Innovation and Knowledge Management
3
2024-2025
01019521
Other areas
Portuguese
Face-to-face
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
The methodology includes lectures, audiovisual materials, cases, and classroom discussion. It seeks to promote active and participatory learning to understand the contents addressed and their application to developing innovative solutions that are socially relevant, responsive to people's expectations, and better outcomes.
Learning Outcomes
Provide students with essential knowledge and skills in innovation and knowledge management, enabling them to intervene as “agents that promote innovation” in the various sectors of economic activity and to understand their main challenges.
Improve skills, develop and update knowledge about economic activity sectors through models associated with innovation and knowledge management.
Develop the ability to collect, organize, and critically analyze content related to innovation and knowledge management in various economic activity sectors and to communicate proposals for value creation.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Innovation – introduction; conceptual issues; perspectives, classifications and the process of innovation; main theories of innovation; economic importance of innovation; enablers and barriers to innovation; innovation management; innovation in some sectors of economic activity.
Knowledge Management - introduction; conceptual issues; knowledge applications; knowledge management tools and new technologies.
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%
Bibliography
Chen, J., & Nonaka, I. (Eds.). (2022). The Routledge Companion to Knowledge Management. Taylor & Francis.
Goffin, K., & Mitchell, R. (2016). Innovation management: effective strategy and implementation. Macmillan International Higher Education, 2016.
Husain, S., & Ermine, J. L. (2021). Knowledge Management Systems: concepts, technologies and practices. Emerald Publishing Limited.
Sarkar, S (2014). Empreendedorismo e Inovação. 3ª edição revista e aumentada. Escolar Editora.
Schenk, E., Barbaroux, P., & Attour, A. (2016). Knowledge management and innovation: Interaction, collaboration, openness. John Wiley & Sons.
Trott, P. (2021). Innovation management and new product development. 7th Edition. Pearson education.
Voehl, F., Harrington, H. J., Fernandez, R., & Trusko, B. (2018). The Framework for Innovation – An Entrepreneur’s Guide to the Body of Innovation Knowledge. CRC Press.