Enterprise and Innovation History

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Professor oral presentation.

Presentations of written works in class with discussion of topics selected by the students and hetero-evaluation.

Learning Outcomes

General objectives

- Acquire fundamental knowledge about the concepts of innovation and enterprise in economic history.

- Know the contribution of companies, public and private institutions and the State to innovation throughout history.

Specific objectives

- Know the fundamental contribution of innovations to economic change in historical perspective.

- Identify and justify the main periods of economic history in which innovations contributed to new technical-economic paradigms.

- Discuss the theoretical problem of the relationship between innovation, technological change and economic development.

generic competences

- Capacity for analysis and synthesis.

- Written and oral skills, including mastery of concepts such as business and innovation.

- Ability to establish periodizations and propose comparisons between different historical-institutional periods and contexts.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction: Enterprise, Entrepreneurs and Innovation: history of concepts and concepts in History.

2. Economy and Innovation: the contribution of Joseph Schumpeter and institutionalist and neo-Schumpeterian trends.

3. The Major Eras of Innovation. From “genius inventors” to “collective” innovation.

4. Cycles of economic development, technological change and innovation, a qualitative periodization.

5. Innovation in economic history: the role of companies, public and private institutions and the State.

6. The entrepreneurial state and national innovation systems. Theoretical references and national experiences.

7. Innovation and intellectual property.

8. Economy and sustainability: the economic and social challenges of technological innovations in contemporary society.

Head Lecturer(s)

António Manuel Antunes Rafael Amaro

Assessment Methods

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

Bibliography

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FREEMAN, Chris ; LOUÇÃ, Francisco - Ciclos e crises no capitalismo global : das revoluções industriais à revolução da informação. Porto : Edições Afrontamento, 2004.

GUPTA, Praveen, Inovação Empresarial no Século XXI, Lisboa, Vida Económica, 2008.

MAZZUCATO, Mariana, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, London: Demos, 2011.

MCCRAW, Thomas K., Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction, Harvard University Press, 2007.

Rosenberg N. , Exploring the black box: technology, economics, and history. Cambridge

University Press, Cambridge, 1994.

VALDALISO, Jesús Maria ; LÓPEZ GARCÍA, Santiago - Historia Económica de la empresa. Barcelona : Editorial Crítica, 2000.