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Understanding private consultants’ involvement in technology transfer – a case ...
Soares, João; Romero, Fernando; Nunes, Manuel Lopes; Braga, A. C.Purpose: In the realm of innovation systems and technology transfer (TT), the emergence of open innovation and complex market dynamics has amplified innovation intermediaries’ prominence of their role and involvement in TT projects. This study delves into private consultants’ involvement in TT projects, namely in what got them involved by the project’s key stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach: An iterative...
Understanding the roles of private consultants as innovation intermediaries in ...
Soares, João Carlos Cordeiro; Romero, Fernando; Nunes, Manuel LopesThe fields of innovation systems and technology transfer (TT) have seen growing interest in recent years, especially in the context of open innovation. Private consultants, play a vital role in mediating and facilitating interactions among various stakeholders in the innovation process. However, the specific roles of private consultants as innovation intermediaries have received limited attention in the literat...
PBL in a University-Business cooperation in Engineering and Operations Manageme...
Alves, Anabela Carvalho; Costa, Nélson Bruno Martins Marques da; Nunes, Manuel Lopes; Sousa, Rui M.; Lima, Rui M.; Dinis-Carvalho, JoséThe active learning methodology Project Based Learning (PBL) has as main objectives: to involve and motivate students to learn actively while solving an open-ended problem, promoting their creativity, and stimulating their critical thinking Students are organized in teams and are challenged to solve real-world problems during a semester integrating contents from all or some of the courses, involving or not an e...
A structural equations approach applied to social innovation
Cunha, Jorge; Ferreira, Carla Cristina; Vasconcelos, Claúdio; Araújo, Maria Madalena Teixeira de; Nunes, Manuel Lopes; Ferreira, Paula VarandasSocial innovation is a topic that has rapidly gained visibility during the last decades, where public organizations, private companies, and community groups are interested in developing more efficient and effective solutions to important societal challenges, such as poverty, demographic change, climate change, and unemployment. The University has been recognized for a long-time as a place of learning and academ...
The mediating role of entrepreneurial intention between creativity and social i...
Cunha, Jorge; Ferreira, Carla; Araújo, Maria Madalena Teixeira de; Nunes, Manuel LopesPurpose This paper aims to investigate the relationship between creativity, entrepreneurial intention and social innovation tendency within academic community members (namely, students and professors/researchers). Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was administered to nearly 300 students and professors/researchers in Portuguese higher education institutions, whereupon a mediation analysis was performed...
Empowering master students to pull what they want to learn
Alves, Anabela Carvalho; Nunes, Manuel Lopes; Braga, A. C.This generation of students is a generation that needs a meaningful education. This implies that students must believe that the contents they are learning has a purpose. The best way to do this is by allowing them to pull what they want to learn. However, this is difficult to achieve because the contents of the course is pre-determined by the teachers in a well-defined curricular plan. Still, the authors of thi...
Social innovation projects link to sustainable development goals: case of Portugal
Cunha, Jorge; Ferreira, Carla; Araújo, Maria Madalena Teixeira de; Nunes, Manuel Lopes; Ferreira, Paula VarandasRecent literature on social innovation highlights its conceptual ambiguity and fragmentation. According to this context, this paper explores how social innovation can contribute to the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs). Using a case study approach, we apply a mixed research methodology comprising a content analysis followed by multiple correspondence analysis. We examine 209 social innovation ...
Understanding the linkage between social innovation and sustainable development...
Cunha, Jorge; Ferreira, C.; Araújo, Maria Madalena Teixeira de; Nunes, Manuel Lopes; Ferreira, Paula VarandasRecent literature on social innovation highlights its conceptual ambiguity and fragmentation. Addressing this call, this paper examines how social innovation initiatives or projects fit in the sustainable development goals and in what way empowers citizens and communities towards serving their needs. Thus, 210 cases studies were analyzed across three domains in which social innovation can be understood: content...
Innovation and technology transfer: a framework for clustering intermediation r...
Soares, João; Romero, Fernando; Nunes, Manuel LopesIntermediation has become a key role in the complex realm of technology transfer projects. In innovation and technology transfer literature the number of mentions on intermediaries and their involvement in the process haveexpanded, which has triggered a surge in specific literature on the intermediation roles. Several authors have not only proposed new intermediation roles but also complemented and clarified pr...
Turning knowledge into business ideas: Insights from the IdeaLab business accel...
Moura, Helena; Catarino, Marta; Afonso, Paulo; Nunes, Manuel LopesThe IdeaLab is a laboratory for accelerating business ideas. It results from a pioneering initiative in Portuguese universities, which started in 2009. So far, there have been 17 editions, in which 255 ideas from 570 entrepreneurs have been developed. Of these ideas, more than forty have materialized into companies. The IdeaLab enables participants to (1) enhance the business potential of their ideas and (2) de...