Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Recommended Prerequisites

Electronic of Signals and Systems, Interfaces and Data Acquisition Systems.

Teaching Methods

Search will implement a participative method of learning, focusing on the active acquisition of skills rather than passive transmission of knowledge. Students, organized into teams, will have to make small practical tests, such as construction, presentation and defense of a value proposition or a simplified business plan. They will be given practical examples of entrepreneurs, successful and unsuccessful, some national leaders to share their experience.

Learning Outcomes

It is intended to stimulate in students an attitude of innovation and entrepreneurship through the discussion of key concepts of contact and case studies of success and failure and practical exploitation of scenarios. Special focus will be given to the ability to present ideas, the ability for negotiation and the drafting and defense of a business plan. It is also intended to support students in discovering and developing the qualities, characteristics and attitudes of successful entrepreneurs.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Innovation. Definition of innovation in a business context. The five disciplines of innovation - Identification of key customer needs and market - Value Creation - Champions of Innovation (Innovation Champions) - Teams for Innovation - Organizational Alignment. Innovation Forums. Construction Plans Innovation 2. Proposals and Construction Value - Methodology NABC (Needs, Approach, Bennefit, Competition) 3. Negotiation Techniques 4. Business Plan 5. Leadership and Entrepreneurship - Motivation, training and leadership - Ambition - The importance of the ecosystem and Network - Ethics and Entrepreneurship - Social Entrepreneurship

Head Lecturer(s)

José Basílio Portas Salgado Simões

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 30.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 70.0%

Bibliography

SCADA: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, 3/e, Stuart A. Boyer, ISA -Instrumentation, System & Automation, USA, 2004. Understanding Data Communications, 7th Edition, Gilbert Held, Addison Wesley, 2002 Wireless Sensor Networks, A Systems Perspective – Bulusu, Nirupama e Jha, Sanjay –Artech House, 2005 Measurement Systems and Sensors, Nawrocki, Waldemar, Artech House, 2005 Real-Time Design and Analysis. An Engineer’s Handbook, Laplante, Philip A., 2ndEdition, Wiley Interscience, 1997.