T-109.501 Research Seminar on Telecommunications Business I (2 cr), Autumn 2004
Seminar sessions will be held in the Computer Science building, lecture hall T3 on Tuesday at 13.15, starting 28.9.2004.
Slides of the Intro Session (28.9.2004)
Goal of the seminar
The course is especially designed for students taking Telecommunications Management for their major or minor (or postgraduate students), but is as well suitable for students that will like to develop their techno-economic analyzing skills in the telecommunications area. The goal of the course is also to learn scientific writing and how to make a research study. The participants will review a given published research paper related to telecommunications business trends and present it during the seminar. The preferred but not compulsory prerequisite for this course are TU-91.123 Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation and T-109.410 Technology Management in the Telecommunications Industry (these courses can be graduated e.g. parallel during this course).
Graduating the course
The enrollment to the course will be done by e-mail to the seminar chairman (sakari.luukkainen@hut.fi) at latest 24.9.2004.
The requirements of the course are:
- active participation in the seminar sessions, (introduction and 4/5 presentation sessions that will be hold November tuesdays at 13-16 in weeks 45-49)
- giving a verbal presentation (about 20 min) on a research paper (list of research papers below)
- active participation to the discussion after each presentation
- making a min. two-page content summary and review from min. 10 presented research papers and a min. four page summary of the following research methodology paper: The process of theory building that will be discussed in the introduction session
All summaries should be e-mailed to eino.kivisaari@hut.fi (tel. 050 3363 603) in PDF/Word format before 30.11. All verbal and written work should be in English. The research papers to be presented, and detailed timetable will be informed to each student in the introduction session on 28.9.
When enrolling to the course by e-mail the student should send his/her name, student number and the five most favorable research papers (see list and numbers below). It is also possible to propose other published papers that concentrate the seminar`s research phenomena i.e. telecommunications business. All above mentioned achievements will be evaluated together with grade scale accepted/not accepted.
Research papers to be presented:
- Palmberg, Martikainen. 2003. Overcoming a technological discontinuity – The case of the Finnish telecom industry and the GSM
- Spedale, 2002. Interfirm co-operative strategies in the context of discontinuous technological change. The case of the UK optical communications industry.
- Funk, Methe. 2000. Market and committee based mechanisms in the creation and diffusion of global industry standards: the case of mobile communication
- Ali-Yrkkö, Hermans. 2002. Nokia in the Finnish innovation system.
- Mayer, Kenney, 2002. Understanding Cisco´s acquisition and development strategy.
- Lindmark S. & Bohlin E. 2003, The i-mode Success Story Towards a Systems Explanation
- Porter, E. 2001. Strategy and the Internet
- Brynjolfsson, E., Smith, M., D. 2000. Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers.
- Hess, Ricart. 2002. Managing customer switching costs. A framework for competing in the networked environment.
- Mark Gaynor et al: The Real Options Approach to Standards for Building Network-based Services
- Hal R. Varian and Carl Shapiro: Linux Adoption in the Public Sector: An Economic Analysis
- Toivo Äijö, Kirsi Saarinen: Business Models - Conceptual Analysis
- Mark Gaynor, Scott Bradner: The Real Options Approach to Standardization
- Mark Gaynor: A Real Options Approach to Value Voice-Over-IP Services
- Mark Gaynor, Scott Bradner: A Real Options Metric to Evaluate Network, Protocol and Service Architecture
- Jeffrey Macher, Barak Richman: Organisational Responses to Discontinuous Innovation: A Case Study Approach
- Nicholas Economides: Telecommunications Regulation: An Introduction
- Bohlin E. & Lindmark S. 2002, Incentives to Innovate with Next Generation Networks
- Björkdahl J, Bohlin E, Lindmark S, 2004, Financial Assessment of Fourth Generation Mobile Technologies
- Sabat: The Evolving Mobile Wireless Value Chain and Market Structure
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Last updated 28.9.2004
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