The doctorate has several training objectives which are substantiated by activities aimed at developing the following skills in doctoral students: 

• Ability to understand the dynamics related to the creation and growth of companies, innovation of products, processes and business models, management and organization of innovation processes also related to new technologies, development and adoption of innovative finance tools and a mastery of the associated research methods;
• Ability to conceive, design, and carry out a research project, in order to solve the real problems
  of enterprises and companies on the basis of the most advanced scientific methodologies;
• Ability to develop original research that broadens the frontier of knowledge, providing a
  contribution that may merit the rank of scientific publication at national or international level;
• Ability to critically analyze, evaluate and synthesize new and complex ideas that can be used in the examination of multidimensional phenomena, such as entrepreneurship and innovation;
• Ability to communicate with the scientific, professional, entrepreneurial and managerial communities as well as with public and private policy makers;
• Ability to promote, in academic and entrepreneurial contexts, methodological, social or cultural advancement.

The programme of activities 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 training program includes educational activities carried out in collaboration between the
partner universities on the basis of their respective scientific expertise. The courses are divided into teaching modules.
Each course includes a teacher responsible for the design of the contents and the organization of
the lessons who will define, in a syllabus, the learning expectations, the contents provided in each
module and divided by lesson, the responsibilities of the modules that make up the course, the methods of evaluation of the learners, as well as the readings of support and accompaniment to the training course. The modules will be developed according to didactic settings that favor the active learning of the PhD students. For this purpose, the didactic programming will be based on
innovative approaches and techniques such as: participatory lessons, flipped learning, Teal method, simulations, teamwork, project work, virtual learning environment, gamification,
presentations and exhibitions in the classroom, mentoring.