As innovation is essential for the competitiveness of enterprises and economic development there is a question which has been raised with some insistence: Do teaching practices make a difference to innovation and entrepreneurship in the work place? Experts were contacted for their views. They say yes, as long as the teaching method is adequate. So, in the USA, a naturally innovative society, a new concept of integrated teaching was developed - “hands-on” to increase innovation ever more in North America. This concept proved also to be successful in a non-innovative society as is demonstrated by the case of MIETE (a partnership between FEUP and FEP, University of Porto) in Portugal.
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Oliveira, M., Ferreira, J.J.P., Barandas, H. (2008). Innovation And Entrepreneurship: What Professors From Leading Universities Say?. In: Azevedo, A. (eds) Innovation in Manufacturing Networks. BASYS 2008. IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 266. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09492-2_38
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