| Code |
9830
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| Year |
1
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| Semester |
S2
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
TP(24H)
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| Scientific area |
Marketing e Estratégia
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Entry requirements |
NA
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Learning outcomes |
- Understand the main concepts associated with innovation and explore the main types of innovation;
- Identify the main key success factors and the main barriers to innovation;
- Approach innovation from a systemic perspective, whether sectoral, regional or national;
- Address the European Innovation Scorecard;
- Understand the concepts of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in their various approaches and meanings;
- Understand the various factors affecting business processes, including the entrepreneur, the institution and the context;
- Understand the various stages of the business process: from the recognition of the opportunity and the creation of the company, through growth, until the eventual withdrawal from the business;
- Understand the specificities of particular forms of entrepreneurship, namely female, ethnic, social, entrepreneurial and informal entrepreneurship.
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Syllabus |
1. innovation: concepts, types, classes and models
2. Innovation: Key success factors and factors that hinder innovation
3. Innovation Systems
4. Innovation Metrics
5. Entrepreneurship: Concepts, theories and models
6. The entrepreneur: main theories
7. Environment and entrepreneurship
8. Particular forms of entrepreneurship
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Main Bibliography |
Dahlander, L. and Gann, D. (2010) “How Open is Innovation?”, Research Policy, 39, 699-709.
Scott L. Newbert, S., Gopalakrishnan, S. and Kirchhoff, B. (2008) “Looking beyond resources: Exploring the importance of entrepreneurship to firm-level competitive advantage in technologically intensive industries”, Technovation, 28, 6-19.
Van de Vrande, V., de Jong J. P., Vanhaverbeke, W., Rochemont, M. (2009) “Open Innovation in SMEs: Trends, Motives and Management Challenges”, Technovation, 29, 423–437.
Damanpour, F. and Wischnevsky, D. (2006) “Research on innovation in organizations: Distinguishing innovation-generating from innovation-adopting organizations”, Journal of. Engineering and Technology. Management, 23, 269–291.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
The evaluation to this UC can integrate several evaluation tools according to the academic rules, such as: participation in classes, which includes not only class attendance but also intervention in class and the resolution of practical questions/cases (either in group or individually), individual works, group work, projects and tests. The instruments and weightings are specified each year in the curriculum unit dossier.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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