Cursos / 2º Ciclo / Faculty of Economy and Business Management :: Management

ECONOMA CIRCULAR, SUSTENTABILIDADE E INOVAÇÃO - 2023/2024

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 7.5

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Isabel Cantista
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Isabel Cantista

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 1 Horas
Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

The transition from a linear model to a circular model of economy, where the Sustainable Development Goals defined by the United Nations are present calls for innovation in the public as well as in the private sector. It is the aim of the course to share knowledge about the differences between one model and the other and to clarify how innovation management may promote the transition from the first to the latter.

Specific Aims/Objectives

- to identify linear and circular economic model;
- to know the fundamental role of energy in economic and social development and to know sustainable energies;
- to know each component of the circular economy and to identify new business models related to sustainability;
- to know the concepts of national, regional and sectorial systems of innovation and the role of business within these systems;

Skills to be acquired

Independent thinking and analysis of complex economic and social contexts
Ability to define criteria to collect and analyse data;
Capacity to present and argue in an articulated and clear way complex issues;
Capacity to listen and understand opposite points of view and to develop team work.

Teaching Procedures

Teaching will have a pluridisciplinary basis. Concepts and concrete case studies of entrepreneurial success and processes of innovation that contribute to sustainable development . Students will be called to present in a critical way case studies and to reflect on strategies and processes to innovate moving forward circular economy and the pursuit of sustainable development goals defined by the UN to 2030.

Programme

1.Circuar Economy versus Linear Economy.
2. Energy as the basis for development. Renewable energies. Advantages and disadvantages of each type of renewable energy. Paris Agreement and climate change.
3. The objectives of sustainable development and innovation..
4. The systems of innovation: national, regional and sectorial and their impact on the development of sustainability and the advancement of circular economy
5. The characteristics of new business models based on sustainability:
5.1 Reduce production;
5.2 New materials and biodiversity;
5.3 Recycling
5.4 Waste and post-consumer uses.
6. New Product Development: Eco-design and circularity.
7. Sustainable finance: financial and non-financial reporting. The investment on innovation for sustainability: politics, law and investments.

Evaluation Type

Assessment is made by:
- writing and analysis of a case study of a Portuguese or foreign company created in the last 5 years. The selection of the case study is subject to previous approval.
- written exam at the end of the semester.

Teaching Resources

Materials available at the library and spaces/rooms to study. In the classroom data-show, Internet connection, and white board.
At Mooddle other relevant materials will be made available.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Circular Economy
Sustainability
Innovation

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography