Entrepreneurship and Business Operations - Opinto-opas

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

o act entrepreneurially,
o understand the key concepts of entrepreneurship and business,
o describe the ways of becoming an entrepreneur, the opportunities, forms of entrepreneurship, and types of companies,
o assess entrepreneurship and networks from an individual's perspective,
o utilize the knowledge base and the BMC model when describing and evaluating a business, considering responsibility.

o Key concepts of entrepreneurship and business
o Entrepreneurship in Finland
o Entrepreneurial competence
o Opportunities in entrepreneurship
o Responsibility in business
o Business model, Business Model Canvas

Assessment Criteria - Grade 1
Able to
o take responsibility for their tasks
o use key concepts of entrepreneurship, business, and sustainability

Assessment Criteria - Grade 3
In addition to the previous, able to
o assess their own opportunities to act as an entrepreneur
o evaluate business opportunities and the process of becoming an entrepreneur
o identify and describe their own networks
o understand the knowledge base of entrepreneurship and business and its connections to sustainability

Assessment Criteria - Grade 5
In addition to the previous, able to
o analyze the challenges and opportunities of entrepreneurship
o analyze business opportunities and models

When the implementation type of the course is contact, online or blended it is required that the student is present during those teaching hours that are marked in the study schedule. If you are absent more than 25 %, your grade will be lowered by one. If you are absent more than 50 %, the course is failed.

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.

15.01.2024 - 15.03.2024

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%

02.01.2024 - 12.01.2024

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
IBE2PA3

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 - 45

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

0.00 cr

H-5