Imperial College London

The course explores management of innovation and the skills needed to manage innovation at both strategic and operational levels. It provides evidence of different approaches based on real-world examples and experiences of leading organizations from around the world. Innovation is a fundamental driver of competitiveness and it plays a large part in improving quality of life. Innovation, and particularly technological innovation, is inherently difficult, uncertain, and risky, and most new technologies fail to be translated into successful products and services. Given this, it is essential that students understand the strategies, tools, and techniques for managing innovation, which often requires a different set of management knowledge and skills from those employed in everyday business administration.

On this course, students will learn the fundamentals of geometric nonlinearity for discrete structural systems. We will examine principles of stability and buckling analysis for discrete structural systems.We wil explore nonlinear solution procedures for tracing equilibrium paths and geometrically nonlinear finite elements for one-dimensional structural systems.We will also examine materially nonlinear finite elements for one-dimensional structural systems.