Official Code: | 6175 |
Acronym: | MIET |
Description: | Our Value Proposition This program promotes an integrated training of managers and entrepreneurs through practical training (hands-on-approach). It is based on solid theoretical concepts and on permanent and professional supervision, which enable the development of skills and knowledge in order to produce efficient knowledge and innovation management in new businesses. These high potential new businesses may be developed in existing companies or by starting new companies. This program offers: i) integrated training in the processes of innovation and commercialization of technology; ii) the promotion of the creation of technology-based businesses; iii) privileged access to the available technology at the University of Porto to start a business; iv) student orientation based on real cases, during the whole process of starting new businesses; v) the support of experienced professors and businessmen in the start of a Portuguese or international business; vi) the integration of diverse valences and competencies in multidisciplinary teams. |
The focus of this course is to foster the ability to transform high technology into innovation, fostering opportunities for disruption of international value chains and enabling the exploration of economic benefits that only effective transfer of technology to market innovation allows, through:
On completion of this course, students shall know to identify the principal characteristics of Design Thinking, and differentiate the various process models and tools, by developing a creative and critical attitude about this innovation method.
The labour market has suffered profound changes in the last few years, therefore it now calls for professionals who can act with independence, autonomy, flexibility, creativity, commitment and who can collaborate. The strategic aim of this course unit is to spread an entrepreneur culture, by combining a set of technical and social skills, which are aimed to encourage the creation of new entrepreneurship or technological intra-entrepreneurship projects. Thus, this course unit aims to contribute to the development of an entrepreneur attitude and to make students look closely to subjects related to the entrepreneurship process, by training them and giving examples.
The course aims at providing the basic conceptual framework in order to develop in the participants the skills that allow them to make decisions and implement actions in the field of marketing as an element of the management process of start-ups and innovation projects.
Introduce the detailed study and analysis of the negotiation process in multicultural environments (beyond the international environment):
To endow students with fundamental concepts of entrepreneurial Strategy development for the commercialization of a technology-based product/service.
To develop and extend the knowledge (i) on Business Models (BM) and on the relevance of its implementation in the specific reality of each business.(ii) on the reality of setting-up a Startup, understanding the major differences with an established company.
To endow students with the use of previously acquired concepts on financial evaluation of investment projects and on funding a new technology based venture.
To endow students with the capability of:
- Creating and implementing a complete, concise and well founded (i) strategic plan and (ii) BM compatible with the strategy, both adequate for a technology based venture.
- Having an holistic and integrated vision of a business venture, involving all its resources and stakeholders
- Assuming and executing the setting up of a startup based on a Business Plan with adequate financial structure.
The goal of the course is to familiarize students with the fundamentals of Marketing Research. The students should be able to design, conduct, and analyze a marketing research study, with a view to making better business decisions.
This course has as its main objective to disseminate knowledge on Innovation and Innovation Management. This will enable students to start research in the area, and secondly, provide them with the basic tools to analyze the processes of creation and innovation and its implications for management, exploring the ways in which innovation can be fostered in organizations. Students will develop skills to analyze the processes of creation and innovation and its implications for management and to explore ways through which innovation can be fostered in organizations.
This is a compulsory course that aims at exploring data, building hypotheses testing and multivariate statistical analysis procedures in the production of scientific knowledge and to consolidate skills for the critical evaluation of their potential and limitations.
Develop a business project opportunity.
Identify technologies with market potential and economic value and provide an initial evaluation of the opportunity.
The main objective of the Business Law curricular unit is to make known the relevant legal framework for pursuing a corporate business plan in the area of technological innovation. Minimizing the legal risks inherent to the exercise of an economic activity commonly involves the constitution of a commercial company (including a startup), being an autonomous legal structure of the founding partners with their own corporate bodies: assembly of partners, management body, body supervisory bodies, as a rule, among other optional corporate bodies. The constitution of a commercial company also organizes the power relations (social rights and obligations) between the founding partners, when there are two or more, and it is possible and advisable to formalize these power relations in the initial company contract and in parasocial agreements ( e.g., preferential rights to acquire quotas or shares; special rights to dividends; special right to reimbursement of the value of quotas or shares, in the event of liquidation of the company; limitations on the transferability of quotas and shares; anti-dilution rights of capital participation ; call and put options; drag-along right and tag-along right, among other contractual clauses). The operation of a commercial company (including a startup) in the market generally involves obtaining financing, whether from partners or, above all, from third parties, with emphasis on obtaining venture capital investment.
Attending the UC provides students with knowledge that allows them to understand the basic legal structure of companies and the relevance of legal advice in the future, with a view to preventing and anticipating the legal risk of certain actions, decisions, transactions and economic and financial operations in the pursuing a business project through a commercial company (including a startup).
To allow students to make use of the knowledge learned (in the first year of the Master programme) in preparing their dissertation plan.
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- Understand some basic concepts of research and its methodologies,
- Identify appropriate research topics and a research problem,
- Prepare a dissertation proposal.