Checking date: 30/04/2019


Course: 2019/2020

Advanced Topics in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation
(17191)
Master in Business and Finance (Plan: 362 - Estudio: 69)
EPE


Coordinating teacher: PALOMERAS VILCHES, NEUS

Department assigned to the subject: Business Administration Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 5.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Technology Management
Objectives
After this course, the student will be able to: - To understand the behavior of companies and their strategies related to technology and innovation - To master the mechanisms of generation, development and implementation of new technologies, both by established companies and new entrants and their organizational consequences - To understand the entrepreneurial challenge associated with innovation
Description of contents: programme
Review of the main recent research lines strategy of innovation and entrepreneurship, with a special emphasis on the study of the theoretical and empirical literature on the individual, structural and contextual factors that facilitate and inhibit the generation and application of new technologies in established and entrepreneurial firms.
Learning activities and methodology
In-depth study and analysis of the main relevant papers in the area Replication analysis
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.