Module overview
This module explores the opportunities and challenges presented by the growing importance of the environmental agenda in the political, social economic and technological context. With increasing environmental awareness comes a need for commercially sustainable solutions to energy and resource conservation. The challenge lies in translating environmentally sound technologies into viable market solutions and business ventures - just because it is the right thing to do does not mean that customers will buy! Emergent new sectors present exciting opportunities, yet the very dynamism of such sectors, a nexus of new technologies, new markets, new networks, new regulatory practices presents risk too.
Linked modules
Pre-Requisites: MANG1003 or MANG1050
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- carry out team-work effectively.
- plan and control effectively for successful completion of a personal and group workload;
- use a wide range of information sources requiring the development of bibliographic skills including the use the Internet;
- communicate effectively, in both oral and written form, using and justifying argument within reports, presentations and debates;
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the challenges and opportunities presented to entrepreneurs by the green agenda;
- the process of developing viable market opportunities based on energy and resource conservation issues.
- the nature of the entrepreneurial environment: as a complex, dynamic set of inter-relations between new markets, new technologies and new regulatory practices;
- the contextual factors (global and national) influencing innovation in an environmental context;
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- analyse the feasibility of implementing new technology opportunities in a sustainable context.
- recognise trends in the environmental context (policy, technology, economic/social) that present entrepreneurial opportunities;
- analyse how new industry sectors have arisen in response to new trends;
- appraise the innovation challenges facing green entrepreneurs in a given industry setting;
Syllabus
Introduction: why innovation and the environment; Key concepts of innovation; Key actors driving the environmental agenda; Challenges of sustainability transitions; Opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovators; Dimensions of eco-innovation; Building the innovative organization and developing an innovation strategy; Decision making under uncertainty and building the innovation case; Innovation networks and open innovation; Capturing the benefits of innovation and capturing learning from innovation.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Learning activities include lectures; activity-based seminars; case studies; private study; online-quizzes, group presentations.
Type | Hours |
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Lecture | 24 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 30 |
Wider reading or practice | 30 |
Completion of assessment task | 30 |
Seminar | 11 |
Revision | 25 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Esty, D. and Winston, A (2009). Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. Wiley.
Carillo-Hermosilla, J. and del Rio Gonzalez. P. and T. Konnola, T. (2009). Eco-Innovation: When Sustainability and Competitiveness Shake Hands. Palgrave.
Koester, E. (2017). Green entrepreneur handbook: the guide to building and growing a green and clean business.. Taylor & Francis.
Bansal, P. and Hoffman, A. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment. Oxford University Press.
Chesbrough, H., Vanhaverbeke, W. and West, J. (2006). Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm. Oxford University Press.
Geels, F., Kemp, R., Dudley, G. and Lyons, G (2012). Automobility in Transition? A Socio-Technical Analysis of Sustainable Transport. Routledge.
Jones, G. (2017). Profits and Sustainability: A history of Green Entrepreneurship. Oxford University Press.
Bessant,J. and Tidd, J. (2015). Innovation and Entrepreneurship. John Wiley & Sons.
Jolly, A. (2010). Clean Tech Clean Profits: Using Effective Innovation and Sustainable Business Practices to Win in the New Low-Carbon Economy. Kogan Page.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Coursework | 70% |
Group presentation | 30% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Coursework | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Coursework | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External