Currículo

Future Studies and Innovation Strategy FSIS-MIRS

Contextos

ECTS

6.0 (para cálculo da média)

Objectivos

- Provide skills and methodologies that allow students to explore, think and act upon the Future, and in particular, offering the tools to analyse, evaluate and monitor technological changes and trends and their impacts and implications in a wide range of domains. - Present a multidisciplinary approach to Strategic Foresight and its links to strategy and innovation, including exploring specific tools that can challenge the traditional way of designing and leading innovation and strategic development processes. - Mastering a portfolio of Foresight and Innovation Tools and Methods that enhance the identification and exploration of new opportunities. - Articulate and Integrate Foresight and Innovation Methods and Techniques (Scenarios, Trend Analysis, Delphi, etc.) with Tools and Concepts of Innovation Management and Strategic Management

Programa

PART 1: STRATEGIC FORESIGHT - PRINCIPLES, CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS 1.1. Foresight: Origins, Principles and Schools of Thought • Epistemological Principles of Foresight • Schools of Foresight / Futures Studies 1.2. Basic Concepts and Methodological Tools • Basic Concepts of Strategic Foresight: Status and Function • Presentation of a Corporate & Industry Foresight Toolbox PART 2: FORESIGHT APPLIED TO ORGANIZATIONS AND TERRITORIES 2.1. Corporate and Industry Foresight • Objectives and functions of Foresight applied to Organizations and Industries • Methods and Tools of Corporate & Industry Foresight 2.2. Regional or Territorial Foresight - Distinctive elements of Territorial Foresight • Exploration and comparative analysis of international Territorial Foresight projects • Design and implementation of Territorial Foresight Projects - Exercises PART 3. TECHNOLOGICAL FORESIGHT • Objectives and potential of Technological Foresight • Technological Foresight and the Management of Technological Change • Historical evolution of Technological Foresight and Technological Assessment (TA) • Build and manage a Technological Foresight Project • Technological Foresight methodologies and tools PART 4. SCENARIO PLANNING LAB The Scenario Planning Lab offers the possibility of designing and developing a complete Scenario Planning project.

Método de Avaliação

This course is based on a system of continuous assessment of the students. Students will be evaluated based on work done during the semester and participation in classes, complemented by a final written exam/essay. The weightings of the various evaluation elements will be defined in a subsequent timing.

Carga Horária

Bibliografia

Principal

• “Foundations of Futures Studies: History, Purposes, and Knowledge: Human Science for a New Era (Vol. 1)”, Library of Congress.: Bell, W. 1997
• “The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World”, Currency Doubleday, New York.: Schwartz, Peter 1991
• “Scenarios: the Art of Strategic Conversation”, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.: van der Heijden, Kees 1996
• “Scenarios: Uncharted Waters Ahead”, Harvard Business Review, 63, No.5 (September/October): 72-89.: Wack, Pierre 1985a
• “Competitive Strategy”, MacMillan Publishing C., Inc..: Porter, M. 1980
• “From Scenario Thinking to Strategic Action”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 65, Number 1: 23-29.: Wilson, I. 2000
• “Delphi – Métodos e Aplicações”, Documento de Trabalho nº5/2007, DPP.: Alvarenga, António, Soeiro de Carvalho, Paulo, e Escária, Susana 2007
• “TF and SC: 1969–1999”, “Technological Forecasting and Social Change”, 62 (1999) 1–8, 1999: Linstone, 1999
• “Technology Roadmapping - A planning framework for evolution and revolution”. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, v. 71, n. 04, p. 5-26, May 2004.: Phaal, R.; Farrukh, C., Probert, D. 2004

Secundária

Disciplinas de Execução

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