Idea Search and Entrepreneurial Opportunities
In this course, the students will develop skills in exploring entrepreneurial ideas and opportunities, an ability needed to initiate and create projects and start-ups with a potential to create value. They get training in how they could investigate, analyse and evaluate entrepreneurial ideas and opportunities in close relation to stakeholders and with a sustainable focus.
The course focus on entrepreneurial ideas and opportunities aimed at the industries blue innovation and health. The students get training in how these relies on markets, trends, stakeholders, resources and collaboration, and how these influencing factors could be assessed in terms of potential outcome value and sustainability.
The course will introduce the students to multidisciplinary collaboration, where the students are challenged to use their different skills and experiences in new ways to together identify wicked and complex ideas and opportunities, which have an authentic origin. The students will use the results from this course, the potential project or business ideas, as a basis for their later studies in the program.
Knowledge:
After the course, the student should have
- Advanced knowledge about entrepreneurial idea search and market assessment
- Advanced knowledge about factors influencing the feasibility of new projects or businesses
- Knowledge about how to utilise and combine insights from various disciplines when investigating complex ideas or opportunities
- Advanced knowledge about how different decisions and selection of contexts affect an idea or a project’s sustainability.
Skills:
After the course, the student should
- Be able to analyse and evaluate different options of an idea or opportunity’s to increase its feasibility to create value
- Be able to test, investigate and evaluate various approaches to initiate an idea or opportunity to enhance its sustainability
- Be able to utilise and obtain knowledge from various disciplines in the investigation and evaluation of entrepreneurial ideas or opportunities
General competences:
After the course, the student should be able to
- Collaborate and communicate with experts from different disciplines about complex ideas, opportunities or solutions
- Present and discuss various entrepreneurial ideas or opportunities with expert groups
- Reflect on own’s approach, collaboration and general experiences when working on entrepreneurial activities
Students need to investigate and contact potential stakeholders either through visits or other means of communication
There are no specific costs for this programme, other than the regular semester registration fee and costs related to acquiring course literature.
The course uses following teaching methods.
The students will work in teams with preselected ideas or opportunities. The students’ work will take place during five sperate weeks during the semester, where different teams work on different ideas, originating from authentic contexts, for instance innovation and research centres, public or private businesses, or the society at large. The groups’ works are presented at the end of the week for feedback, followed by reflection activities to enhance learning. Lectures and seminars will give students insights in relevant tools, perspectives and methods used in their work.
Portfolio with:
- group works (70%) Evaluation A-F
- an individual assignment (30%) Evaluation A-F
Mandatory participation during the five group work weeks.
