Aims:

The unit is mapped against the Chartered Institute of Building’s Project Evaluation and Development (PED) module within the Institute’s...

Project Evaluation and Development (BCPM0076)

Innovation ecosystems|Technological platforms|Platform strategies|Business model innovation

The module aims to introduce students to key theories and concepts in the strategic management of technology and innovation, and help them understand:


	The...

Managing Innovation and Technology (BCPM0032)

The module aims to introduce students to key theories and concepts in the strategic management of technology and innovation, and help them understand:

The strategic implications of technological change
	The features and enabling power of technological platforms
	The transformative impact of technology on a firm’s business model

This module covers the problems faced by developing countries and the role the construction industry can potentially play engendering economic development. The...

Infrastructure and Economic Growth (BCPM0008)

This module covers the problems faced by developing countries and the role the construction industry can potentially play engendering economic development. The module aims to introduce students to the basic concepts, methods and tools used in development economics to both appreciate the constraints that stop economies from realising their full potential and the role construction industry can play in loosening those constraints.

The students will learn the basic neoclassical growth model and dualism model of economic development and will be introduced to theories that contest these mainstream economic approaches to development. Students will learn the role railways, roads and other large infrastructure projects can play in engendering the process of economic development.

The course will expose the students to both the academic literature and real-world examples of transformative infrastructure projects that have changed the course of history in developing countries. We will have two guest lecturers who are experts in shipping and sustainable development.

Addressing the climate emergency, we also look at pathways for repair and transformation and work together to imagine creative alternatives that can help build ecologically sustainable and just futures.

At the end of the course the students will have a greater appreciation of the problems in economic development and the role construction can play in solving those problems.