Spring 2027

Strategic Management of Innovation

Strategic Management of Innovation helps students gain tools and concepts to generate value from innovation and technology in existing organizations.

offering recorded2–3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Sik Chung

Summary

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Past student reviews · Martin Ganco

The workload involved weekly readings of 10-20 pages of case studies with brief analyses, online book quizzes, and a final group project.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Evaluate whether a technological solution is a business opportunity.

  • Explain the process of commercializing technology and the challenges associated with each phase of that process.

  • Articulate the skills and resources required for successfully managing technologies and innovative processes.

  • Produce an analysis of the commercial potential of a technological solution.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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Graduate/professional standing or declared in graduate Business Exchange program

    • Graduate/professional standing
    • declared in graduate Business Exchange program
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    • Graduate/professional standing
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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.80 GPA, 87.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

MARTIN GANCO is recorded teaching in Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

SIK CHUNG is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SEM 001Classroom Instruction0 / 430

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Martin Ganco

A past student described the historical instructor as enthusiastic and friendly, noting he provided extensive feedback on homework and was generally helpful throughout the course.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.52 GPA, 72.4% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.82 GPA, 97.0% A/AB (n=66 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.80 GPA, 87.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Martin Ganco

The workload involved weekly readings of 10-20 pages of case studies with brief analyses, online book quizzes, and a final group project.

Past student reviews · Martin Ganco

The reviewer found the online quizzes easy to skim but considered the consistent weekly reading requirement the main downside of the class.

Topics

  • Generating value from innovation and technology in existing organizations
  • Commercializing technology and challenges in each phase
  • Managing technologies and innovative processes

Skills

  • Evaluating technological solutions as business opportunities
  • Explaining the technology commercialization process and its challenges
  • Identifying skills and resources for managing technologies and innovative processes
  • Producing analyses of the commercial potential of technological solutions

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Grades over time

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Catalog & offerings

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MHR 715 · Spring 2027

Strategic Management of Innovation

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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