ΟΔΗΓΟΣ ΕΙΣΑΚΤΕΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΟΕΤΩΝ 2025

COURSE OUTLINE



(1) General

School:Social Sciences
Academic Unit:Geography
Level of studies:Undergraduate
Course Code:GEO 331Semester:E
Course Title:Development and Planning of Innovation Spaces
Independent Teaching ActivitiesWeekly Teaching HoursCredits
Lecture3
Course total5
Course Type:Required Elective
Prerequisite Courses:None
Language of Instruction and ExaminationsGreek
Is the course offered to Erasmus students:No
Course Website (Url):https://geography.aegean.gr/pps/index_en.php?content=0&lesson=331


(2) Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Attending the course students will be in a position to conceptualize and analyze the role of innovation in contemporary socio-economies by focusing on the spatiality of advanced technologies and innovative firms and entrepreneurship

General Competences

  1. Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology

  2. Team work

  3. Criticism and self-criticism

  4. Production of free, creative and inductive thinking


(3) Syllabus

  • The rise of the informational society
  • Fordist crisis, restructuring and flexible accumulatio
  • Informational and IT oriented capitalist structures
  • The learning firm and the learning region
  • Knowledge and innovation, different types of innovation and the spatiality of knowledge production
  • Innovation, external economies and the role of socio-spatial agglomerations
  • Measuring regional innovation
  • Spaces of innovation

(4) Teaching and Learning Methods - Evaluation

Delivery:
face-to-face
Use of Information and Communication Technology:
 Digital means of teaching and presentation
Teaching Methods:
ActivitySemester workload
Lecture39
Project35
Performance evaluation/Exams3
Non-supervised study50
Course total127
Student Performance Evaluation
The aggregate result of the evaluation scores for i) seminar presentations during the semester (25%) and ii) written final  exams (75%)


(5) Attached Bibliography

  1. Komninos N.(1998) The Innovative Region/Η Καινοτόμος Περιφέρεια. Bilingual edition, Athens: Gutenberg.