Social Factors of Innovation A
Objectives
Notions of solidarity and sustainable economies. Development of information on science and technology policies at regional and national levels in Europe, the USA and Japan
Analysis of indicators of scientific and technological innovation and its policies
General characterization
Code
9791
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
António Paulo Brandão Moniz de Jesus
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 82
Teaching language
Inglês
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Burns, Tom; Stalker, G.M., The management of innovation, Oxford. 1995. 3rd ed.. 269 p.
CALLON, M.; LARÉDO, P.; MUSTAR, P.: The Strategic Management of Research and Technology, Paris, Economica Int., 1997.
Habermas, J. (2015), The Lure of Technocracy, Polity Press
LAY, Gunter; SHAPIRA, Philip; WENGEL, Jürgen Eds. (1999): Innovation in Production – The Adoption and Impacts of New Manufacturing Concepts in German Industry, Heidelberg, Physica-Verlag.
Machado, C.; Davim, J.P. (2014) Human Resource Management and Technological Challenges, Springer
Reich, R. (2000), The future of success. Work and life in the New Economy, Vintage, London.
von Hippel, E. (2005), Democratizing Innovation, MIT Press
Teaching method
In the continuous evaluation process at this course, the main objective is to develop group projects related to the thesis or practical activities.
Each group must take a topic related to their engineering project theme, and analyse it through the collected information on innovation processes, their industrial application(s), research developed on that topic in Portugal, at the European level, and eventually on a specific national case.
There must have place to collect information from Japanese and North American institution sources on innovation policies.
Evaluation method
Continuous evaluation process with a final report that will be evaluated and discussed
Subject matter
1. Introduction to the social dimension of innovation: agents, institutions, policies
2. Technological innovation with sustainable features: responsible innovation
3. Solidary economy as a social factor of innovation
4. Indicators of sustainable innovation: application to case studies
5. Responsible policies of Science and Technology in Europe, USA and Japan
6. The strategical plans of technological investment decision: examples and simulations