Entrepreneurship (3 cr)

Objective

After completing this course, students are able to:
- recognize the importance of entrepreneurship in the national economy
- evaluate the necessary personal skills and attitudes to be an entrepreneur
- identify the essential parts of the entrepreneurial process

Content

Entrepreneurship challenge
Business opportunities: business idea identification and development
Building the business plan: financial, risk and marketing considerations
Practices of creating a new enterprise

Course material

The study materials will be available on Learn.

RDI and work-related cooperation

Company visits and presentations
Entrepreneur interviews
Visitors from local companies

Timing of exams and assignments

Attending lectures and compulsory group work sessions.
Individual assignments.
Entrepreneur interview and company presentation.
Learning cafe presentation.

International cooperation

Meeting and working together with Finnish and other international students.

Student workload

Attending lectures and compulsory group work sessions 30 h
Individual assignments 20 hours
Entrepreneur interview and company presentation 20 h
Preparing for learning cafe presentations 11 h

Course part description

1) Role, potential and opportunities of entrepreneurship in digital society
2) Trends
3) Entrepreneurial ecosystem
4) Stakeholder theory, value creation and Business Model Canvas (BMC)
5) Starting up!
6) Sources of financing and ways of obtaining it
7) Operational processes of enterprises

Further information

More info can be obtained from Senior Lecturer Kirsi Soulamo kirsi.soulamo@xamk.fi

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

The evaluation is based on the following areas:
a. Students can systematically use professional vocabulary.
b. Students can look for information in the key information sources of the field.
d. Students can work together with customers, users and target groups.
f. Students can work as team members in a goal-oriented way.

The following assignments will be evaluated:

1) individual assignments 30 %
2) entrepreneur interview & company presentation (group work) 40 %
3) positive student activity during learning learning cafes and lectures 30 %

The more detailed evaluation criteria for the assignments will be published in the beginning of the course.