ENT 607 Managing technological innovation: Jan-Feb 2026

This is the class schedule and reading material for the Managing Technological Innovation course I teach at IIT Bombay from Jan to Feb 2026. 

email: i16236@iitb.ac.in

	Date	Focus / concepts	Resource/Reading
1	7-Jan-26     Wed slides	Introduction, Terminology: innovation, invention, creativity, entrepreneurship	4 types of innovation
2	9-Jan-26    Friday slides	Four workouts for building innovation stamina	Four components of innovation stamina Four basic workouts for building innovation stamina (10 min video) class reading: Dharaksha solutions
3	14-Jan-26   Wed slides	Biases: Metabolic stressors of innovation stamina 6Es of technology tracking,	4 biases that puncture innovation stamina: confirmation bias, overconfidence bias, curse of knowledge, attribution bias Atomberg technologies case
4	16-Jan-26   Friday slides	4 types of assumptions and 2 loops of innovation	4 types of risks/assumptions every innovator should be aware of 2 loops of innovation Ather Energy case
5	21-Jan-26   Wed slides	Technology lifecycle, S-curve	Technology/product adoption lifecycle Technology adoption curve (4 min video)
6	23-Jan-26        Friday	From curiosity to challenge framing,  Pain-wave-waste, metaphoric thinking	Innovation: where to begin? (3 min video) - Pain-wave-waste How to PIC a challenge area? A simple framework 3 ways a metaphor helps in challenge framing
7	28-Jan-26   Wed	Problem-solving approaches	4 approaches to problem-solving Systematic inventive thinking 4 modes of problem-solving applied to reducing student anxiety Husk Power Systems case
8	30-Jan-26 Friday	Guest lecture
9	4-Feb-26   Wed	Rapid prototyping-1 Storyboarding (slides)	Before-and-after storyboard a simple template
10	6-Feb-26   Friday	Rapid prototyping-2 Looks-like & Works-like prototypes
11	11-Feb-26   Wed	Rapid prototyping-3 Works-like prototypes & presentation templates (slides)	An idea presentation template based on 2-minute pitch by The Wand Company An idea presentation template based on Steve Jobs' iPod launch speech in 2001 Flatheads Shark tank pitch by Ganesh Balakrishnan 3C of idea communication illustrated through Andrej Karpathy's LLM talk
12	13-Feb-26 Friday	Team presentations
13	18-Feb-26	Guest lecture by Manoj Bhataria on "Entrepreneurial journey of industrial automation"
14	20-Feb-26	Business model exploration, who-what-how model, Doing the last experiment first (slides)