On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Critically analyse innovation in different enterprise or social contexts.
2. Evaluate the practice and protocols of professional and social networks.
3. Identify opportunities and risks of innovation.
4. Evaluate innovation at a systems or macro level.
5. Analyse the public policy framework surrounding innovation.

1. Innovation at the business and social enterprise level.
2. Financing new and growing business and social enterprises.
3. The economic and social drivers and effects of innovation.
? Oligopoly power, cost competition, differences in productivity and interactions between corporations and small competitive firms.
? The economic and social and cultural effects of long term technical development and technical change.
4. Innovation, public policy and the institutions of science.
? Innovation clusters and networks.
? Strategy and communication for innovation.
? Linking innovation, public policy and science.
5. Financial innovations in context.
? The causes and effects of innovation in financial products.
? Innovation at the macro systems level: changing and creating societies to address or avert global social and environmental crises.