The  purpose  of  this  study  is  to  identify  and  analyze  reoccurring  insights  in Entrepreneurship  Education  (EE)  literature,  fill  gaps  in  the  scholarly  discussion,  and develop innovative teaching tools for entrepreneurship educators. The study is based on an in-depth  review  of  the  current  EE  literature  drawing  on  insights  from  about  70  studies. The analysis finds a clear need for: EE on the university level; clear goals and objectives; clear  program  descriptions;  a  more  practical  orientation;  and  true  alumni  networks. Additionally it finds that EE should be interdisciplinary, student-centered, practical, as well as containing strong elements of reflection, support, and networking. These findings are a valuable  resource  for  educators  interested  in  innovative  teaching  practices  and entrepreneurship  program  design  in  a  university  context.  This  paper  develops  three suggestions  on  the  use  of  innovative  teaching  practices,  namely  a  course  on  business models,  an  adapted  form  of  business  simulation  with  a  focus  on  cross-disciplinary networking, and a comprehensive class in entrepreneurial venturing that takes the student through all steps of establishing and growing a business.

p. 1 - 228 / Submitted by Santiago Fabio (fabio.ssantiago@hotmail.com) on 2013-01-22T18:21:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 33333.pdf: 1148951 bytes, checksum: 7fa9101fcd08c542f9c9e7df1c2e0b2f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-01-22T18:21:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 33333.pdf: 1148951 bytes, checksum: 7fa9101fcd08c542f9c9e7df1c2e0b2f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / A inovação é um fator crítico para a obtenção de vantagem competitiva, o que pressupõe que o crescimento econômico de países e organizações depende diretamente do grau de inovação concebidas e executadas por estes. Diante de tal importância, inúmeras pesquisas, como o Manual de Oslo e o Manual Frascati, ambos idealizados pela OCDE, e no Brasil, a ANPEI e a PINTEC apresentam metodologias para medir o grau de inovação dos países e de suas empresas. Entretanto, os processos inovativos são altamente sistêmicos e complexos, variam conforme o tipo de tecnologia e o tamanho das firmas/instituições, caracterizando-se pela extrema dificuldade de serem medidos. Neste contexto, este trabalho objetivou verificar os fatores fomentadores de inovações em bases sistemáticas que compõem o ambiente organizacional do Hospital Jorge Valente, instalado em Salvador-Ba. A inovação analisada foi o processo de concepção, execução e implantação do Planejamento Estratégico de Tecnologia da Informação do Hospital Jorge Valente. Sob a guia do embasamento teórico, foram estudados os conceitos acerca da inovação, das organizações inovadoras, das metodologias de mensuração de inovações e do Sistema Nacional de Inovação. O estudo empírico executado no Hospital Jorge Valente se dividiu em duas etapas. Na primeira etapa foi realizada uma análise profunda da empresa a fim de descrever detalhadamente a inovação “Planejamento Estratégico de Tecnologia da Informação” (PETI), levantar os acontecimentos históricos responsáveis pela construção de um ambiente inovador, resultando na elaboração da linha do tempo da organização. Para a segunda etapa, descritiva e quantitativa, foram aplicados os questionários de Análise das Dimensões e Fatores de Inovação e o Minnesota Innovation Survey (MIS), em um grupo de 19 pessoas. A metodologia utilizada para realização desta pesquisa foi desenvolvida pelo Fórum de Inovação FGV/Eaesp, e tem na sua essência a realização de estudos de casos de organizações inovadoras. As conclusões deste trabalho confirmam que o Hospital Jorge Valente apresenta os fatores que caracterizam uma organização inovadora, e que estes fatores, por sua vez, são potencializadores de inovações em bases sistemáticas. Constatou-se também que os resultados da inovação “Planejamento Estratégico de Tecnologia da Informação” (PETI) vêm proporcionando o aperfeiçoamento da organização em todos os seus aspectos e, portanto, realimentam o processo de inovação e a obtenção de novos resultados. / Salvador

Innovation networks are not only about connections, but also dynamics, structures and influences. This research focuses on these three new aspects of innovation networks. The results of this research show that innovation networks have regularities in their dynamics, structures and influences. In the conclusion, these regularities are presented in the network snapshots and regression modelling. This research makes contributions in improving the understanding about how service innovation is created.

The aim of this thesis is to describe the efficiency of the company and its increase through innovative techniques, together with the description of different types of innovations. In the next step, the analysis of innovative techniques in an enterprise is presented. Author of this thesis have chosen a company XY for my work this company´s management doesn´t want its name to be used in this work. While analysing the innovation activities of the company, author focused on the e-shop, which is a significant income activity of the company. The innovation in this case is of marketing type, there is a gradual development and expansion of the e-shop as a result, the company gets into the wider public consciousness. The result of the data analysis, costs of the internet store and the generated sales, is a significant growth in the volume of orders and more than doubling sales and profit over the reporting period. The benefit of this thesis is the evaluation of important business activities and the recommendation for its further develop-ment.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-20T12:31:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Kleber Abreu Sousa.pdf: 2173963 bytes, checksum: c50b3a4609f00940b9603215e39b2bf3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The purpose of this project was to evaluate the dynamics of innovation in biobusiness in the city of Manaus, in the food & beverage and herbal & phytocosmetic companies in order to investigating their practices, based on structured interviews. It was possible to detect the elements that characterize innovation manifested more intensively in the segments of herbal & phytocosmetic than in the food & beverage. Through the analysis of the information collected could also be concluded that the innovative environment for these organizations begins to gain a little more robust, evidenced when observing the articulation of most businesses with ICTs and business support agencies. In some cases, this relationship seems to be more synergistic, in others not so much, but it was important to note that there is a search for such cooperation. The concern and interest of businesses in herbal & phytocosmetic in competing bids to grant and effort that has been done to innovate through access to foundations and funding reveals a new setting for these organizations. This suggests that the availability of government resources, continuously, and the development of programs that encourage interaction between universities and the private sector can stimulate the emergence of new companies in these segments. From these findings it was possible to detect the existence of "innovative activities" in companies considered that, although one can not say that they form a cohesive and effective in each of them, can serve as a basis for guiding policies to encourage development segment of food & drinks and herbal & phytocosmetic. / Foi objetivo desse projeto, avaliar a dinâmica da inovação em bionegócios na cidade de Manaus, nas empresas de alimentos & bebidas e fitoterápicos & fitocosméticos, a partir da investigação das suas práticas, com base na realização de entrevistas estruturadas. Foi possível detectar que os elementos que caracterizam a inovação se manifestam de forma mais intensa nos segmentos de fitoterápicos & fitocosméticos, do que nos segmentos de alimentos & bebidas. Pôde-se concluir também que o ambiente inovativo para essas organizações começa a ganhar um pouco mais de robustez, fato evidenciado quando se observa a articulação da maioria das empresas com Instituições de Ciência e Tecnologia (ICT‟s) e com órgãos de apoio empresarial. Em alguns casos, essa relação parece ser mais sinérgica, em outros casos nem tanto, porém é importante notar que há uma busca por essa cooperação. A preocupação e o interesse das empresas de fitoterápicos & fitocosméticos em concorrer à editais de subvenção e o esforço que tem sido feito para inovar por meio do acesso a fundações que disponibilizam recursos para as atividades de inovação e ainda a utilização de recursos financeiros próprios, revela um novo cenário para essas organizações. Isso sugere que a disponibilidade de recursos governamentais, de forma contínua, e o desenvolvimento de programas que estimulem a interação entre universidades e a iniciativa privada, podem estimular o surgimento de novas empresas nos referidos segmentos. A partir dessas constatações pôde-se detectar a existência de atividades inovativas no grupo de empresas examinado que, embora ainda não se possa afirmar que formem um conjunto articulado e eficaz em cada uma delas, podem servir de base para orientar políticas de incentivo e estratégias empresariais necessárias ao desenvolvimento do segmento de alimentos & bebidas e fitoterápicos & fitocosméticos.

A criação de parques tecnológicos tem sido bastante acionada para incentivar o processo inovador no Brasil. Verifica-se um grande aumento no número de iniciativas de parques tecnológicos, fato que reflete as políticas de incentivo específico aos parques e a importância que a inovação possui como parte do processo de desenvolvimento econômico. Considerados como ambientes propícios às atividades das empresas inovadoras, os parques tecnológicos tem como objetivo reunir elementos específicos que gerem uma sinergia capaz de formar redes de cooperação para a inovação. As relações entre empresas, universidades e centros de pesquisa recebem, portanto, importância destacada uma vez que podem engendrar inovações e transferência de tecnologia. Desta forma, os parques tecnológicos podem constituir meios inovadores que, de acordo com Aydalot (1986), correspondem as condições externas à empresa que impulsionam a adoção da inovação e que podem desempenhar um papel determinante no processo de incubação de inovações. No Brasil, o estado de São Paulo constitui o ente federativo com o maior número de iniciativas de parques tecnológicos e também é o único a possuir uma política específica para o seu fomento, o Sistema Paulista de Parques Tecnológicos - SPTec. Partindo da análise dos parques tecnológicos do estado de São Paulo em operação e com credenciamento definitivo no SPTec, esta tese busca compreender a forma de atuação dos parques no fomento da inovação, como estruturas de apoio e como estruturas capazes de suscitar inovação, podendo compor meios inovadores. / The creation of science parks has been quite adopted to encourage the innovative process in Brazil. There is a large increase in the number of science parks initiatives, a fact that reflects the specific incentive policies to parks and the importance that innovation has as part of the economic development process. Considered environments capable of developing innovative activities in companies, science parks aim to bring together specific elements that create a synergy able to forming collaborative networks for innovation. Relations between companies, universities and research centers receive so prominent importance since they can engender innovation and technology transfer. Thus, science parks can provide innovative environments that, according to Aydalot (1986), correspond to the external conditions that drive enterprise adoption of innovation and that can play a decisive role in the incubation of innovation process. In Brazil, the state of São Paulo is the federal entity with the largest number of initiatives science parks and is also the only one to have a specific policy for promoting them, the Paulista System Technology Parks - SPTec. Based on the analysis of science parks in the state of São Paulo in operation and final accreditation in SPTec, this thesis seeks to understand the modus operandi of the parks in fostering innovation as support structures as structures capable of giving rise to innovation. In this movement, science parks can compose innovative environments.

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Social dominance influences many aspects of the life of animals living in social groups, including fitness. Recent work suggests that individuals occupying different positions in a dominance hierarchy may differ in their behavioural and cognitive traits. The first objective of this thesis was to determine whether personality (i.e. consistent behavioural differences between individuals) is correlated with dominance in natural groups of black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) in the wild. Dominance relationships within these groups were highly asymmetrical and transitive, which is typical of linear dominance hierarchies. None of the measured personality traits (i.e. aggressiveness in hand, exploration, activity and neophilia) were significantly correlated with dominance. These results suggest that personality does not contribute to the formation of black-capped chickadee hierarchies and add to the growing body of evidence that inherent attributes of individuals are not sufficient to explain the structure of linear dominance hierarchies observed in the wild. The second objective of this thesis was to investigate how dominance and correlates of competitive ability (i.e. sex, age and body condition) are related to novel problem-solving performance, which is a proxy for innovativeness, the invention of new behavioural patterns or the modification of an existing behaviour in a novel context. Problem-solving performance was not significantly associated with sex, age or body condition, but dominants were more efficient problem-solvers than subordinates. This finding suggests that efficiency when solving a novel problem might be driven by cognitive capacity instead of the necessity induced by the social position of an individual. Overall, results of this thesis help to better understand dominance hierarchies in wild groups of animals.

Diploma thesis deals with the positive influence on the tourism sector in marketing due to innovative technologies. The main objective of this work is to acquaint the reader with the basic typology and characteristics of marketing tools, with particular emphasis on selected species, taking into consideration the specificities of the tourism industry and based on the business described company. The whole concept is designed to reflect the very real conditions, focusing on the possibility of using various communication tools in terms of limited financial resources. Assumption is that despite the limited budget for marketing department, which does not allow the use of marketing tools is applying appropriate communications mix to create an effective form of promotion. Another point is the claim that the shift from the concept of "learning organization" to the concept of "mutually learning organization" and build a lasting relationship of partnership, allowing to obtain a competitive advantage.

This thesis deals with patents and their impact on innovative activity. Patents represent some kind of regulation of a free market which should improve market failures and create incentives for innovation activity. This stimulation should be then reflected in the growth of technologies. The relation between patenting and productivity which represents the growth of technologies is analyzed on panel data comprising of Finland, Denmark, Italy, Great Britain and the Netherlands. The analysis is undertaken on the industry level, namely on chemical industry, as firms in this industry consider patents as being an efficient form of invention protection. The outcomes of my analysis imply a difference between short term and long term relation between patents and productivity. Patents do not seem to influence productivity immediately, they seem to have a negative impact in the long run though.