Basics of Entrepreneurship (3 cr)
Code: XX00DM05-3003
General information
Enrollment
17.04.2023 - 11.10.2023
Timing
23.10.2023 - 17.12.2023
Credits
3 op
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Teachers
- Jussi Yli-Hukkala
Student groups
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KONE23BBachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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KONE23ABachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Objective
The student
• Masters the main features of entrepreneurial competencies, recognises their own entrepreneurial competencies and attitudes, as well as recognises the importance of tolerance for ambiguity in their actions and interaction
• Can name and define the phases of setting up a business
• Recognises, from the perspective of their business idea, the key customers, and their role for profitable business
• Knows and can name entrepreneurship-related opportunities at SeAMK, and related support services.
Content
• Personal entrepreneurial competencies, such as self-knowledge and self-efficacy, motivation values, tolerance for ambiguity, and the importance of one’s own attitudes for choices
• Value production in different structures, such as companies and associations
• Basic concepts and revenue model of entrepreneurship and business activity, economic literacy, risk management
• Phases of business establishment
• Business plan as a tool for the structuration of a business idea
• Business activity as part of society, entrepreneurship as part of life
• Familiarization with the entrepreneurship services provided by SeAMK
Materials
Online material in moodle
Teaching methods
Lectures, group work, online studies
Student workload
- contact teaching and guided exercises 20 h
- independent study 60 h
Content scheduling
- entrepreneurship, meaning of entrepreneurship at the individual level
- business operations in the student's own field
- main principles of legislation regulating business operations
- presentation of the business concepts of SeAMK
- presentations of organizations supporting business operations
- entrepreneur profiles
Evaluation scale
1-5
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
The student can
- take responsibility for their tasks (acts in an entrepreneur-like way)
- recognise their entrepreneurial competences and realize the importance of tolerance for ambiguity in their own actions
- recognise the customer’s key role in the planning of business activity
- recognise, in the business plan, their own competence and the customers and key partners of their company
Assessment criteria, good (3)
In addition to the above things, the student
- can assess their own potential for acting as an entrepreneur
- can assess the chance of success of business operations and becoming an entrepreneur
- can recognise the partners and networks most important for their business
- is familiar with the knowledge base of business and the connection of responsibility with business
- knows the basics of business calculations
Assessment criteria, excellent (5)
In addition to the above things, the student
- can assess the challenges and opportunities of entrepreneurship
- can analyse competitors’ importance for business
- analyse and assess their strategic choices and is aware of the social importance of business activities
- recognises, from the perspective of their business plan, the key risks, masters business calculations, and the pricing of their product or service
Assessment methods and criteria
Online assignments and group assignment.