Web Syllabus(講義概要)

　Course Description
　Remarks:
　# The students who took the course, InnovationⅢof Year 2016 later half, can take this course to fit extension of their study of Year 2016.
　# welcoming Japanese students who challenge to learn and work together for Innovation Study in English.
　This course focuses an introductory study of Innovation, which is the key driver of success for social and economic growth and evolution, as well as today’s leading companies. All lectures and workshops are given in English .
　It is open to foreign students as a part of Teikyo Asian Exchange Program (TAEP). And also it is welcoming Japanese students who challenge an essential style of studying in global society to learn and work together in English. Possible kind navigations would be provided for students who face some difficulties to fit to unfamiliar style of learning in English.
　In this course, first, we study on what is innovation through various cases of innovation in Japan and more those of United States as the center of innovation. Especially those dynamics (history) of how innovations were produced and expanded, we prepare a series of video articles on Innovation made in Japan and United States for easy and practical understandings.
　Second, we stretch those understandings through workshops using a textbook telling a long history of Innovation.
　Third, we prepare our basic knowledges for the following precise study of innovation expected in the next semester’s Innovation Course.

　Course Objectives
　① to understand what is Innovation, especially its nature and mechanism to occur , diffuse and grow in complex social and economic system.
　② to be able to explain dynamic feature of innovation taking a practical case such as Information Technology, Energy, Medical, Money, Biology and Infrastructure field, through learning various cases of Innovation in this course.
　③ to be able to explain how you are thanking fruit of innovation in daily life and what is required for future innovation

　Grading Policy
　Your course grade is based on the following components:
　Mid-term reports and the final report (exam): 40%
　Workshops and Discussion/ Participation and Contribution:30%
　Class Participation / Your Discipline:30%

　Textbooks
　Suggested reading for workshop is as follows:
　『guns, germs and steel/ a short history of everybody for the last 13,000years』
　（Jared Diamond, Vintage Books, London）
　Reference Books are as follows:
　『The Fourth Industrial Revolution』（Dr. Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum）
　『How Google Works』（Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, Grand Central Publishing）
　『A Short History of Chemistry』（Isaac Asimov、Doubleday and Co. Inc. New York）

　Assignments
　to read 『guns, germs and steel』 and prepare for workshops

　Class Requirements
　to be explained in the lecture of introduction