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General information

Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Enric Camón Luis

Trimester: Third term

Credits: 6

Teaching staff: 

Eloi Serrano Robles

Academic year: 2025

Teaching course: 3

Languages ​​of instruction

  • Catalan

Competencies / Learning Outcomes

Basic skills

  • B4_That students can convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences

     

Specific skills

  • E2_Define company policy in international environments and permeate a global and international dimension to business

     

  • E11_Analyze and properly assess the scientific-technological and economic environment, both to seek innovative opportunities and to establish the necessary processes to adapt the organization to this environment.

     

  • E16_Communicate properly orally and in writing in at least one third foreign language

     

General competencies

  • G1_Be able to work in a team, actively participating in tasks and negotiating dissenting opinions until reaching consensus positions, thus acquiring the ability to learn together with other team members and create new knowledge

  • G2_Be able to innovate by developing an open attitude to change and be willing to re-evaluate old mental models that limit thinking

Transversal competences

  • T1_Communicate properly orally and in writing in the official languages ​​of Catalonia

Presentation of the subject

Innovation in business development represents one of the key elements of the competitiveness of companies. It modifies, transforms and shapes their production function and their insertion in the market. But innovation and development can also be seen from an aggregate sphere. This sphere generates dynamics in the structuring of a global economy and technological waves that determine and impact the structuring of the planet's economy and its institutional and environmental dynamics. This subject, through a long-term vision, aims to expand the analytical framework of innovation by seeing what aggregate impact the behavior of companies has on the cycles and structuring of the global economy.

Contents

1. The concepts of innovation and development in the business environment. Elements that influence and effects.

2. The role of technical change in the development of the economy, technological waves and the configuration of Globalization.

2.1 The First Industrial Revolution and its effects on Globalization

2.2 The Second Industrial Revolution and its effects on Globalization.

2.3 The Third Industrial Revolution and its effects on Globalization

3. Artificial Intelligence and today's world: where are we going?

4. Closing lessons on innovation and development in the shaping of a global economy.

Activities and evaluation system

Continuous assessment (50% of the final grade):

  • Three individual activities based on case studies (30% of the final grade, with each activity accounting for 10%)
  • Two individual theoretical midterm exams (20% of the final grade, with each exam accounting for 10%)

Final exam (50% of the final mark)

(During the exam period of the term, the final exam for the subject will take place, which will have a weight of 50% in the final grade. A minimum grade of 5 (out of 10) must be obtained to average the continuous assessment activities. Those students who do not reach 5 will have to take the remedial exam).

Recovery

Only 50% of the final exam marks can be recovered (a 5 out of 10 mark must be obtained in the exam to be averaged with the continuous assessment marks). Continuous assessment activities (carried out during the term) cannot be recovered. A student who has not appeared in the first exam cannot appear for the recovery exam.

Any form of academic fraud will be sanctioned in accordance with the center's assessment regulations. If signs of fraud are detected, including the improper use of generative artificial intelligence tools, the subject's teaching staff may call the student for an individual interview with the aim of verifying their authorship.

 

Bibliography

Basic

Freeman, Christopher & Soete, Luc (2008). The economy of technological change. Siglo XXI Publishers

Sudrià, Carles & Blasco, Yolanda (2019). World Economic History: From the Paleolithic to the Present. University of Barcelona Editions.

Complementary

Landes, David S. (1999). The wealth and poverty of nations: Why some are so rich and others so poor. Criticism

Mokyr, Joel (2018). Rudder lever: Technology, innovation and economic progress. Criticism

Pérez, Carlota (2004). Technological revolutions and financial capital: The dynamics of the great financial bubbles. Siglo XXI Publishers.