Universität Wien
Course Exam

230153 VO Politics of Innovation and its Institutional Dimensions: Central Issues, Questions and Concepts (2015W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Examiners

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Examination topics

Methods: The lecture is organised around a presentation (PPP) by the lecturer but will include methods of competence-oriented teaching in order to improve the teaching success (such as feedback loops or discussions of politics of the day along video-inputs).

Assessment and permitted materials

The exam for this lecture is written. Learning materials for the exam are the oral lectures given and the pdfs of the slides available on the e-learning platform. The exam will consist of answering four questions, three to be answered in a longer paragraph (300 words) and one in form of a short essay (1000 words). The questions for the written exam will be based on what we discussed in class.
No list of potential questions will be available.

Grading Scheme
The examination for the lecture will be graded on a basis of 100 points in total.
100-87 points: Excellent (1)
86-75 points: Good (2)
74-63 points: Satisfactory (3)
62-50 points: Sufficient (4)
49-0 points: Unsatisfactory (5) (fail)
Tools and resources permitted in the lecture exam: printouts of pdfs of the lecture slides and a paper English language dictionary.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Aim: The aim of the lecture is to provide key contents on different concepts of innovation and related questions. It will allow students to gain a differentiated perspective on different meanings of innovation and the social, political and institutional contexts that make them possible.

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