Postgraduate Diploma in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Policies
Program Overview
Diploma in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Policies
Program Overview
The Diploma in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Policies is designed for professionals interested in participating in the design and implementation of instruments and policies that promote innovation and entrepreneurship in society. These professionals can come from public institutions, but also from research centers, academia, and private institutions.
Program Objective
The diploma aims to provide students with the necessary tools to analyze, criticize, design, and implement support instruments for innovation and entrepreneurship activities. The program develops skills for formulating initiatives that enhance the country's innovative and entrepreneurial capacity through the analysis of real policy cases and guest lectures.
Academic Director
The Academic Director of the program is Roberto Álvarez, Ph.D. in Management from the Anderson School of Business, UCLA. He is the Director of the School of Economics and Administration and a Professor at the Department of Economics. Dr. Álvarez has also worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and as a Senior Economist at the Central Bank of Chile.
Program Structure
The program consists of two main courses:
Análisis Económico de Políticas de Emprendimiento (March to June)
- Entrepreneurs and the economic vision
- Entrepreneurship and the administrative vision
- Early financing: angels and seed capital
- Venture capital
- Business models and franchises
- Barriers to entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship and gender
- International entrepreneurship
- Microentrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship policies
Análisis Económico de Políticas de Innovación (June to October)
- Innovation and technological change from an economic perspective
- Technological-based growth models
- Knowledge in production and Schumpeterian theory
- Technological revolutions, innovation, and economic development
- Sustainable development and technological innovation
- Technological innovation and the patent system
- Innovation and employment
- Innovation and information flows
- Innovation and market competition
- National innovation system
- Focus on science and industry
Institutions
The program is affiliated with the following institutions:
- Universidad de Chile
- FEN DECON
- Microdatos