Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship (KBE)
Course content
The course aims at creating interest in starting new commercial
activities – via a company start-up or a new business area in an
existing company – to develop relevant skills and to train some
basic principles and methods within opportunity-driven creativity,
business modelling, business development, business planning and
business management.
The raison d’être of the course is that more graduates from higher
education within the natural sciences will start and succeed in
building new businesses, that they do this as a specific and
competent career choice, that the businesses are born with a high
level of ambition and core knowledge, and that the founders
efficiently exploit the industrial development and financing
opportunities available.
After completing the course, students are expected to have
Knowledge of
- Opportunities and risks in high-tech business formation
- Opportunity-driven creativity
- Business models and start-up strategies
- Business planning, market analysis and financing
- Business administration, management and law
- Patents and intellectual property rights
Skills to
- Develop business ideas based on business opportunities through opportunity-driven creativity
- Describe and develop business models including describing customer value propositions
- Analyse markets for technological products and services
- Determine capital requirements, establish cash flow projection and budgets on profit/loss, assets/liabilities
- Calculate an equity investment
- Specify management competence profiles
Competences to
- Independently identify and develop business opportunities in relation to ones own scientific subject
- Work in groups to establish a business
- Plan the establishment of a company through business planning in a high-tech area
- Identify business opportunities
The course takes on a hands-on approach and brings in experts who cover the different aspects of business creation in practice. Our pedagogical approach is highly interactive: Through small and large groups we will work on ideas for generating business value. As much of our knowledge will be created in class, it is crucial that students come well prepared for discussion and willing to participate. Interactive class assignments with high practical relevance will provide students with the ability to apply their new learning in practice.
See Absalon when the course is set up.
Academic qualifications equivalent to a BSc degree is
recommended.
Desire to use your scientific core competences in relation to
create value as an entrepreneur or as an employee.
The course will provide you with the toolbox to develop new business idea, based on your core competences.
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
-
Oral examination, 30 minutes
- Type of assessment details
- The oral examination is without preparation and based on the
submitted project work.
The student presents the project and draws a question for an immediate individual in-depth presentation. - Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners
Criteria for exam assessment
See Learning Outcome.
Single subject courses (day)
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 72
- Preparation
- 26
- Project work
- 100
- Exam Preparation
- 7
- Exam
- 1
- English
- 206
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- NFYA08007U
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
-
1 block
- Placement
- Block 1
- Schedulegroup
-
C
- Capacity
- No limit
- Studyboard
- Study Board of Mathematics and Computer Science
Contracting department
- Department of Computer Science
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Science
Course Coordinator
- Stephen Alstrup (9-7b3669747b7c7a7d78486c7136737d366c73)
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