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Innovation Systems for Science, Technology, Energy, Manufacturing, and Health
See description under subject STS.081[J] . Limited to 25.
Spring 2017
Topics
- Economic Growth Theory and the Direct Elements in Innovation
- Innovation Systems and Direct/Indirect Elements in the Innovation Ecosystem
- The Competitive Challenge to U.S. Manufacturing
- The Challenge from Globalization for Advanced Manufacturing and New Services
- The Innovation System at the Institutional Level: The Organization of Federal Science Support
- Crossing “The Valley of Death” Between Research and Development: The Public-Private Partnership Approach
- The Organization of Innovation Systems at the Face-to-Face Level
- DARPA as the Connected Model in the Innovation System: Government-Private Sector Interaction and the Example of Computing
- The Life Science R&D Model: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- The Challenge of Energy Technology Transformation
- Improving the Talent Base: New Education and Training Models
- The Future of Work: The Employment-Productivity Debate
Readings
- [TILS] Bonvillian, William and Charles Weiss. Technological Innovation in Legacy Sectors . Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780199374519.
- Atkinson, Robert. The Past and Future of America’s Economy: Long Waves of Innovation That Power Cycles of Growth . Edward Elgar Pub, 2005, pp. 3–40. ISBN: 9781845425760.
- Gupta, Udayan, ed. Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories . Harvard Business Review Press, 2000, pp. 1–11. ISBN: 9780875849386.
- Hughes, Kent. Building the Next American Century: The Past and Future of American Economic Competitiveness . John Hopkins University Press, 2005. Chapters 3, 4, 6, and 7. ISBN: 9780801882036.
- Berger, Suzanne. How We Compete: What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make it in Today’s Global Economy . Crown Business, 2005, pp. 251–277. ISBN: 9780385513593.
- Kim, Linsu. Imitation to Innovation: The Dynamics of Korea’s Technological Learning . Harvard Business Review, 1997, pp. 192–213, 234–243. ISBN: 9780875845746.
- Moses, Joel. “Three Design Methodologies, Their Associated Organizational Structures, and Their Relationship to Various Fields.” Proceedings of Engineering Systems Symposium MIT, 2004.
- [TILS] Chapters 4 and 13 (pp. 37–54, 215–239). Manufacturing as an Innovation Policy Change.
- Conant, Jennet. Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II . Simon & Schuster, 2003, pp. 178–289. ISBN: 9780684872889.
- Yannuzzi, Rick. “In-Q-Tel: A New Partnership Between the CIA and the Private Sector.” Defense Intelligence Journal 9, no. 1 (2000).
- [TILS] Chapters 1–2, 11–12 (pp. 1–20, 181–213). Innovation Systems and the Challenge of Legacy Sectors.
- Rosen, William. The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention . University of Chicago Press, 2012, pp. 35–39, 115–134. ISBN: 9780226726347.
- Bennis, Warren and Patricia Ward Biederman. Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration . Basic Books, 1998, pp. 196–218. ISBN: 9780201339895.
- Evans, Harold, Gail Buckland, and David Lefer. They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators . Little, Brown and Company, 2004, pp. 152–171. ISBN: 9780316277662.
- Evans, Harold, Gail Buckland, and David Lefer. They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators . Little, Brown and Company, 2004, pp. 420–431. ISBN: 9780316277662.
- Daitch, Vicki and Lillian Hoddeson. True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen: The Only Winner of Two Nobel Prizes in Physics . Joseph Henry Press, 2002, pp. 115–154. ISBN: 9780309095112.
- Morrow, Daniel. “Oral History: Dr. J Craig Venter.” Computerworld Honors Foundation International Archives , 2003, pp. 3–53, 56–58.
- Bennis, Warren and Patricia Ward Biederman. Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration . Basic Books, 1998, pp. 63–86. ISBN: 9780201339895.
- Waldrop, Mitchell M. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal . Viking Adult, 2001, pp. 119–134. ISBN: 9780670899760.
- [TILS] Chapter 8 (pp. 119–134). DARPA’s role as a change agent within DOD.
- Fong, Glenn. “ARPA Does Windows: The Defense Underpinning of the PC Revolution.” Business and Politics 3, no. 3 (2001): 213–237.
- Cook-Deegan, Robert. “Does NIH Need a DARPA?” Issues in Science and Technology 13, no. 2 (1997).
- Infectious Diseases Society of America. “Bad Bugs, No Drugs: As Antibiotic Discovery Stagnates… A Public Health Crisis Brews.” IDSA, 2004, pp. 3–28.
- Food and Drug Administration. “Innovation or Stagnation: Challenge and Opportunity on the Critical Path to New Medical Technologies.” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2004.
- [TILS] Chapter 7, subchapter on Health Delivery (pp. 112–118).
- “Convergence: The Future of Health.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.
- Bonvillian, William. “Applying Innovation Policy to the U.S. Energy/Climate Challenge.” In Delivering Energy Law and Policy in the EU and U.S. Edited by Raphael Heffron and Gavin Little. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780748696789.
- Bonvillian, William. “Addressing the Scaleup Challenge for ‘Hard’ Technology Startups.” Annals of Science and Technology 1, no. 1 (2017).
- Recommended:
- Baumol, William. “Education for Innovation: Entrepreneurial Breakthroughs Vs. Corporate Incremental Improvements (PDF).” National Bureau of Economic Research, 2004.
- [TILS] Chapter 7, subchapter on Higher Education (pp. 96–112).
- Mindell, David. Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy . Viking, 2015, pp. 1–11, 191–218. ISBN: 9780525426974.
Prerequisites & course information
Same subject as STS.081[J] Prereq: None U (Fall) Not offered regularly; consult department 2-0-7 units. HASS-S
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2017
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.