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Individual Essay Assignment Remit (70%)

Assignment:

Using the national systems of innovation approach, select two institutions from your chosen country and analyse how each of those institutions shaped the development and diffusion of your two chosen disruptive technologies. Provide suggestions on how the institutions you have chosen could better support/constrain the development of the two disruptive technologies of your choice. Illustrate your answer with relevant and up-to-date examples.

In your essay, you can argue in favour of the development of one or both of your chosen technologies if you think that these technologies play a positive societal role, or you may argue that one or both of your chosen technologies should be constrained if you think that the disruptive technologies of your choice do not play a positive societal role.

Choosing the two technologies for the Assignment

· When choosing disruptive technologies, you must select two technologies from two different lectures ((1) biotechnology, (2) one of the three renewable energies – wind, solar, or e-vehicles, and (3) AI, or the sharing economy). You must not compare technologies that were discussed in the same lecture (e.g., wind vs. solar energy).

Using Theories in the Assignment

· For this assignment, you must refer to and apply the theories and academic literature discussed in the module (e.g. the national systems of innovation (NSI) literature). For a higher mark you can also use relevant academic articles not discussed in lectures or included in the Resource List.

· Make sure that you identify the specific NSI approach you want to use in your analysis, that you explain the theory and that you justify your choice of theory. You should also evaluate the theories you are using (e.g. what are the strengths and weaknesses of the NSI approach you have chosen to apply? Why is the NSI approach you have chosen to apply relevant to the country you have chosen to analyse? A specific NSI approach may be good at explaining the development of one of the technologies you are using but not another, etc).

Providing Recommendation in the Assignment

· When providing suggestion for change of the institutions you have chosen, you can discuss whether the country of your choice should support or constrain/limit (for example if you think there are more societal benefits to limiting the development of a technology) the development of the disruptive technologies you are discussing. Make sure you explain and justify your decisions.

Use up to date empirical evidence in the Assignment

· For any analysis included in the assignment, use up-to-date empirical evidence (e.g., statistics, company examples, country examples, newspaper articles, media reports, industry reports, etc.).

Marking Criteria

· Please have a look at the marking criteria below. As you can see marks are awarded according to a number of criteria including: The clarity and focus with which you address the assessment task (for a good mark you must answer the essay question and be as focused as possible); the logical structure of your argument; evidence of knowledge of course material including the clarity of the explanation of key theoretical ideas and key concepts; the relevance and quality of the examples you use to illustrate your arguments; your independent and critical thinking.

Module Learning Outcomes:

LO 2 Explain the disruptive impact of radical technological change on firms, global value chains, international business eco-systems and business networks.

LO 3 Appraise the impact of disruptive innovation and technological change on international, national and regional innovation and business systems.

LO 4 Apply a system’s approach to the analysis of the complex societal challenges associated with disruptive innovation at global level.

LO 5 Develop problem solving skills for dealing with real world complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty.

LO 6 Develop critical thinking and communication skills.

Grading Criteria:

See rubric at the end of this document

Feedback to Students:

Both Summative and Formative feedback is given to encourage students to reflect on their learning that feed forward into following assessment tasks. The preparation for all assessment tasks will be supported by formative feedback within the tutorials/seminars. Written feedback is provided as appropriate.  Please be aware to use the browser and not the Canvas App as you may not be able to view all comments.

Plagiarism:

It is your responsibility to ensure that you understand correct referencing practices. You are expected to use appropriate references and keep carefully detailed notes of all your information sources, including any material downloaded from the Internet. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are not vulnerable to any alleged breaches of the assessment regulations.

Within this module you are permitted to use generative AI to support your learning experience. You may use it for the following activities:

· Researching and refining your ideas.

· Information retrieval or background research.

· Drafting an outline to organise or summarise your thoughts.

· Refining research questions.

· Checking spelling and grammar.

You may not submit any work generated by an AI tool as your own.  Where you include any material generated by an AI program, it should be cited just like any other reference material. Alongside your assignment you should also upload a commentary detailing how generative AI has been used to develop your submission. If you have not used generative AI tools, you should clearly state so. Further guidance on how to do this can be found here [Student guidance on using Generative Artificial Intelligence tools ethically for study (birmingham.ac.uk)].

Plagiarism, including that which results from using generative AI, is a form of academic misconduct that will be dealt with under the University’s Code of Practice on Academic Integrity

Grading Criteria: