Entrepreneurship
Doelstellingen van dit vak
•To provide a bird’s- eye view on the role and functioning of entrepreneurship. •To understand the key components of successfully launching & growing high-impact ventures. •To understand how business opportunities are created and discovered. •To know the societal and economic roles of entrepreneurship. •To understand the processes that transform ideas into business, how opportunities are screened and selected, the virtues and fallacies of business planning, the financing of entrepreneurial ventures, and the managing of rapid growth.Voorwaarden
SSC1005 Introduction to Psychology or SSC1003 Theories of Social Order (SSC1001 Macro Sociology) or SSC1027 Principles of Economics.Aanbevolen literatuur
•Shane, S. A. 2002. The foundations of entrepreneurship. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Pub. (suggested) •Each student is to select and read a published biography of an entrepreneur. •E-Readers with papers & Reader with cases (You need to pay for your cases, approx. €30).Instructional format
Case lectures and tutorial group meetings. In the tutorial group meetings you explore the literature. In the case lectures you will explore how the scholarly insights can be used to inform the practice of (ambitious) entrepreneurship. The biography project invites you to link your learning to the life history of an entrepreneur.
Examination
Student evaluation will be based on
1) a take-home midterm test, consisting of open questions;
2) a final open-book test, also consisting of open questions; and
3) the biography paper.
SSC2055
Periode 2
28 okt 2024
20 dec 2024
Studiepunten:
5.0Coördinator:
Onderwijsmethode:
Lecture(s), PBL