Business growth competenceLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You understand the meaning of funding and support services for growing companies.
You know how to use the creativity of innovative business culture in solving complex problems through critical thinking.
You can assess what role companies’ socially sustainable and networked growth plays in business operations.
You can identify models for growth companies’ international activities.

Content

How can funding and support services be used to support growth companies in achieving their targets? What funding options are there for growth companies? What should growth companies pay attention to in planning their funding?
What is the role of innovative business culture in companies?
How is the creativity and problem-solving skills of business culture developed in networked operations by paying attention to socially sustainable growth?
What models are there for growth companies’ international activities?

Evaluation

Students can
- find, study, produce and evaluate critically multidisciplinary date in their field of expertise.
- solve demanding problems in research, development and innovation activities.
- evaluate and manage independently operations involving individuals and teams.
- be responsible for operations and develop them independently.
- evaluate different strategic approaches and justify their use in terms of management and development.
- work independently in the expert duties of their professional field or as entrepreneurs.
- communicate proficiently and systematically in their spoken and written native language and in one foreign language.