IDENTIFYING DATA 2021_22
Subject (*) INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURIALISM Code 17254128
Study programme
Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering (2017)
Cycle 1st
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
4.5 Compulsory Fourth 2Q
Language
Anglès
Department Electronic, Electric and Automatic Engineering
Coordinator
CORREIG BLANCHAR, FRANCESC XAVIER
E-mail xavier.correig@urv.cat
Lecturers
CORREIG BLANCHAR, FRANCESC XAVIER
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General description and relevant information This subject can be virtualized in whole or in part, if necessary, due to COVID-19.

Competences
Type A Code Competences Specific
 CE15 Capacity to manage software and hardware infrastructures in health centres and to innovate ICT processes and products for application in bioengineering and health.
Type B Code Competences Transversal
 CT1 Use information in a foreign language effectively
 CT3 Solve problems critically, creatively and innovatively in their field.
Type C Code Competences Nuclear

Learning outcomes
Type A Code Learning outcomes
 CE15 Understand the techniques and procedures used in the design and implementation of an innovation process by an organisation.
Use creativity and personal initiative to autonomously identify and develop an innovative idea.
Understand how innovative processes are organised and developed in a technology company.
Use knowledge and strategic skills to create and manage innovative products and ideas in the field of telecommunications within current regulatory framework.
Use ITC tools to search for resources and information.
Identify the technologies and actions that an engineer needs to implement to contribute to the sustainability of societies and the planet in a globalised world
Type B Code Learning outcomes
 CT1 Use information in a foreign language effectively
 CT3 Identify the situation as a problem in the field and be sufficiently motivated to face up to it
Follow a systematic method to divide a problem into parts, identify the causes and apply the knowledge specific to the discipline
Design a new solution by using all the resources necessary to cope with the problem.
Include the details of the proposed solution in a realistic model
Reflect on the model proposed, find shortcomings and suggest improvements
Type C Code Learning outcomes

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. Introduction to the innovation
2. Innovation in companies and institutions
3. Technology monitoring
4. Protect your ideas
5. New ideas and project management
6. The (lean)Canvas model
7. Technology valorization
8. La responsabilitat social de l'enginyeria i els sistemes nacionals d'innovació

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Competences (*) Class hours
Hours outside the classroom
(**) Total hours
Introductory activities
1 0 1
Reading written documents and graphs
CE15
0 20.5 20.5
Self-monitoring activities
CE15
CT1
CT3
0 5 5
Presentations / oral communications
CT1
9 7 16
Assignments
CE15
CT1
CT3
12 15 27
Lecture
CE15
CT1
19 20 39
Personal attention
1 0 1
 
Mixed tests
CE15
3 0 3
 
(*) On e-learning, hours of virtual attendance of the teacher.
(**) The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies
  Description
Introductory activities Introduction to the course
Reading written documents and graphs Reading and digestion of the essential and complementary bibliography
Self-monitoring activities Selfevaluation test
Presentations / oral communications (Lean)Model Canvas presentation (in pairs)
Assignments Elaboration of the Technology Monitoring Bulletin and the (Lean)Canvas Model
Lecture Exposició magistral a classe amb tots els alumnes
Personal attention That is, personal tuition

Personalized attention
Description
That is, personal tuition

Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Self-monitoring activities
CE15
CT1
CT3
Self assesing test for every unit 10
Presentations / oral communications
CT1
(Lean)Canvas Model presentation 05
Assignments
CE15
CT1
CT3
Elaboration of the Technology monitoring Belletin, the (Lean)Canvas Model and the seed project 35
Mixed tests
CE15
Final exam 50
Others  
 
Other comments and second exam session

Sources of information

Basic Joe Tidd, John Bessant, Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change, Wiley, 5th Edition, 2013
Mark Dodgson, David Gann, Ammon Salter, The Management of Technological Innovation, Oxford University Press, 2008

Complementary Jairo Chaur Bernal, Vigilancia e Inteligencia Competitiva, IALE Tecnología, 2013

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