Code: | 1EC401 | Acronym: | EINOV |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Economics |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Agrupamento Científico de Economia |
Course/CS Responsible: | Bachelor in Economics |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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LECO | 183 | Bologna Syllabus since 2012 | 3 | - | 3 | 42 | 81 |
The purpose of the course is both to discuss the main perspectives that have emerged along time, and particularly in the last decades, about the role of innovation in the economy and in society and
to provide students with the needed instruments to answer questions such us: what is innovation? How does innovation contribute to the different economies’ performance? What is the source of innovative capability occurring in different sectors, regions and countries? How does research and science affect innovation? What is the policy role in supporting innovation?
To Know and to apply the main theories of Innovation.
To discuss and to assess the main options of technological policy.
1. Concepts and Measurement
1.1. The innovation process: Invention, innovation and diffusion. Technological innovation and other types of innovation.
1.2. Innovation Taxonomy: Freeman approach
1.3. Science, technology and innovation: indicators. The European Innovation Scoreboard
2. Innovation and economic dynamics
2.1. Innovation, economic growth and structural change
2.2. The pioneer approach of Schumpeter: the capitalism as a creative destruction process.
2.3. Innovation and long cycles: the Freeman/Perez proposal
2.4. Innovation, diffusion and growth: the Fagerberg’s “technology gap" model.
3.Fundamentals of Innovation: general framework
3.1. The modern evolutionism
3.2. Firm Determinants. The firm central role– dimension and structure. The role of multinational companies. Innovation networks.
3.3. Innovation process and technological trajectories
4. Sectoral patterns of Innovation
4.1. Appropriability, technological opportunities and cumulativeness
4.2. The Pavitt’s taxonomy
4.3. Dynamics of Pavitt’s taxonomy: application to the industrialization analyses
5. Innovation and Territory
5.1. The role of proximity on the Innovation processes: networks and Innovator milieus
5.2. Creative Cities
6. Innovation Systems
6.1. Concept and functions
6.2. National Systems of Innovation. Comparative analysis at the OECD and EU level.
6.3. Regional Systems of Innovation. SRI taxonomy: the Asheim and Gertler analysis.
7. Innovation Policy
7.1. Foundations: appropriability, market failures and coordination failures; private return and social return of innovative activities.
7.2. The intellectual property problematic and the economics of patents
7.3. Other policy instruments: public investment; financial and fiscal incentives; promotion of technologic entrepreneurship.
Theorectical and practical lessons
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Participação presencial | 0,00 |
Teste | 100,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
If distributed assessment:
There are 3 tests. The final mark is calculated as follows: 30% * TEST 1 + 30% * TEST 2 + 40%* TEST 3.
Approval requires a minimum mark of 9.5 valores, and a mark of no less than 6 valores in TEST 1 and TEST 2. Students not attaining the minimun mark in TEST 1 cannot make the the first phase of final exam.
If final exam:
Student is succeeded if he /she gets a grade equal or higher than 9.5