Economics of Innovation (Campus Rieti)

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide students with the managerial tools needed to construct, analysis and evaluation of the Business Plan. Therefore, will be investigated the main problems of business management, both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Educational objectives

The course provides the tools to understand the dynamics of innovation and product technologies for business competitiveness, particularly concerning production chains.
SUMMARY OF TOPICS AND OBJECTIVES
1) Natural Resources, Reserves and Raw Materials: Natural Assets and Natural Resources; Classification of Natural Resources; Raw Materials, Resource Scarcity and the Need for Sustainable Development
2) Technologies: new technologies and their economic, social and environmental impact; applications of new technologies to production processes; technology and organization of production: from Taylorism to Fordism to Toyotism; organizational models.
3) Technological innovation: the origins of technological innovation; sources of innovation; forms and patterns of innovation; technological cycles; strategic orientation to innovation.
4) Quality and certifications: evolution of the quality concept; Iso certifications and the certification process.
5) Production chains: definition of the production chain; types of production chains; from control to the management of production chains; technological innovation in production chains

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES.
1) Knowledge and understanding skills.
Knowledge of the impact of innovation on production processes and new technologies with particular reference to production chains
2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding.
Learning the tools needed to properly and efficiently implement innovation tools in production chains in light of new technologies.
3) Autonomy of judgment.
Knowing how to identify new technologies and the effects of innovation in processes, especially manufacturing processes.
4) Communication skills.
Ability to transfer acquired knowledge and mastery of the subject matter.
5) Learning skills.
Ability to transfer acquired knowledge through the application of case studies.

Educational objectives

The Course intends to provide students with a complete and up to date preparation, also in an evolutionary perspective, on the fundamental Institutions of Corporate Tax Law.
The academic approach is particularly focused on the practical profiles of the analyzed Institutions, on literature and jurisprudential orientations, as well as on most recent normative modifications.

At the end of the course:
1. Knowledge and understanding
Students must demonstrate to have acquired a basic knowledge in the area of employment relationships, both of an individual and a collective nature.
2. Capacity to apply knowledge and understanding
Students must demonstrate a capacity to apply the information learned to practical cases.
3. Autonomous judgment
Students must demonstrate to have accrued legally sound ideas.
4. Communication skills
Students must demonstrate to have accrued a capacity to argue with a proper legal language.
5. Learning skills
Students must demonstrate to have developed a capacity to understand the subject of Corporate Tax Law, its evolution, and its main interpretative problems".

Educational objectives

Knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to assess the concept of sustainability applied to production processes by means of the exploitation of the concept of the four R: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover.
Applying knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to deepen the concept of technology innovation applied to production in a framework of circular economy and care for the surrounding environment. Moreover, they will be able to understand the process of company sustainable digitization as a best practice to be applied to business processes.
Making judgement: students will develop an attitude that will allow them to understand the effects of circular economy on production by means of the exploitation of new technologies for sustainability applied to economic processes.
Communication Skills: Students will develop the ability to evaluate sustainable technologies applied to production.
Learning Skills: Students will be able to have a basic background in production that will lead them towards their learning path and will give them the ability to easily deal with all the topics of the teaching in the economic-business field.

Educational objectives

The course aims to train soft skills such as flexibility and adaptation, working independently and in groups, problem-solving, advanced use of digital and statistical tools, and communication skills. The aim is to enable students to interface and relate to the corporate world in the marked interdisciplinary nature that allows them to observe and discuss a business problem by integrating different perspectives, acquiring the ability to draw on different tools and knowledge about the need for problem-solving.
SUMMARY OF TOPICS AND OBJECTIVES
1) Context definition and target market: tools and analysis models for defining the internal and external environment, the definition of resources needed to achieve objectives; strategic analysis of competitors and customers
2) Marketing in action: tools and models for defining product/service communication and promotion strategies
3) Innovation and business plan: analysis tools related to the feasibility of the innovative idea, potential market analysis, costs and revenues.

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES.
1) Knowledge and understanding skills.
To know the primary analysis tools required for solving business problems, following a multidisciplinary approach.
2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding.
Learning the tools needed to implement analysis tools correctly and efficiently.
3) Autonomy of judgment.
Knowing which primary analysis tools to apply to specific case studies.
4) Communication skills.
Ability to transfer acquired knowledge and mastery of the subject matter.
5) Learning skills.
Ability to transfer acquired knowledge through the application of case studies.