Social Factors of Innovation A
Code
9791
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
António Paulo Brandão Moniz de Jesus
Weekly hours
3
Total hours
82
Teaching language
Inglês
Objectives
Notions of solidarity and sustainable economies. Development of information on science and technology policies at regional and national levels in Europe, the USA and Japan
Analysis of indicators of scientific and technological innovation and its policies
Subject matter
1. Introduction to the social dimension of innovation: agents, institutions, policies
2. Technological innovation with sustainable features
3. Solidary economy as a social factor of innovation
4. Indicators of sustainable innovation: application to case studies
5. Policies of Science and Technology in Europe, USA and Japan
6. The strategical plans of technological investment decision: examples and simulations
Bibliography
Burns, Tom; Stalker, G.M., The management of innovation, Oxford. 1995. 3rd ed.. 269 p.
CALLON, M.; LARÉDO, P.; MUSTAR, P.: The Strategic Management of Research and Technology, Paris, Economica Int., 1997.
LAY, Gunter; SHAPIRA, Philip; WENGEL, Jürgen Eds. (1999): Innovation in Production – The Adoption and Impacts of New Manufacturing Concepts in German Industry, Heidelberg, Physica-Verlag.
REICH, R. (2000), The future of success. Work and life in the New Economy, Vintage, London.
Teaching method
In the continuous evaluation process at this course, the main objective is to develop group projects related to the thesis or practical activities.
Each group must take a topic related to their engineering project theme, and analyse it through the collected information on innovation processes, their industrial application(s), research developed on that topic in Portugal, at the European level, and eventually on a specific national case.
There must have place to collect information from Japanese and North American institution sources on innovation policies.