Entrepreneurship and Business Operations - Study guide

After having completed this course or attained an equivalent competence level, the student can:

- act entrepreneurially alone and in multicultural groups,
- describe ways of becoming an entrepreneur, entrepreneurship modes and company forms,
- analyze entrepreneurship from perspectives of individual, organization and operating environment,
- utilize the knowledge base, taking into account sustainability,
- describe the business using BMC as a tool,
- evaluate various business opportunities as well as
- analyze own and company networks.

Entrepreneurship in society
Entrepreneuship opportunities
Entrepreneur's networks
Becoming an entrepreneur
Me and entrepreneurship
Operating environment and economic models
Strategy and sustainability
Business model

Student
- participates in tasks
- can describe entrepreneurship
- is familiar with basic theories of business

In addition to the previous part, students
- can evaluate their own potential as entrepreneurs
- can evaluate business opportunities, ways of becoming an entrepreneur and company forms
- can identify and create own network and
- are well acquainted with the knowledge base of business and the connections between sustainable development and business.

In addition to the previous part
- evaluate the challenges and opportunities of entrepreneurship and
- analyze and evaluate business opportunities, strategic choices and business models.

The instruction will be offered both on Campus and online. The learning methods will include lectures, guest lectures, self-studies, team work and individual work in class, working with literature sources, practice-oriented activities, research and development activities.

The students will work with a variety of sources, including media sources, peer-reviewed academic articles, and text books. The students will contribute to the choice of the sources, based on the topics they choose for their course assignments.

The course will include guest lecturers and require students to maintain connections with the worklife through their course work.

Pasila Campus

The course offers submission and assessment time-lines which need to be respected. A certain flexibility can be accepted based on students' situations. The course does not have an exam.

English

The instruction language is English, the course material will align with global diversity of entrepreneurship contexts, The class is an international class, with team work that will enable cross-cultural communication.

22.08.2022 - 16.12.2022

Assignment 1 Business models and operations - teamwork; presentation 25% Assignment 2 Entrepreneurship today - teamwork; literature review, written report 25% Assignment 3 Business idea proposal - individual work, recorded video presentation 50%

15.08.2022 - 19.08.2022

The classes will take place on Wednesdays, 11:00-13:45. The breaks and pauses will be agreed at each calss with the students.
The first two sessions, Wednesday August 24 and August 31 are planned as online sessions (Zoom). Contact sessions are nevertheless plamnned for most of the course time-line. The firs contact session on Campus is scheduled for September 7.

CONTACT
IBE1PA1

Should the student be entitled to and requesting an alternative implementation, such requests need to be forwarded to the instructor within one week of the course's starting day.

Ivan Berazhny

15 - 40

The assessment (Assignment 1, 2, 3) will constitute the course's assessment. Grade scale 1-5. Each assignment will follow and pre-agreed assessment model, discussed with the students in the beginning of the course.

INTBBA International Business

H-5