Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Course Type:
Master’s Programme

Programme Introduction

This programme aims to train qualified professionals capable of developing creative skills, innovating and being entrepreneurs in theorganizations where they work, or to create their own business. The course promotes practical training oriented torespond to the challenges that companies face, stimulating different, disruptive and “out of the box” thinking, using newtechnological, societal, and environmental trends that bring new opportunities, new ways of management and businessmodels.
The acquired skills will allow to intervene in dynamic and complex contexts, managing resources, teams andpromoting creativity, proactivity and autonomy in each individual, to decide and act. Students are expected to develop and work closely with companies, to research and critically analyze information and to present solutions to real problems andin that context to discover and develop their human and relational skills.

Programme Coordinator

Ana Catarina Cadima Lisboa
coord.meinov.estg@ipleiria.pt.

Reference

2164

School

Technology and Management

City

Leiria

Language

Portuguese

Type

Evening

Length

3 Semesters

Vacancies

General and International student contingent:  30

Notice

Edital 2026 (PT Doc retf)

DGES certification

(updating)

Objectives

Programme
  • Develop entrepreneurial skills by stimulating creativity, initiative, creating innovation, measuring risk and taking action;
  • Develop critical thinking about the external and internal business / organizational context;
  • Work on creative processes and guide them towards innovation management within organizations;
  • Develop skills to analyze, formulate, select, implement, evaluate, and change the strategy of organizations;
  • Explore diagnostic and problem solving methodologies;
  • Manage teams being able to identify skills, working and creating knowledge in a network;
  • Create synergies through collaborative networks;
  • Innovative processes, procedures, products / services, markets or business models with added value fororganizations;
  • Understand and anticipate the behavior of stakeholders;
  • Apply criteria for evaluation and selection of investment projects;
  • Communicate defending or presenting points of view and strategic options.
1. Year
ID Name Semester ECTS Length
S1 5 30 h
  1. Entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and the entrepreneur
  2. The entrepreneurial process
  3. External environment analysis
  4. Market analysis
  5. Opportunities and business ideas
S1 5 30 h
  1. Future Agenda: New trends and behaviors
  2. New Materials, Processes; Products; Services and Markets
  3. New Challenges
S1 5 30 h
  1. How to create a proper prototype
  2. How to test efficiently
  3. Designing the future
    1. How to apply lean to Business Model Thinking
    2. Why the Business Design ecosystem becomes a lever for another level of innovation
    3. How Design Criteria Will Change the Digital Transformation Paradigm
  4. Design a product or a service using the Design Thinking methodology
  5. Prototype test
S1 5 30 h
  1. Company definitions
    1. Company ownership
    2. The Individual entrepreneur
    3. Companies
  2. Types of financing
    1. Internal Financing
    2. External Financing
  3. Labour Relations
    1. Types of contract
    2. Services supply
    3. Social Security declarations
  4. Competition and Consumer Protection
    1. Anticompetitive behaviour
    2. Consumer Rights
  5. Intelectual Propriety Definition
  6. Copyright and Related Rights
    1. Copyright
    2. Related Right
  7. Industrial Property
    1. Legal regime
    2. International Industrial Property Legal Regime
  8. Current issues on Intellectual Property
S1

One of these:

  1. Contabilidade e Finanças
    1. Part I- Accounting
      1. Financial Accounting: an overview
      2. International Accounting .
        1. The global organizations for the accountancy profession.
        2. The vision of global accounting Standards
      3. Accounting Conceptual Framework
      4. Accounting and reporting
      5. Analysis of selected issues of reporting and evaluation
    2. Part II- Finance
      1. Corporate Finance
      2. Value Creation
      3. Stock Valuation
  2. Gestão do Conhecimento e Qualidade
    1. What is Knowledge Management
    2. The Company and Knowledge Management
    3. Learning and Knowledge Capture
    4. Organization and analysis of knowledge
    5. Infrastructure and organizational culture
    6. Networks and communities for knowledge
    7. Knowledge Management Strategies
    8. Measurement Knowledge
    9. The intellectual capital
    10. Quality management – concepts and practice
    11. Quality Management – ISO
    12. Integrating KM and QM
  3. Marketing de Novos Produtos
    1. Introduction
    2. Creativity and product development
    3. Innovation Management
    4. The Marketing Plan
  4. Marketing Estratégico e Planeamento
    1. Strategic Marketing: Fundamental Principles
    2. Marketing strategy
    3. Implementation of the strategic marketing plan
Strategy and New Business Models S2 5 30 h
Innovation and Technology Management S2 5 30 h
Digital Transformation and Business S2 5 30 h
Financefor Entrepreneurs S2 5 30 h
Option II S2 30 h
2. Year
ID Name Semester ECTS Length

The student mus choose on of the CU: Dissertation in Entrepreneurshipand Innovation, Project in Entrepreneurship and Innovation or Internship in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Entry Requirements

People who can apply to the Master Degree:
a) Holders of an undergraduate degree or a legal equivalent;
b) Holders of a foreign higher education degree, granted after a first cycle of studies, under the principles of the BolognaProcess, by a State, which has subscribed this Process;
c) Holders of a foreign higher education diploma that is recognized as meeting the objectives of an undergraduate degreeby the Technical and Scientific Council of the School of Technology and Management;
d) Holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum that is recognized as certifying the skills to attend thiscycle of studies by the Technical and Scientific Council of the School of Technology and Management.

International Student
All information related to the  international student application should be consulted on our International Students webpage.

Accreditation

State: Accredited
Number of years of accreditation: 6
Publication Date:06/05/2021
A3ES Accredition

More Information

Master´s Webpage

If you are an International Student you can contact us to: studywithus@ipleiria.pt

Online Application

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How to apply

Application Fee

60€

Enrolment Fee

General contingent: 50€
International student contingent: 100€

Tuition Fee

General contingent: 1140€
International student contingent: 3000€