Entry requirements

80 credits within the Master's Programme in Industrial Engineering and Management. Industrial Engineering and Management II: Organising, Production and Markets.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course students should be able to

• account for the entrepreneurial ecosystem for new technology-intensive businesses,
• analyse how new technology-intensive businesses are organised in the entrepreneurial ecosystem,
• analyse the access to capital for new technology-intensive businesses and reflect on how available skills, capital and other resources affect the development of entrepreneurial companies,
• critically discuss how technology-intensive entrepreneurship can be a force for change and impact in society,
• critically examine the culture and norms surrounding technology-intensive entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems,
• critically analyse different entrepreneurship theories, their built-in assumptions and sustainability implications.

Content

Technology-intensive entrepreneurship is often assumed to have as its main purpose the generation of economic gain. However, technology-intensive entrepreneurship can also be seen as a forward-looking, change-making activity where many entrepreneurs are driven by a desire to create good based on technology. This course develops the ability to analyse how an entrepreneurial activity is organised and in relation to the surrounding entrepreneurial ecosystem, such as competitors, complementary organisations, universities and research institutes, private and public financiers and the media, including the startup culture that these actors cultivate.

Instruction

Lectures, seminars and study visits.

Assessment

Written and oral presentation of assignments and also active participation in seminars and study visits.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding targeted pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.