Macroeconomics

Teaching staff

Full Professor
Seminar course coordinator: "Evaluation in Science and Technology"
Associated Laboratory: REQUIMTE, Centro de Química Fina e Biotecnologia-UNL
Tel.: +351 212949668
Fax: + 351 212948385
E-mail: jgc@dq.fct.unl.pt

Programme

1. Innovation - the concept; different perspectives and types. The difference between innovation, invention and difusion. Innovation as a process. Models of invention and of innovation. Measuring innovation - indicators.

2. The Microeconomics of innovation - theory of the firm; success and failure in industrial innovation. Innovation and the size of the firm. Uncertainty, project analysis and innovation. The relationship with the firms'' strategies.

Economics and Management Innovation, add-on

Semester: 
Summer
Offered: 
2021

Prof. Célia da Costa Cabral