Entrepreneurship sparringLaajuus (1 - 10 cr)

Objective

You find an appropriate way to begin as an entrepreneur, be it acquiring a company, succession in a family company, or establishing a new company.

Based on the situation analysis
-you can develop your business idea
-you know how to set up a business enterprise
-you can lead yourself and your new venture or company in its early stages or in its growth phase

Content

How to develop oneself as an entrepreneur and start up a new venture or develop a company?

Content is adjusted after clearing up the needs of a student as they relate to his/her entrepreneurial intentions, for example:
- How do you identify opportunities for a new business development for an existing one?
- How do you analyze markets and test the business concept?
- How do you establish or buy a company?
- How do you prepare for acquisition and succession planning in SME context?
- How do you network?
- How do you market?
- How do you manage profitability?
- How do you manage, service and product development?
- How do you lead and manage your company?
- How do you identify and prepare for risks related to business operations?

Qualifications

Various business connected courses are recommended. Students are required to have a business idea, a preliminary plan for taking over a family business, business buyout, or scaling up a business.

Materials

From idea to innovation
Productization and conceptualization
Commercialization in business
Innovation management in digital age
IPR – Immaterial rights and product development
Financing and risk management of a business
Societal and social entrepreneurship
Social and health care legislation

Accomplishment methods

Students can
-use professional vocabulary systematically.
-look for information in the key information sources of the field.
-identify interrelated tasks.
-work together with customers, users and target groups.
-use the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field.
-work as team members in a goal-oriented way
-justify their actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field.