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Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Code 14731
Year 1
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload PL(30H)/T(30H)
Scientific area Management and Economics
Entry requirements Not applicable
Mode of delivery Face-to-face instruction.
Work placements Not applicable.
Learning outcomes The main objective of this curricular unit is to transmit knowledge about entrepreneurship and business creation process, to develop in forming a series of skills and attitudes that foster entrepreneurship, targeting the creation of new businesses, as well as generating new business and projects in companies / institutions exist. Impart knowledge about the business plan, developed in forming a series of skills and attitudes that encourage critical reflection on the business model.

Skills that students must acquire with curricular unit:
- Understand the context for the entrepreneurship and the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises in economic and social development of countries;
- Acquire knowledge about the characteristics of entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial process;
- Understand the importance of the planning process;
- Learn to develop, write and present an effective business plan for a new company (start-up).
Syllabus I - From idea to business plan: entrepreneurial process
II - Strategy and competitiveness of the company
III - The marketing and market research
IV - Study of financial and economic viability
V - Innovation and business creation
VI- Protection of intellectual property
Main Bibliography Sarkar, S. (2014). Empreendedorismo e Inovação, 3ªEdição, Escolar Editora
Ferreira, M.; Reis, N.; Serra, F. (2009), Marketing para empreendedores e Pequenas empresas, 2ª Ed, Lidel
Ferreira, M.; Santos, J.; Serra, F. (2010), Ser Empreendedor, 2ª Ed., Edições Sílabo
Carvalho, L.; Costa, T. (2015). Empreendedorismo - uma visão global e integradora, Edições Sílabo
Duarte, C. e Esperança, J. (2014). Empreendedorismo e planea
Hisrich, R. Peters; M. Shepherd, D. (2005): Entrepreneurship. Empreendedores, 6ª Edição McGraw-Hill, Madrid.
Osterwalder, A., e Pigneur, Y. (2010). Business model generation: a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. Wiley.
Silva, M. J. (2007): “Inovação e Empreendedorismo” in Manual de Dinamização de Empresas de Base Tecnológica (Eds.) M. Raposo, M.J. Silva & R. Rodrigues, Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã pp. 23-41. ISBN: 978-972-8790-17-6.
Thompson, A.; Strickland, A. e Gamble, J. (2008) Administração estratégica, 15ª Ed, McGraw-Hill Portugal.
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria Frequency / Attendance:
- Theoretical-practical classes
- Attendance not mandatory

Periodic Evaluation:
- A written test, with 50% of the final grade;
- Written work (Business Plan), with 40% of the final grade;
- Presentation of the work, with 10% for the final grade.
Note: Minimum score of 6 values.

Final evaluation:
- Written exam (100%) or Written exam (80%) + Written work (20%)

Students who obtain a Teaching Learning Classification of at least 10 values will be exempt from examination. In order to be assigned frequency and therefore be able to access exams, students must obtain a Teaching Learning Classification of at least six values.

General assessment rules of the University of Beira Interior apply.

Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2023-03-17

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