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Unit for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

By focusing on innovation processes, entrepreneurship, and their social and economic consequences, the unit aims to explain and promote the relationship between innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Unit for Innovation and Entrepreneurship conducts research and education in the fields of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management of Intellectual Assets.

The subject area deals with innovation processes with a focus on entrepreneurship and intellectual assets. More specifically, it focuses on the different determinants of innovation processes, the actors involved, and the related social and economic consequences.

The research on innovation and entrepreneurship aims to explain the correlation between innovation and entrepreneurship in a societal and organisational perspective, as well as to identify methods and strategies to promote these. In relation to this, effects on individuals, organisations, businesses, institutions, and knowledge due to innovation-related societal changes are analysed.

The unit offers single-subject courses at Bachelor´s level, two Master´s programmes, and doctoral education.