The doctoral program has several educational objectives, materializing in activities aimed at †
developing the following skills in PhD candidates:

• Ability to understand the dynamics related to the creation and growth of businesses,
  product, process, and business model innovation, the management and organization
  of innovation processes including those linked to new technologies, the development and adoption of innovative financial instruments, as well as mastery of associated research methods;
• Ability to conceive, design, and carry out a research project to solve real problems of companies and businesses based on the most advanced scientific methodologies;
• Ability to develop original research that expands the frontier of knowledge, providing
  a contribution worthy of publication at a national or
  international scientific level;as entrepreneurship and innovation;
• Ability to critically analyze, evaluate, and synthesize new and complex ideas to be used in the study of multidimensional phenomena, such as entrepreneurship
  and innovation;
• Ability to communicate with scientific, professional, entrepreneurial, and managerial communities, as well as with public and private policymakers;
• Ability to promote methodological, social, or

  cultural advancement in academic and entrepreneurial contexts.

The program includes the acquisition of both theoretical

knowledge and appropriate qualitative and quantitative methodologies instrumental to the design and development of research
in the field of economic and social sciences.
The educational schedule foresees teaching activities carried out in collaboration among the affiliated universities,
based on their respective scientific expertise. I corsi si articolano in moduli
modules.

Each course has a faculty member responsible for designing the content and organizing the lessons,
who will define, in a syllabus, the learning expectations,
the content delivered in each module and broken down by lesson, the responsibilities of the modules that
make up the course, the assessment methods for students, as well as the supporting
readings accompanying the educational path. Modules will be developed using teaching settings that
favor active learning by PhD candidates. To this end, the teaching program will be structured around innovative approaches and techniques such as:

participatory lessons, flipped learning,
the Teal method, simulations, teamwork, project work, virtual learning environments, gamification,
classroom presentations, and mentoring.