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ØKB2117 Entrepreneurship

Course description for academic year 2020/2021

Contents and structure

Introduction to entrepreneurship with focus on business-idea development, execution strategy and the preparation of a good business description in form of a business plan. Focus on sustainable entrepreneurship.

Learning Outcome

Knowledge

The student:

  • Can account for knowledge about business ideas, the value of customers, markets, the establishment process, entrepreneurial sales work, marketing, and financing of start-ups.
  • Understands the importance of and the connection between customer-value and product-/service solutions as the basis for new enterprises.

Skills

 The student:

  • Can formulate a business idea with an accompanying business model and have knowledge about implementing these.
  • Has further developed an ability to formulate and present entrepreneurial ideas and have gained analytical skills connected to entrepreneurship.

General competence

The student:

  • Can use a critical analytical ability to examine the role and the contribution of entrepreneurial team-members in start-ups, small- and medium sized enterprises in different contexts.
  • Knows the purpose of and the logic behind a business description in form of a business plan and can prepare one.
  • Can relate entrepreneurship to UNs sustainable development goals - SDGs

Entry requirements

None

Recommended previous knowledge

None

Teaching methods

The teaching is based on lectures and group work, with guidance and milestone-based development. A business plan will be developed and presented.

Compulsory learning activities

The students must create a business idea and develop this by working out a business plan.

Assessment

Project, 100%

Grade Scale A-F

Examination support material

All printed and written study aids and material may be used for the student-project.

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