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General information

Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Josep López Xarbau

Trimester: First term

Credits: 6

Teaching staff: 

Sonia Llorens Cervera

Academic year: 2025

Teaching course: 4

Languages ​​of instruction

  • Catalan
  • Spanish

Competencies / Learning Outcomes

Specific skills

  • K27. Recognize the basic concepts of the company and the organization of companies.

  • K29. Recognize the concepts of industrial policy in the immediate environment.

  • K30. Recognizing the importance of competition policy in coordination with industrial and technological policy.

  • K31. Identify the different stages of the innovation process, the different agents of the territorial innovation system, and the relations of cooperation and competition that are established between them.

  • S25. Recognize the process of creating a business and be able to design a business plan.

  • S33. Apply their capacity for critical analysis, self-knowledge, emotional intelligence and their ability to learn to learn to resolve the situations they have to face within their personal or professional sphere.

  • C8. Carry out analyses and write technical reports on IT and management products and solutions.

  • C10. Develop their ideas in an appropriate and well-argued manner, both in writing and verbally in front of an audience, understand and present their opinion in an argumentative manner in front of a text or audiovisual content.

  • C20. Carry out the assigned work based on basic guidelines given, deciding how much time to spend on each section, including personal contributions and expanding the sources of information indicated.

  • C34. Develop a critical judgment in the face of a reality presented using arguments, being able to show collaborative work skills in various groups and recognizing the right of people to participate in issues that affect them, also identifying the challenges of the circular economy and current solutions in their discipline.

Presentation of the subject

Subject framed in the matter of organization of companies. The course aims to introduce students to strategies and tools to implement the process and management of industrial innovation, with a focus on learn by doing.

The classroom in which the subject is taught (physically or virtually) is a safe space, free of sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic and discriminatory attitudes, whether towards students or teachers. We trust that together we can create a safe space where we can make mistakes and learn without having to suffer prejudice from others. 

Contents

0 # CONTENTS  INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT
  DESCRIPTION Contents
    Objectives and competencies
    Activities
    Evaluation system
     
1 # CONTENTS  INTRODUCTION TO INNOVATION
  DESCRIPTION Motivations and definition of innovation
    Types of innovation
    The process of innovation
     
2 # CONTENTS  INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
  DESCRIPTION Innovation process models
    Definition of the innovation strategy and plan
    Selection and prioritization of innovation projects
    Project portfolio management. R & D & I projects
    New models for management: Lean Thinking and Agile Management
    Models for managing innovation in SMEs
    New industrial business models
     
3 # CONTENTS  TOOLS FOR INNOVATION
  DESCRIPTION Tools for detecting unmet needs and opportunities
    Competitive intelligence
    Solution generation tools
     
4 # CONTENTS  KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION
  DESCRIPTION Intellectual capital models
    Knowledge management models
    Industrial property
    Patents
    Valuation of inventions
     
5 # CONTENTS  INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
  DESCRIPTION Key factors
    Elements to develop a culture of innovation
    Change management and barriers to innovation
    Open and intrapreneurial innovation
     
6 # CONTENTS  TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION POLICY
  DESCRIPTION Innovation and territorial development
    National, regional and local innovation systems
    Ecosystems for innovation
    Cooperation with technological innovation objectives
    Technology and knowledge transfer
    Innovation as a basis for business competitiveness
     
7 # CONTENTS  INNOVATION FOR THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
  DESCRIPTION Circular Economy as a resilience strategy
    EC Strategies
    Application of Innovation. Case studies
   
     
     
     
     

 

 

 

Activities and evaluation system

( ) Attendance at final exam is mandatory.

The average must be equal to or greater than 5 points in order to pass the subject.

Activities may be retaken if the minimum required to pass the subject is not reached.

ACTIVITIES PES discipline
CONTRIBUTIONS/PARTICIPATION IN THE CLASSROOM 10 %
PARTIAL EXAMS 30 %
FINAL THESIS DELIVERY AND DEFENSE 30 %
FINAL EXAM ( ) 30 %

Bibliography

Basic

"Technology and innovation in the company". Ed UPC Jaume Valls and Pere Escorsa (2003)

The Systematization of innovation: rules of the UNE 166.000 R+D+I series

ISBN-84 393-6690-6

Complementary

"Generation of business models"; Ed Deusto Alexander Osterwalder&Yves Pigneur

"Esquivar la mediocrity", Xavier Marcet

2017

ISBN: 978-84-17114-35-0

"Exponential Organizations", Salim Ismail

2014

ISBN papel: 978-84-686-8631-8
ISBN digital: 978-84-686-8638-7

 

"Serious game: How to simulate to innovate the best companies." Ed Harvard Business School Press; Michael Shrage (2000)

http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/

http://www.xaviermarcet.com/

http://xavierferras.blogspot.com/

https://innolandia.es/los-11-mejores-videos-tedx-sobre-innovacion/

https://www.triz.org/index.php/triz/triz