Society, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Teaching methodologies include teacher lectures and debate around the themes of the syllabus backed by the bibliography. Outside the classes students enrol in group work with teacher support aiming at the preparation of: a)  a group research report of a theoretical/analytical nature about a case of social entrepreneurship/innovation selected by students from the Master’s blog database  or the EQUAL fund, or proposed by the students and approved by the lecturer (50%) to be presented in a final joint session (10%).

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit aims at familiarizing students with the theories and practices of individual and collective social entrepreneurship and of social innovation.

Students should know and understand current transformations in the field of social interventions and the current meaning and relevance of social innovation and social entrepreneurship. They should be able to identify and apply the rationalities, discourses and practices of innovation and social entrepreneurship to: 1) the theoretical contextualization and critical reflection; b) the identification, contextualization and critical analysis of initiatives.

Generically, this curricular unit aims the acquisition of analytical and communicational competencies relative to the theoretical field, awareness of the opportunity and diversity of the social solution, self-reflection and the capacity of individual initiative and of cooperation that are present in the discourses and practices of this field.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Theories and practices of individual and collective social entrepreneurship are studied bearing in mind the potentials of innovation and social change in the initiatives of social entrepreneurship that take place or are promoted both in policies and in the organisational fields of the third sector and social and solidarity economy and in its intersections with the state, the market and the community.

The syllabus addresses the theoretical and empirical fields of: 1) the relevance, concept and meanings of social innovation in social intervention; 2) the models and processes of social innovation; 3) the historical contexts and conceptual debates about the third sector and social and solidarity economy; 4) the emergence of social entrepreneurship and its enterprises and entrepreneurs; 5) the processes of innovation and social transformation; 6) the governance of social innovation and entrepreneurship framed by the changes in welfare governance.

Head Lecturer(s)

Sílvia Maria Dias Ferreira

Assessment Methods

Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous Assessment
Exam: 40.0%
Research work: 60.0%

Bibliography

Arocena, R., e Sutz J. Subdesarrollo e innovación. Madrid: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Azevedo, C., Franco, R.C., Meneses, J.W. (org) Gestão das Organizações Sem Fins Lucrativos, Lisboa. Vida Económica, 2010.

Cattani, A.C. et al. (org), Dicionário Internacional da Outra Economia. Coimbra: Almedina/CES, 2009.

Costa, J. (org), Inovação social, Lisboa: MSST/GEP, 2009.

Evers, A. & Laville, J.L. (org), The Third Sector In Europe.Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2005.

Fayolle, A. & Matlay, H. (org), Handbook of Research on Social Entrepreneurship,Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2010.

Moulaert, F., MacCallum, D., Mehmood, A. e Hamdouch, A., The International Handbook On Social Innovation,Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013.

Nyssens, M. (org), Social enterprise: at the crossroads of market, public policies and civil society.London: Routledge, 2006.

Steyaert, C. & Hjorth D. (org) Entrepreneurship As Social Change. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006.