Sara ProençaInstituto Politécnico de Coimbra | IPC · Departamento de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Sara Proença
PhD Economics
Director @ INOPOL Entrepreneurship Academy | Polytechnic of Coimbra
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Introduction
Sara Proença is associate professor at Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC), Portugal. Teaching experience in the fields of entrepreneurship, business management, project analysis, and economics, in both first and second-cycle. Currently, she is Director of INOPOL Entrepreneurship Academy. She was Pro-President of IPC for innovation and entrepreneurship (2019-21). Her academic background is in Economics, with specialization in Energy-Environment Economics (PhD) and Applied Economics (M.Sc).
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October 2013 - present
Position
- Professor (Associate)
Description
- Main fields of teaching: economics, management and entrepreneurship. Supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate projects and dissertations.
September 2003 - September 2013
September 2003 - October 2019
Education
January 2007 - October 2013
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Publications (45)
The process of a country's economic growth and development is a very complex phenomenon, influenced by numerous factors, which has attracted the attention of researchers and policymakers over time. Several studies highlight the important role of entrepreneurship on economic growth, by introducing innovative technologies, creating new products, prom...
Today's global challenges require new thinking, new tools, and new approaches able to drive collaborative work and creation of value for all stakeholders. The co-creation of innovation between academia and organizations plays an important role in this context. The purpose of this paper is to explore the impacts of the implementation of co-creation...
Demola model aims to apply a methodology of co-creation processes, based on cooperation systems, having as objective applying science, technology and innovation policies in personal, educational and business contexts. Considering that the co-creation method is based on a joint initiative, in which providers and beneficiaries create value together,...
Sustainable entrepreneurship links entrepreneurial activities to the achievement of sustainable development in its three dimensions: economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental protection. This paper aims to explain the process of sustainable entrepreneurship, by providing empirical evidence on the interconnections between entrepreneurial...
Sustainable entrepreneurship links entrepreneurial activities to the achievement of sustainable development in its three dimensions: economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental protection. This paper aims to explain the process of sustainable entrepreneurship, by providing empirical evidence on the interconnections between entrepreneurial...
The aim of this study is to analyze the circular interconnections between recycling, renewable energy and economic development. A multi-equation system is employed, where recycling and renewable energy (among other growth-inducing factors) are assumed to be important for promoting sustainable development (as provided by the Human Development Index)...
This paper explores the driving forces behind household waste generation in the Portuguese municipalities. The focus of the analysis is to empirically test the validity of the waste Kuznets curve (wKc) hypothesis, which postulates an inverted U-shaped relationship between waste generation and economic activity. Panel data is collected for 307 munic...
Waste management and recycling are fundamental issues for policy makers to protect the environment. Although these topics have been broadly studied at country-level, studies addressing sub-national units are still limited. This research aims to contribute to this field by analyzing the waste generation and recycling processes across the Portuguese...
This paper explores the driving forces behind household’s waste generation among the Portuguese municipalities. The focus of the analysis is to empirically test the validity of the waste Kuznets curve (wKc) hypothesis, which postulates an inverted U-shaped relationship between waste generation and economic activity. A panel data is collected for 30...
In the current debate about the cost-effectiveness of the EU climate and energy policy, the coexistence of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction and renewable energy targets, as well as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), have been subject to some criticism. In this paper we explore the interactions between EU climate and renewable energy tar...
Renewable energy promotion has been one of the key driving forces of the world’s climate change mitigation strategy. Policymakers have argued that the transition towards a low-carbon energy system has sound economic and social reasoning, since generates economic growth and employment. This central premise has not, however, been consensual in litera...
Renewable energy promotion has been one of the key driving forces of the world's climate change mitigation strategy. Policymakers have argued that the transition towards a low-carbon energy system has sound economic and social reasoning, since generates economic growth and employment. This central premise has not, however, been consensual in litera...
Although the relationship between renewable energy and economic performance has attracted the interest of researchers in recent years, most of the analysis has focused on economic growth, which does not reflect the quality of standards of living. We employ a different approach measuring the impact of renewable energy consumption on the Human Develo...
The aim of this study is to analyse the circular linkages between recycling and economic development, where renewable energy plays an additional role in this process. We use a two-equation model, which characterizes a cumulative causation process with feedback effects, where recycling (among other growth inducing factors) is assumed to be important...
This paper proposes a new methodological framework to assess in a holistic approach the sustainability of energy scenarios. It combines endogenous modelling outcomes, from the hybrid technological-economic modelling platform HYBTEP, with external indicators to evaluate the environmental, economic and social performance of distinct power sector scen...
O Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) é considerado o maior estudo contínuo sobre empreendedorismo a nível mundial, envolvendo uma avaliação periódica da atividade, atitudes e aspirações empreendedoras, assim como das condições que promovem ou limitam as dinâmicas de empreendedorismo. Neste contexto, este capítulo tem como principal objetivo apre...
Pretende-se neste capítulo final efetuar uma discussão e conclusão dos resultados apurados através das entrevistas efetuadas à gestão de topo e aos coordenadores do projeto Poliempreende/PIN nas Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) Politécnico participantes. Para o efeito, ao longo do capítulo, ancoramos a nossa discussão não só ao guião da entrev...
O empreendedorismo é amplamente reconhecido como motor de crescimento económico, ao contribuir para estimular a inovação, para o aumento da competitividade, para a criação de emprego, assim como para a aceleração de mudanças estruturais na economia e na sociedade. Sendo o empreendedor a força motriz deste processo, é fundamental compreender a forma...
A predição das intenções dos utilizadores, através de modelos vocacionados para o comportamento humano em geral, tem sido amplamente investigada no âmbito de comportamentos específicos, como sejam a aceitação da tecnologia em sistemas da informação. O Modelo de Aceitação da Tecnologia (Technology Acceptance Model – TAM) tem sido aplicado e validado...
A promoção da educação para o empreendedorismo constitui uma prioridade estratégica em matéria de políticas de ensino e formação na União Europeia, sendo reconhecida como um instrumento capaz de contribuir para estimular a inovação, a produtividade e a competitividade e para prevenir o desemprego, condições fundamentais para a promoção de um cresci...
Nature conservation, the negative impacts on the environment and the benefits for local communities are increasingly common concerns of various types of tourism. Within this context, the present article aims to design a travel program in the territory of Vale do Côa and Alto Douro, which complies with the general principles of Ecotourism. The metho...
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The European Union (EU) has long been at the forefront of international efforts to tackle climate change. The challenge becomes designing the most cost-eDective policy mix, capable of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the lowest cost to the economy. In this paper, an integrated CGE modelling approach is applied to explore the cos...
A promoção da educação para o empreendedorismo constitui uma prioridade estratégica em
matéria de políticas de ensino e formação na União Europeia, sendo reconhecida como um
instrumento capaz de contribuir para estimular a inovação, a produtividade e a competitividade
e para prevenir o desemprego, condições fundamentais para a promoção de um cresci...
A major challenge facing policy makers in climate policy design is how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the lowest cost to the economy. The interactions of climate change policies with the tax system become relevant in this context. This paper investigates these interactions, by analyzing the impacts, both at the macroeconomic and sectoral lev...
Energy is a critical factor in promoting economic growth, in achieving a less dependent and more competitive economy and in enabling the transition to a sustainable low carbon society. Integrated hybrid economy-energy-environment (E3) models, which combine the technological foundation of bottom-up models with the behavioural realism of top-down gen...
The promotion of renewable energy sources (RES) has been applied by policy makers to mitigate climate change and boost economic growth and employment. However, these positive impacts of RES deployment are controversial as some studies indicate that such positive effects may not occur. This study contributes to this discussion by investigating the i...
This paper evaluates the impacts on Portugal of complying with carbon emissions and renewable energy commitments under the EU Climate and Energy Package. Insights are gained into how targets interact with each other, on what are the most efficient and cost-effective policies, and on how alternative pathways affect the extent of policy-induced effec...
Entrepreneurship Good Practice Case Study
Climate change mitigation and the imperative of a new sustainable energy paradigm are among the greatest challenges facing the world today, and they are high on the priority list of policy makers as well as within the scientific community. In this context significant efforts are being made in the design and implementation of energy and carbon mitig...
In the fight against climate change, the EU launched the Climate and Energy Package in 2009, with unilateral binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction and renewable energy promotion targets to be achieved by 2020. As Portugal is subject to the European regulations it is required to comply with country specific energy-climate targets. In this paper...
Feed-in tariffs have been the main policy instrument applied in Portugal for the promotion of electricity produced from renewable energy sources under the EU Directives on energy and climate regulation. In this paper, we provide an empirical impact assessment of the economic and environmental effects of Portugal's FITs policy to promote RES-E gener...
Portugal, as an EU Member State, is subject to the EU climate-energy policy regulation and
therefore is required to comply with country-specific emission targets to be reached by 2020, as
defined in the EU 2020 Climate and Energy Package. In this paper we make use of the Hybrid
Bottom-up General Equilibrium Model (HyBGEM) to quantify the economic i...
This paper examines the importance of tourism as a conditioning factor for improving the host population's standard of living. In so doing, the well-known conditional convergence approach of Barro and Sala-i-Martin is used to test for convergence in per capita income among four Southern European countries (Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain), each w...
The role of tourism is of vital economic importance, particularly for small countries with a privileged geographical location
and favourable weather conditions. This paper examines the importance of tourism as a conditioning factor for higher regional
growth in Portugal by employing the conditional convergence hypothesis of Barro and Sala-i-Martin,...
The tourism activity in Portugal is responsible for about 8% of the national product and employs 10% of the total labour force. In addition, the receipts from tourism contribute substantially in financing the current account deficit of the balance of payments in this
country. These are convincing arguments to justify the analysis of the determinant...
The role of tourism gains fundamental importance especially for small countries with privilege geographical location and favourable weather conditions. This paper examines the importance of tourism as a conditioning factor for higher regional growth in Portugal by employing a convergence approach of the Barro and Sala-i-Martin type. The panel data...
Energy/climate change is currently acknowledged by policy makers and the scientific community as one of the major global issues of the worldwide policy agenda. This paper aims to contribute to the development of a consistent methodology for energy policy analysis, to assist, with decrease uncertainty, policy makers on the design and promotion of co...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the importance of the tourism activity as a conditioning factor in improving the population's standards of living. In doing so, the well known conditional convergence approach of the Barro and Sala-i-Martin type is used to test for convergence in per capita income among four Southern European countries (Greec...
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The journal "Environment and Development Economics" is not on the list available. How to proceed to add?
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Projects
Projects (4)
O Inov C 2020 visa projetar a região Centro enquanto referência nacional na criação de novos produtos e serviços resultantes de atividades de I&D. Este programa quer reforçar o Ecossistema de Inovação implementado como uma estrutura aberta e inclusiva, incorporando uma oferta completa de recursos, infraestruturas e dinâmicas, com apostas transversais e sectorialmente orientadas para as necessidades específicas de cada projeto inovador e empreendedor.
Promover o desenvolvimento de competências empreendedoras de vocação empresarial.
Development of effective SOC-Model for university-enterprise partnership and piloting in RF and Georgia HEIs.
Creating a virtual international spin-off network.
