual coaching.
Students after following this program will be able to :
- Understand better what makes for a good research question anddevelop the ability to identify promising research questions for own thesis and further projects in the field of economics and management of innovation;
- Elaborate a solid research design as relating in a consistent way research question, methods and data production and use
- Master the state of the art both in the general field of the economics and management of innovation and in the more specialized sub-field corresponding to own research interest (economics of science, industry dynamics, geography and space, appropriability issue and open innovation, effects of innovation on skills/employment/productivity/firm’s growth, innovation policy, specific technology analysis, and so on)
Lecturers: D. Foray (coordinator, EPFL), P. Gaulé (EPFL), F. Visentin (EPFL), J. Henkel (TUM), R. Bekkers (TUE), J. Li-Ying (DTU)