Innovation & Intra-entrepreneurship
Objectives
This
course aims to address the different forms of innovation. Different types of
innovation, motivations to innovate, innovative approaches, and its
interpretation will be presented. It will also be launched the bases for the
methods that support the innovation projects. The goal is to increase students'
knowledge and critical capacity regarding innovation within different aspects
of our society that can be verified on a daily basis.
A practical and action-oriented approach will be developed for each student,
identifying opportunities to create new applications of distributed innovation.
This curricular unit aims to reinforce the taste for curiosity, study and
knowledge of innovation applied to the real world.
General characterization
Code
14232
Credits
3
Responsible teacher
Pedro Oliveira | Maria João Jacinto
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Portuguese | English
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
von Hippel, Eric (1988) The Sources of Innovation, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
von Hippel, Eric (2005). Democratizing Innovation, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Karim R. Lakhani and Jill A. Panetta (2007), The Principles of Distributed Innovation, Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, 2:3, 97-112, https://doi.org/10.1162/itgg.2007.2.3.97
CHESBROUGH, Henry. VANHAVERBEKE, Wim. WEST, Joel and eds. Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006
Teaching method
Expository
lectures, to present the bases of the syllabus. It is intended that students
develop a critical sense based on the themes promoted in class, so their
perception of the basic definitions taught can be evaluated, as well as the
application of those same definitions to real case-studies and development of new
examples of distributed innovation.
Evaluation method
The
assessment of this CU is done together with the block of CUs of the same area
of knowledge. This assessment has 3 moments, which together define the final
grade of the curricular unit:
• Individual exam with a weighting of 50% of the total mark
• Group work with a weighting of 35% of the total grade value
• Individual reflection-action exercise carried out at the end of the
curricular unit, with a weighting of 15% of the total grade value. The set of
individual action-reflection exercises is a journaling activity, which will
constitute a learning portfolio capable of synthesising the contributions of
the masters for that student.
Subject matter
Lectures
- What is innovation?
- The importance of innovation in corporate world and society in general
- Closed innovation vs open innovation
- Relationship between open innovation and distributed innovation
- Distributed innovation: motivation and interest; principles of process
organization; openness and intellectual property; limitations
- Distributed innovation models
- Business ecosystems: option for creative problem-solving; Organizational
design; Relationship with competition and technological evolution