MIET0018 - ECTS

The focus of this course is to foster the ability to transform high technology into innovation, fostering opportunities for disruption of international value chains and enabling the exploration of economic benefits that only effective transfer of technology to market innovation allows, through:

1. Understanding the fundamentals of technology commercialization.
2. Identification and evaluation of market opportunities for technology-based products and services.
3. Development of strategies for protection and management of intellectual property.
4. Analysis of Business models considerations for technology commercialization.
5. Learning effective marketing and sales techniques for technology-based products.
6. Understanding regulatory and ethical considerations in technology commercialization.
7. Development of skills to present and sell technology-based business ideas.

MIET0001 - ECTS Integration of multidisciplinary expertise in creating new products / services with the   objective of learning a set of strategies and tools for systematic development of new products/services, in an environment of teamwork

MIET0028 - ECTS

On completion of this course, students shall know to identify the principal characteristics of Design Thinking, and differentiate the various process models and tools, by developing a creative and critical attitude about this innovation method.

 

MIET0017 - ECTS This course seeks to equip students with a set of skills that allows them elaborate and interpret the different
financial statements that are produced by the accounting, which are the basis of all economic and financial analysis,
and are part of decision-making process. It is also expected to acquaint students to financial analysis techniques that
enable them to make a company diagnosis based on financial information available.

MIET0004 - ECTS

The labour market has suffered profound changes in the last few years, therefore it now calls for professionals who can act with independence, autonomy, flexibility, creativity, commitment and who can collaborate. The strategic aim of this course unit is to spread an entrepreneur culture, by combining a set of technical and social skills, which are aimed to encourage the creation of new entrepreneurship or technological intra-entrepreneurship projects. Thus, this course unit aims to contribute to the development of an entrepreneur attitude and to make students look closely to subjects related to the entrepreneurship process, by training them and giving examples. 

MIET0027 - ECTS

The course aims at providing the basic conceptual framework in order to develop in the participants the skills that allow them to make decisions and implement actions in the field of marketing as an element of the management process of start-ups and innovation projects.

MIET0029 - ECTS

Introduce the detailed study and analysis of the negotiation process in multicultural environments (beyond the international environment): 

• Identity, categorise and understand the conflict at the origin of negotiation, and which conditions the negotiation process; 
• Identify and understand the interactions of cultural and ethical values conditioning decision-making throughout the negotiation process;
• Identify and understand the specificities of each phase of the negotiation process.

Introduce the detailed study and analysis of the ethical requirements set out in European legislation on anti-corruption and transparency and their interactions associated with decision-making in management, particularly throughout the negotiation process. 
To develop the ability to analyse different situations critically and to define and implement actions throughout the phases of the negotiation process (from preparation to follow-up of agreements). 

MIET0030 - ECTS Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
a) To understand the role played and the impact of an operations strategy in corporate competitiveness and objectives b) To understand and explain the different operations strategy frameworks
c) To review the most used strategies to improve operations performance: resources, processes and capabilities dimensions.
d) Design and operations strategy aligned with the business strategy.

MIET0019 - ECTS

To endow students with fundamental concepts of entrepreneurial Strategy development for the commercialization of a technology-based product/service.

To develop and extend the knowledge (i) on Business Models (BM) and on the relevance of its implementation in the specific reality of each business.(ii) on the reality of setting-up a Startup, understanding the major differences with an established company.

To endow students with the use of previously acquired concepts on financial evaluation of investment projects and on funding a new technology based venture.

To endow students with the capability of:

- Creating and implementing a complete, concise and well founded (i) strategic plan and (ii) BM compatible with the strategy, both adequate for a technology based venture.

- Having an holistic and integrated vision of a business venture, involving all its resources and stakeholders

- Assuming and executing the setting up of a startup based on a Business Plan with adequate financial structure.

MIET0021 - ECTS

The goal of the course is to familiarize students with the fundamentals of Marketing Research. The students should be able to design, conduct, and analyze a marketing research study, with a view to making better business decisions.

MIET0006 - ECTS

This course has as its main objective to disseminate knowledge on Innovation and Innovation Management. This will enable students to start research in the area, and secondly, provide them with the basic tools to analyze the processes of creation and innovation and its implications for management, exploring the ways in which innovation can be fostered in organizations. Students will develop skills to analyze the processes of creation and innovation and its implications for management and to explore ways through which innovation can be fostered in organizations.

MIET0020 - ECTS

 

This is a compulsory course that aims at exploring data, building hypotheses testing and multivariate statistical analysis procedures in the production of scientific knowledge and to consolidate skills for the critical evaluation of their potential and limitations. 

MIET0007 - ECTS

Develop a business project opportunity.
Identify technologies with market potential and economic value and provide an initial evaluation of the opportunity.

MIET0022 - ECTS

The main objective of the Business Law curricular unit is to make known the relevant legal framework for pursuing a corporate business plan in the area of ​​technological innovation. Minimizing the legal risks inherent to the exercise of an economic activity commonly involves the constitution of a commercial company (including a startup), being an autonomous legal structure of the founding partners with their own corporate bodies: assembly of partners, management body, body supervisory bodies, as a rule, among other optional corporate bodies. The constitution of a commercial company also organizes the power relations (social rights and obligations) between the founding partners, when there are two or more, and it is possible and advisable to formalize these power relations in the initial company contract and in parasocial agreements ( e.g., preferential rights to acquire quotas or shares; special rights to dividends; special right to reimbursement of the value of quotas or shares, in the event of liquidation of the company; limitations on the transferability of quotas and shares; anti-dilution rights of capital participation ; call and put options; drag-along right and tag-along right, among other contractual clauses). The operation of a commercial company (including a startup) in the market generally involves obtaining financing, whether from partners or, above all, from third parties, with emphasis on obtaining venture capital investment.

Attending the UC provides students with knowledge that allows them to understand the basic legal structure of companies and the relevance of legal advice in the future, with a view to preventing and anticipating the legal risk of certain actions, decisions, transactions and economic and financial operations in the pursuing a business project through a commercial company (including a startup).

MIET0024 - ECTS This course seeks to equip students with a set of skills that allows them elaborate a business plan, project a firm financial statements and interpret the valuation criteria.

MIET0031 - ECTS

To allow students to make use of the knowledge learned (in the first year of the Master programme) in preparing their dissertation plan.

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

- Understand some basic concepts of research and its methodologies,

- Identify appropriate research topics and a research problem,

- Prepare a dissertation proposal.

MIET0023 - ECTS To endow students with the ability to:

. Develop and complete the execution of a feasibility study

. Produce and defend a business plan supported by all primary and secondary sources of appropriate information.

. Perform practical business hypothesis validation experiments, applying the results of this learning

. Present the project/business to potential investors, in the appropriate form and content

. Work in a group on a specific project, to be carried out within a pre-defined deadline

MIET0032 - ECTS