Innovation and Knowledge Management

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)

No

Syllabus

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.

Head Lecturer(s)

Víctor Manuel dos Reis Raposo

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%

Bibliography

BARBAROUX, P., ATTOUR, A. & SCHENK, E. 2016. Knowledge management and innovation: Interaction, collaboration, openness, John Wiley & Sons.

DALKIR, K. 2017. Knowledge management in theory and practice, MIT press.

GOFFIN, K. & MITCHELL, R. 2016. Innovation management: effective strategy and implementation, Macmillan International Higher Education.

SARKAR, S. 2014. Empreendedorismo e Inovação, Escolar Editora.

SWANN, G. M. P. 2009. The Economics of Innovation: An Introduction. The Economics of Innovation: An Introduction.

Para além da bibliografia geral aqui indicada será fornecida bibliografia complementar para cada um dos temas abordados/In addition to the general bibliography indicated here, additional bibliography will be provided for each topic covered.