Business and Entrepreneurship (3 cr)

Evaluation scale

1-5

Content scheduling

• Entrepreneurial motivation
• Entrepreneurial characteristics
• Contexts of entrepreneurial activity
• Opportunity recognition
• Opportunity assessment
• Acquiring resources
• Business models
• Entrepreneurial activities
• Leadership and social entrepreneurship
• Exits and outcomes

Objective

The student can
- describe the meaning and role of business activities in the society and in his/her field
- explain how entrepreneurship manifests on individual and organisational level
- describe entrepreneurial capabilities and assess his/her own entrepreneurial capabilities
- describe prerequisites of profitable business
- examine analytically the future outlook of business opportunities in his/her field

Content

- business as part of society and the global environment
- entrepreneurship as pattern of action and as business activities
- basic concepts of business, business logic
- business as a part of a career in one's own field

Materials

• Effective Small Business Management; Fifth edition. Norman M. Scarborough and Thomas W. Zimmerer. (1996): Prentice Hall. Inc. A Simon and Schuster Company

• Lecturer will provide the presentation slides in Moodle, other entrepreneurship books in SeAMK Library. Students are also advice to research for other information to support their learning and group assignments.r

Further materials and readings will be provided by the lecturer

Teaching methods

Lecturing
Class activities
Group or teamwork
Presentation

Student workload

There will be total of 81 hours.

- 24 hours for lecturing and in-class activities
- 51 hours for Individual or teams activities
- 6 hours for presentations

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

- Active participation and all assignments accepted. Learning outcomes must be achieved for acceptance.

Qualifications

None.