GIT, Innovation and Entrepeneurship

Recommended Prerequisites

Fundamentals of GIS.

Teaching Methods

Lectures (reduced to a minimum); thematic research work carried out by the students, to be presented individually and in group. Evaluation includes also reports resulting from field trips to companies, and the individual preparation and submission of a Business Plan in the area of GIS-TIG (40% of final assessment).

Learning Outcomes

The need to establish dynamic and operational bridges between Knowledge and Society - Transfer of Knowledge - justifies the proposal to create a course with these features, within an area (SIG- TIG) that has a vast potential market without administrative boundaries, and in which students may create their own employment. The course aims to:

- Sensitize students to values like innovation and entrepreneurship, and the creation of knowledge-based enterprises;

- Sensitize students to the importance of entrepreneurship - autonomy and boldness - in the creation and/or development of their academic or professional activity after graduation;

- Stimulate the innovative spirit and creativity as catalysts for successful entrepreneurship;

- Encourage the creation of spin -off / start-up (geo)technology-based enterprises, in a process involving teachers, researchers and students, as well as the institutional support of the UC's incubator - IPN.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Knowledge and Society

1.1. The University - abode of wisdom;

1.2. Science, Society and the Labour Market;

2. Introduction to Entrepreneurship

2.1. Being Entrepreneur - Innovation and Creativity;

2.2. Research and Transfer of Knowledge;

3. he world of business organizations

3.1 Legislative support;

3.2 "Motivation" and "Resilience", "Discipline" and "Efficiency" in organizations;

3.3 Ethics as a regulatory principle of organizations;

4. Creation of a technology-based spin-off/start-up enterprise

4.1 The institutional context;

4.2 Opportunity and external context;

4.3 Dynamic analysis of the added (and sustained) value of the product/service;

4.4 Analysis and management of "Risk" in a GIS business context;

5. Financial architecture and management

5.1 Elements of business management;

5.2 Stakeholders, Business Angels and investment;

5.3 Partnerships and establishment of business partnerships (eg LDA and SA).

6. Branding and Territorial Marketing.

7. Preparation of a Business Plan.

Head Lecturer(s)

José Gomes dos Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Report of a seminar or field trip: 30.0%
Research work: 30.0%
Business Plan: 40.0%

Bibliography

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EUROPEAN COMMISSION (2009) - 30 Good Practice Case Studies in University-Business Cooperation. Report Part of the DG Education and Culture Study on the Cooperation Between Higher Education Institutions and Public and Private Organisations in Europe, Science-to-Business Marketing Center, Germany.
ETZKOWITZ, H. et al. (2000)- The future of the university and the university of the future: evolution of tower to entrepeneurial paradigm. Research Policy, vol.29, 313-330.
HASHIMOTO, Marcos (2009) - Lições de Empreendedorismo. Manole Ed.,148 p.
MARQUES, A. P. e ALVES, M. G. (2010) - A inserção profissional de graduados em Portugal: (re)configurações teóricas e empíricas, V.N. de Famalicão: Ed. Húmus Lda.