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General information

Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Judith Turrión Prats

Trimester: Third term

Credits: 6

Teaching staff: 

Guillermo Antuña Martinez

Academic year: 2025

Teaching course: 3

Languages ​​of instruction

  • Spanish

Competencies / Learning Outcomes

Basic skills

  • CB2. That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the development and defense of arguments and problem solving within their area of study.

  • CB4. That students can convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences.

  • CB5. That students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.

Specific skills

  • CE11. Analyze and evaluate the scientific-technological and economic environment, to look for innovative opportunities and establish necessary processes to adapt the organization.

  • CE2. Define company policy in international environments and instill a global and international dimension in business.

General competencies

  • CG1. Be able to work in a team, actively participate in tasks and negotiate in the face of dissenting opinions until reaching consensus positions, thus acquiring the ability to learn together with other team members and create new knowledge.

  • CG2. Be able to innovate by developing an open attitude towards change and be willing to re-evaluate old mental models that limit thinking.

  • CG3. Integrate the values ​​of social justice, equality between men and women, equal opportunities for all and especially for people with disabilities, so that the studies of Business Administration and Innovation Management contribute to to train citizens for a just, democratic society based on a culture of dialogue and peace.

Transversal competences

  • CT1. Communicate properly orally and in writing in the two official languages ​​of Catalonia.

  • CT2. Show willingness to learn about new cultures, experiment with new methodologies and encourage international exchange.

  • CT3. Demonstrate entrepreneurial leadership and management skills that strengthen personal confidence and reduce risk aversion.

  • CT4. Master computer tools and their main applications for ordinary academic and professional activity.

  • CT5. Develop tasks applying the acquired knowledge with flexibility and creativity and adapting them to new contexts and situations.

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.

 

The classroom (physical or virtual) is a safe space, free of sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic and discriminatory attitudes, either 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 the prejudices of others.

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.