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Organizing for Innovative Product Development
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- Instructors
- Heng Xu, Prof. Tom Allen
- Term
- Spring 2007
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 19 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 15.980J Organizing for Innovative Product Development, Spring 2007, Heng Xu, Prof. Tom Allen — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
11 files
- Introduction Download
- Technology transfer: Where and how do new product ideas originate? Download
- Relations between science and technology Download
- Reward systems for engineers and scientists Download
- The innovation process: How should we organize? Download
- Examples of the use of physical space to accomplish organizational goals (Courtesy of Gunter Henn. Used with permission.) Download
- The downside of project organization: Conformity and the aging of project teams (PDF 1) Download
- The downside of project organization: Conformity and the aging of project teams (PDF 2) Download
- Physical space and its interaction with organizational space (PDF 1) Download
- Physical space and its interaction with organizational space (PDF 2) Download
- Effects of geographic location on communication patterns Download
Assignments
8 files
- This resource contains information on topics gatekeeper as a link to outside technology, gatekeeper… (lec4.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information on topics netgraph of communication among software developers… (lec8.pdf) Download
- Anand Bhadouria, Aparna Chennapragada and Rajiv Ramaratnam - Organizing for Innovation in Internet Firms Download
- Cheolmin Park and Dhiman Bhattacharjee - The Dual Ladder: Review and Personal Perspective Download
- Chris Aden - On the Organizational Challenges Impacting High Tech Companies Post Merger and Acquisition Download
- Paul Wheeler - Intellution: A Study In Innovation Download
- Final Paper Download
- This resource contains guidelines for final paper (assignment.pdf) Download
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