Entrepreneurship (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Schedule

The schedule will be updated here:
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Period 3: Thursdays 10.00-13.45 room 2009
Period 4: Thursdays 10.00-13.45 room 1008
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15.11.2018 planned schedule - (changes are possible, check the updated schedule above)
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Theme 1: Entrepreneurial competencies
24.1.
• Introduction to course contents, tasks, and assessment
• forming teams (8) and PBL groups (3)
• opening session PBL 1.
Before next class
• Keep a diary of business ideas
• Barringer’s book.
31.1.
• Information search training / Saila Veijalainen
• entrepreneurial process, behaviour & lifecycle
• business idea brainstorming.
4.2.
• DEADLINE: Assignment 1 at 23.59
7.2.
• 10.00: PBL 1 closing session - PBL group 1
• 11.30: PBL 1 closing session - PBL group 2.
14.2.
• 10.00: PBL 1 closing session - PBL group 3.
week number 8 (18.-24.2.2018): no school
Theme 2: Business Idea
Before next class
• Osterwalder’s book !
28.2.
• Introduction to business model canvas (BMC)
7.3.
• Opening session PBL 2
• BMC workshop 1.
14.3.
• BMC workshop 2 (assignment 2).
18.3.
• DEADLINE: Assignment 2 at 23.59.
week number 12 (18.-24.3.2018): no school
28.3.
• 10.00: PBL 2 closing session - PBL group 1
• 11.30: PBL 2 closing session - PBL group 2
4.4.
• 10.00: PBL 2 closing session - PBL group 3
• 11.30: opening session PBL 3.
Theme 3 Market potential assessment
11.4.
• Market potential assessment
17.4.
• DEADLINE: assignment 3 at 08.00 (am)
18.4.
• Assignment 3 (poster walk presentations)
Theme 4 Communication and networking
25.4.
• 10.00: PBL 3 closing session - PBL group 1
• 11.30: PBL 3 closing session - PBL group 2.
2.5.
• 10.00: PBL 3 closing session - PBL group 3.
• 11.30: Assignment 4: Pitch deck
7.5.
• DEADLINE: Assignment 4 at 23.59
9.5.
• Assignment 4: (Pitch deck and presentation – pitching your business idea).

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

If you have acquired the required competence in previous work tasks, recreational activities or on another course, you can show the competence with a demonstration and progress faster through your studies. More information and instructions for RPL are available at MyNet.

Materials

Learning materials:
• Osterwalder, A., & Pigneur, Y. (2010). Business model generation: A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
• Barringer, B. R. & Ireland, R.D. (2012). Entrepreneurship: Successfully launching new ventures (4th, glob. ed.). Harlow, Essex: Pearson.
• Driver, M. (2012). An Interview with Michael Porter: Social Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Capitalism. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 11(3), p. 421.
• Material in Moodle
• Additional material: Read, S., Sarasvathy, S., Dew, N., Wiltbank, R. (2017). Effectual entrepreneurship (Second edition.). Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.

Teaching methods and instruction

independent study
individual tasks
group tasks
teamwork
lectures

Working life connections

Interviews with entrepreneurs provide insight to the life of entrepreneurs in Finland and abroad.

Exam dates and re-exam possibilities

No test.

Internationality

Students investigate and compare entrepreneurship in different cultures.

Completion alternatives

Recognising and validating prior learning (RPL) 
If you have acquired the required competence in previous work tasks, recreational activities or on another course, you can show the competence with a demonstration and progress faster through your studies. More information and instructions for RPL are available at MyNet.

Learning assignments

Learning assignments and competence assessment
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• PBL 1-3 = 50%
• Assignment 1: Entrepreneurial competencies = pass/fail
• Assignment 2: Business model = 20%
• Assignment 3: Market potential assessment = 15%
• Assignment 4: Communication and networking =15%
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The total grade of the course is will be in MyNet. Assignments, PBL’s grades and teacher feedback are in Moodle.
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All assignments and PBL sessions must be completed.
• PBL - If absent for a valid reason, submit a PBL absence memo or your own assignment within one week from the contact session. Work submitted later will be graded max 1.
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• Assignment 1: Entrepreneur’s test & Strengths & Personal SWOT
o The purpose is to assess your current level of entrepreneurial way of working and thinking (entrepreneurial behaviour).
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• Assignment 2: Business model canvas & MVP of your team's idea. Criteria: business model’s realism, logical flow, innovativeness of the business model and MVP, and use of theory for both.
o The purpose is to assess your understanding of the building blocks of the business model, your ability to apply the knowledge to a business idea and create a minimum viable product out of your idea.
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• Assignment 3: Market potential assessment - poster walk presentation of your team’s idea’s market potential.
o The purpose is to assess your understanding of how to create an initial market study.
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• Assignment 4: Pitch deck and presentation – pithing your business idea (customer problem, solution, what's in it for the investor)
o The purpose is to assess your ability to effectively tell about your business idea to your stakeholders.

Assessment methods

Learning assignments and competence assessment
• PBL 1-3 = 50%
• Assignment 1: Entrepreneurial competencies = pass/fail
• Assignment 2: Business model = 20%
• Assignment 3: Market potential assessment = 15%
• Assignment 4: Communication and networking =15%