EC.421
X PRIZE Workshop: Grand Challenges in Energy
Fall 2009
Topics
- Prize history
- Prize literature review
- X PRIZE introduction
- Energy storage overview
- Energy technology I
- Economics of storage innovation
- Energy technology II
- Incentives and innovation
- Introduction to prize design
- Prize space analysis
- US Department of Energy
- Creativity and improvisation
- Sizing markets and prizes
- Mid-term team presentations
- Engagement strategies
- IDEO brainstorm
- The competitor’s perspective
- X PRIZE critique
- Matrix peer review “gaming session”
- Team time
- Team time (cont.)
- Presentation dry runs
- Final presentations
Readings
- Boudreau, K. J., and K. R. Lakhani. “How to Manage Outside Innovation.” MIT Sloan Management Review 50, no. 4 (2009): 68-76.
- Christensen, Clayton. “Disruptive Technological Change in the Mechanical Excavator Industry.” In The Innovator’s Dilemma . New York, NY: Harper Business, 2003. ISBN: 9780060521998.
- Foster, R. “The S-Curve: A New Forecasting Tool.” In Innovation, The Attackers Advantage . New York, NY: Summit Books, Simon and Schuster, 1988. ISBN: 9780671642242.
- Moore, Geoffrey A. “High-Tech Marketing Illusion.” Chapter 1 in Crossing the Chasm . New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2002. ISBN: 9780060517120.
- Semadeni, M. “Energy Storage as an Essential Part of Sustainable Energy Systems.” Center for Energy Policy and Economics Working Paper No. 24. Zurich, Switzerland: Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, 2003.
- Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time . New York, NY: Walker Publishing Company, 2007. ISBN: 9780802715296.
- Boudreau, Kevin, and Karim Lakhani. “How to Manage Outside Innovation.” MIT Sloan Management Review 50, no. 4 (2009): 69-76.
- Christensen, Clayton, Scott Anthony, and Erik Roth. Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change . Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781591391852.
- Horrobin, D. “Glittering Prizes for Research Support.” Nature 324 (1986): 221.
- Morgan, J. “Inducing Innovation Through Prizes.” Innovations 3, no. 4 (2009): 105-117.
- Utterback, James. Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation . 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780875847405.
- Utterback, James, and William Abernathy. “A Dynamic Model of Process and Product Innovation.” OMEGA 3, no. 6 (1975): 639-656.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- 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.