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Design entrepreneurship (5 cr)

Code: MU00DT25-3015

General information


Enrollment

04.11.2024 - 17.11.2024

Timing

13.01.2025 - 30.04.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

2 op

RDI portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

60 % Contact teaching, 40 % Distance learning

Unit

Department of Culture

Campus

Kouvola Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

20 - 21

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Bioproduct Design
  • Degree Programme in Graphic Design
  • Degree Programme in Fashion and Costume Design
  • Degree Programme in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design

Teachers

  • Frans Silvennoinen

Teacher in charge

Frans Silvennoinen

Groups

  • MPKV23KP
    Fashion and costume design, full-time studies
  • 05.03.2025 08:30 - 10:45, Muotoiluyrittäjyys MU00DT25-3015
  • 10.03.2025 10:00 - 14:00, Muotoiluyrittäjyys MU00DT25-3015
  • 18.03.2025 11:45 - 14:45, Muotoiluyrittäjyys MU00DT25-3015
  • 25.03.2025 11:45 - 14:45, Muotoiluyrittäjyys MU00DT25-3015
  • 02.04.2025 10:00 - 14:00, Muotoiluyrittäjyys MU00DT25-3015
  • 09.04.2025 10:00 - 14:00, Muotoiluyrittäjyys MU00DT25-3015
  • 14.04.2025 13:15 - 16:00, Muotoiluyrittäjyys MU00DT25-3015
  • 22.04.2025 11:45 - 14:15, Muotoiluyrittäjyys MU00DT25-3015

Objective

- You identify the significance of entrepreneurship as a career alternative in the field of design.
- You identify and assess the possibilities offered by the changing environment and various networks to develop your own entrepreneurship.
- You can commercialise and market your product or service idea. You identify the risks of entrepreneurship and can prepare for them.
- You can make the official announcements required to establish a company.

Content

- What skills and qualities does an entrepreneur need?
- How do you create a business idea?
- How is the idea turned into a marketable product, and how is it commercialised and marketed?
- What is a feasible business idea based on?
- How do you analyse the market?
- What kind of calculations are needed before starting entrepreneurship?
- How do you design customer-oriented marketing?
- What are the risks of entrepreneurship and how do you plan risk management?
- What practical actions are needed to start a business?

Opiskelumateriaali

Available in Learn platform.

Yksilölliset oppimisväylät

Xamk offers its students an opportunity to pursue studies flexibly to suit their various life situations. Students can choose between three learning routes: a learning route based on a working week, a learning route that accelerates the studies, and a work-based learning route.

A learning route based on a working week according to timetable.

TKI ja työelämäyhteistyö

Possible working life oriented excercise, in which assignment from external cooperation company.

Opiskelijan työmäärä

5cr is 135h where contact teaching is 70h and independence working is 65h

Further information

Learning tasks which are related to the subject will be carried out in the study module.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Studen's self-reflection and peer evaluation
Evaluation of learning exercise
Active participation